Data Curation
US$160,000 – US$210,000 / yr base salary
Posted 27 Jul 2026
Advertised as “Data Curation Lead”
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- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
| Base salary | US$160,000 – US$210,000 / yr |
|---|
Study levelBachelor's
Position Title: Data Curation Lead
Location: National Capital Region
Category: Contingent
Schedule (FT/PT): FT
Travel Required: NA
Shift: Day
Remote Type: Hybrid
Clearance required: Active Secret Clearance required
Division: Aviation
Salary: $160,000-$210,000
***THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD***
Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of Defense (DoD) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!
Description: Perform data curation, metadata tagging, and data quality preparation activities on CSDR submission data in support of the CSDR data ingestion environment maintained by the Government. The objective is to ensure that CSDR submissions — the Cost Data Report (Flexfile and 1921 series), the Quantity Data Report, the Technical Data Report, the SRDR, and the M&R, and the CBDR — are properly tagged, normalized, and quality-checked as they move from the submission state into the downstream cost estimating analytical environment. This task is performed as recurring data stewardship in support of the CSDR mission and is not pipeline development.
Responsibilities:
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Review CSDR submissions for data quality issues including missing values, internal inconsistencies, mis-aligned WBS elements, inflation/escalation treatment, and other issues that would impede downstream analytical use.
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Apply normalization treatments as directed by the AFCAA technical lead, including WBS alignment to the CADE Standard WBS, Cost Element Structure (CES) standardization, and inflation/price-escalation adjustments.
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Document each cleansing and normalization action taken on each submission such that the original-submitted data and the curated data remain distinguishable and traceable.
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Apply metadata tags to CSDR submissions consistent with the AFCAA-approved metadata schema, including programmatic identifiers (program, contract, contractor, contract line item, reporting period, submission type, ACAT level, commodity area, and other approved tags).