Smart Data Systems Engineer at Peraton

The role is highly domain-specific to the Intelligence Community, focused on data tagging, metadata, and data integrity in a classified cloud environment — it does not map cleanly to a single SOC code. 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) was chosen as the best fit given the systems engineering, data flow analysis, and compliance focus; 15-1299 is noted as an alternative given the 'Smart Data Systems Engineer' framing.

The experience requirement is unusually high: a Bachelor's degree plus 20 years of systems engineering experience is the baseline, with a high school diploma/GED plus 24 years also acceptable. A Master's or PhD substitutes for up to 2 years. Because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted in lieu of a degree, the degree requirement is set to None.

An active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is a hard gate explicitly stated in the required qualifications.

The posting specifies 1880 hours of support per year (slightly under a standard full-time schedule) and work is performed on-site at a customer location — this is not a remote role.

Skills listed are largely conceptual/process-oriented rather than named technologies; the JD names no specific software tools, platforms, or programming languages beyond general references to 'the Cloud' and 'Smart Data tags.' The skills extracted reflect the concrete analytical capabilities the JD gates on.

Policy and compliance experience is explicitly called 'highly desired' in the Desired section.

Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data quality analysis, cloud data management, root cause analysis, metadata management.

Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.