Acts independently in a senior technical role providing hands-on technical leadership, platform oversight, and supervisory guidance for the agency’s enterprise data operations environment; ensures reliable execution of data pipelines, stable platform operations, and secure/NIST‑aligned data handling practices across the organization; supervises data engineers, ETL specialists, support analysts, and operational staff who maintain data pipelines, ingestion processes, data quality checks, monitoring, and platform‑level support functions; responsible for ensuring data availability, performance, operational reliability, and compliance. Cross-Functional Coordination & Incident Management-Collaborates with Data Governance & Compliance, Data Analytics & BI, Application Development, and Infrastructure teams to support integrated workflows; Serves as an escalation point for operational incidents affecting data availability, ingestion pipelines, or platform stability; Communicates operational impacts, timelines, and resolutions to stakeholders and leadership using services such as Azure monitoring and Log analytics.