Data Operations Technical Lead at Agile Defense
Tampa
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Jun 29, 2026
Tampa
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A technical lead role focused on building and managing data infrastructure in support of Special Operations Forces (SOF) enterprise customers. Day-to-day work centers on designing ETL/ELT pipelines, real-time streaming solutions, data models, and quality controls, while also mentoring junior engineers. The position suits an experienced data or software engineer with an active TS/SCI clearance and a background in SOF-environment digital projects.
Senior level · 5+ years · Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL · TS/SCI clearance
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $133,290 (middle half $97,710–$170,290).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
TS/SCI clearance is an explicit hard gate — the posting states 'Must Have Clearance to Start' and lists it under Required Skills.
The role is titled 'Technical Lead' with no seniority modifier; the 5+ years requirement and scope (mentoring junior engineers, owning data infrastructure for SOF Enterprise) support a Senior classification.
SOC is Medium confidence: the role is primarily about designing and building data pipelines and infrastructure (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects / Data Engineers), but the software-engineering framing and real-time streaming development also fit 15-1252 Software Developers.
Degree requirement is None: the JD explicitly accepts equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree ('each year of work experience may be substituted for each year of education required').
Kafka, Flink, and Spark Streaming are listed together as interchangeable examples ('tools like…') for the real-time streaming requirement — emitted as one skill with alternatives.
SOF-domain experience (managing digital projects in support of SOF Enterprise customers, 5+ years) is listed under Required Skills and treated as a hard gate.
SOF agile development, SOF Data Operations processes, and SOF digital support request management are listed under Preferred Skills — marked accordingly.
No compensation information is provided in the posting.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): SOF agile development, SOF Data Operations.
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.
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