Quality Assurance Manager, War Data Platform

About the role

The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) of the Department of War is hiring a Quality Assurance Manager for its War Data Platform (WDP) within the Mission Execution Division. The manager acts as the senior technical authority and institutional leader for WDP's enterprise data-quality governance, automated quality controls and compliance oversight, ensuring mission-critical data is accurate, consistent, reliable, available and fully traceable. The position is covered by the Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo), is paid on the NH-0343-IV plan (GS-14/15 equivalent) at $139,395-$197,200, and closes on 23 October 2026.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and lead enterprise governance, policy and compliance oversight across the platform ecosystem.
• Develop and enforce data quality standards, data governance frameworks and performance measurement architectures.
• Lead, mentor and direct a cross-functional quality team.
• Design and maintain automated quality controls, integrity validations and circuit breakers in the cloud-based system-of-systems architecture.
• Embed quality, security and service-management practices into CI/CD pipelines and platform engineering.
• Set up monitoring and alerting for data ingestion pipelines, microservices, interfaces and application performance.
• Track SLAs, first-call resolution, aging reports, queue data, escalation trends and system health, and report on them.
• Investigate data quality, reliability and performance anomalies and enforce corrective actions.
• Run recurring quality evaluations, compliance reviews and audit-readiness assessments.
• Supervise contractors and vendors against SLAs, Performance Work Statements and milestones, and document performance issues for formal evaluations.
• Report to senior leaders, military departments, DISA, CDAO, industry partners, OIG and GAO, and present quality reports, executive briefings and policy recommendations.

Required profile

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Top Secret/SCI security clearance required.
• Suitable for federal employment; a three-year trial period may be required if not previously completed.
• May require work outside normal hours and occasional travel by military or commercial aircraft.
• Subject to pre-employment and random drug testing; recruitment, relocation or retention incentives may be authorized.