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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive knowledge of defense acquisition systems, budgeting processes, and contracting practices, with strong analytical skills to manage and interpret complex datasets. Capable of effectively communicating technical concepts to diverse stakeholders and translating user needs into actionable requirements.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Defense Acquisition System KnowledgeBudgeting and Contracting ExperienceAnalytical Skills with Large DatasetsStrong Written Communication SkillsActive Security Clearance
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Hard Skills
Defense AcquisitionBudgetingContractingData AnalysisSQLPythonExcelData DocumentationRequirements TranslationData Provenance
Soft Skills
CommunicationAnalytical ThinkingAdaptabilityTrust BuildingCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
DoW Data SystemsAI Evaluation ToolsData Management Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
DAWIA CertificationDAU Certification
Industry Keywords
PPBEJCIDSDASColors of MoneyContract TypesFunding MovementGovernment ContractingDefense IndustryMilitary ServiceFFRDC
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesPythonSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Serve as the authority on defense data sources and their contents, limitations, and reporting practices
- Explain reporting lags, coverage gaps, omitted or restricted data, inconsistent identifiers, and disagreements among official sources
- Connect budget requests to funded programs, executing contracts, and managing organizations
- Identify technically valid data and results that do not reflect acquisition, budgeting, or contracting realities
- Advise product and engineering teams on interpreting and presenting source data
- Write test questions and review AI-generated answers for acquisition-grade accuracy
- Join customer conversations, explain data provenance and caveats, and build trust with government and industry users
- Capture and encode subject-matter-expert knowledge to improve systems
- Document source characteristics, omissions, and limitations for daily team use
- Help shape product features by translating acquisition workflows and user questions into requirements
Requirements
What you’ll need- 6+ years in defense acquisition, budgeting, or contracting, including program office, comptroller/financial management, contracting, or PPBE experience as a government employee or contractor
- Complete working knowledge of the defense acquisition system, including requirements (JCIDS), funding (PPBE), and management (DAS)
- Fluency in appropriations, colors of money, program elements, budget line items, justification exhibits (R-1, P-1, J-books), and movement of funds from request to obligation
- Understanding of contracting vehicles, contract types, awards, modifications, and reporting
- Deep familiarity with DoW data systems of record behind acquisition, budget, contracts, or related domains, including omissions, reporting lags, and conflicts
- Strong analytical skills and hands-on experience with large, messy datasets in Excel or similar tools
- Ability to explain complex concepts plainly to engineers, customers, and executives
- Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete data
- Strong written communication and documentation skills
- DAWIA / DAU certification is nice to have
- Experience at DoD/DoW, a military service, DIU, defense-focused consultancy, or FFRDC is nice to have
- Familiarity with LLMs, retrieval, or evaluating AI-generated answers is nice to have
- Experience querying data with SQL or Python is nice to have
- Active security clearance is nice to have
- Must be able to work in an in-person and/or hybrid capacity from the Arlington, VA office
- Must meet U.S. export-control work authorization requirements
Benefits
Comp & perks- Flexible schedule
- Work from home when needed
- Sizeable equity
- Flexible vacation time
- Full health, dental, and vision insurance