Cyber Effects · Work role code 654
Data Pipeline Specialist
Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and processes that allow for the large-scale collection, storage, transformation, and distribution of data; ensures that data is managed efficiently, securely, and is readily available for analysis and decision-making.
From DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25)
Tasks
From DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25), in the tool's order, with the DCWF KSAT id
Free · DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25)- 400Analyze and define data requirements and specifications.Unassigned
- 400AImplement data management standards, requirements, and specifications.Unassigned
- 467Consult with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software.Unassigned
- 518Develop and document systems administration standard operating procedures.Unassigned
- 520BDevelop and implement data mining and data warehousing programs.Unassigned
- 702Manage the compilation, cataloging, caching, distribution, and retrieval of data.Unassigned
- 740Perform backup and recovery of databases to ensure data integrity.Unassigned
- 811Provide ongoing optimization and problem solving support.Unassigned
- 5030Analyze data sources to provide actionable recommendations.Unassigned
- 5220Develop and facilitate data-gathering methods.Unassigned
- 5270Develop strategic insights from large data sets.Unassigned
- 5440Present data in creative formats.Unassigned
- 5640Utilize technical documentation or resources to implement a new mathematical, data science, or computer science method.Unassigned
- 6190Effectively allocate storage capacity in the design of data management systems.Unassigned
- 6780Utilize different programming languages to write code, open files, read files, and write output to different files.Unassigned
- 8066Develop and review cyberspace operations TTPs for integration into strategic, operational and tactical levels of planning.Unassigned
- 8161Provide and maintain documentation for TTPs as inputs to training programs.Unassigned
Knowledge
From DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25), in the tool's order, with the DCWF KSAT id
Free · DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25)- 20Knowledge of complex data structures.Unassigned
- 21Knowledge of computer algorithms.Unassigned
- 22* Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.Core
- 28Knowledge of data administration and data standardization policies and standards.Unassigned
- 29Knowledge of data backup, types of backups (e.g., full, incremental), and recovery concepts and tools.Unassigned
- 31Knowledge of data mining and data warehousing principles.Unassigned
- 32Knowledge of database management systems, query languages, table relationships, and views.Unassigned
- 90Knowledge of operating systems.Unassigned
- 102Knowledge of programming language structures and logic.Unassigned
- 104Knowledge of query languages such as SQL (structured query language).Unassigned
- 108* Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).Core
- 120Knowledge of sources, characteristics, and uses of the organization’s data assets.Unassigned
- 127Knowledge of systems administration concepts.Unassigned
- 135Knowledge of the capabilities and functionality associated with various technologies for organizing and managing information (e.g., databases, bookmarking engines).Unassigned
- 139Knowledge of the common networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP), services (e.g., web, mail, Domain Name Server), and how they interact to provide network communications.Unassigned
- 287Knowledge of file system implementations (e.g., New Technology File System [NTFS], File Allocation Table [FAT], Extended File System [EXT]).Unassigned
- 342Knowledge of command-line tools (e.g., mkdir, mv, ls, passwd, grep).Unassigned
- 344Knowledge of virtualization technologies and virtual machine development and maintenance.Unassigned
- 904Knowledge of interpreted and compiled computer languages.Unassigned
- 910Knowledge of database theory.Unassigned
- 978AKnowledge of root cause analysis techniques.Unassigned
- 1128AKnowledge of database access application programming interfaces (APIs) (e.g., Java Database Connectivity [JDBC]).Unassigned
- 1157* Knowledge of national and international laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity.Core
- 1158* Knowledge of cybersecurity principles.Core
- 1159* Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.Core
- 3564Knowledge of the data flow from collection origin to repositories and tools.Unassigned
- 6200Knowledge of applications that can log errors, exceptions, and application faults and logging.Unassigned
- 6300Knowledge of how to utilize Hadoop, Java, Python, SQL, Hive, and PIG to explore data.Unassigned
- 6311Knowledge of machine learning theory and principles.Unassigned
- 6900* Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.Core
- 6935* Knowledge of cloud computing service models Software as Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).Core
- 6938* Knowledge of cloud computing deployment models in private, public, and hybrid environment and the difference between on-premises and off-premises environments.Core
- 7111* Knowledge of Zero Trust Security Model Principles.Core
- 7188Knowledge of collection, transportation, and storage of data from multiple sources.Unassigned
- 7191Knowledge of distributed computing, parallel computation, batch and stream processing.Unassigned
- 7194Knowledge of layout and format of a Unified Modeling Language diagramUnassigned
- 7207Knowledge of the facilitation of analytics, data processing and feature engineering.Unassigned
Skills
From DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25), in the tool's order, with the DCWF KSAT id
Free · DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25)- 171ASkill in correcting physical and technical problems that impact system/server performance.Unassigned
- 174Skill in creating programs that validate and process multiple inputs including command line arguments, environmental variables, and input streams.Unassigned
- 186Skill in developing data dictionaries.Unassigned
- 187Skill in developing data models.Unassigned
- 194Skill in diagnosing connectivity problems.Unassigned
- 201Skill in generating queries and reports.Unassigned
- 202ASkill in identifying and anticipating system/server performance, availability, capacity, or configuration problems.Unassigned
- 208Skill in maintaining databases.Unassigned
- 211ASkill in monitoring and optimizing system/server performance.Unassigned
- 213Skill in optimizing database performance.Unassigned
- 386Skill in using virtual machines.Unassigned
- 1116Skill in identifying common encoding techniques (e.g., Exclusive Disjunction [XOR], American Standard Code for Information Interchange [ASCII], Unicode, Base64, Uuencode, Uniform Resource Locator [URL] encode).Unassigned
- 3689Skill in applying various analytical methods, tools, and techniques (e.g., competing hypotheses; chain of reasoning; scenario methods; denial and deception detection; high impact-low probability; network/association or link analysis; Bayesian, Delphi, and Pattern analyses).Unassigned
- 3722Skill in data mining techniques (e.g., searching file systems) and analysis.Unassigned
- 3859Skill in reading, interpreting, writing, modifying, and executing simple scripts (e.g., PERL, VBS) on Windows and Unix systems (e.g., those that perform tasks like parsing large data files, automating manual tasks, and fetching/processing remote data).Unassigned
- 6520Skill in data pre-processing (e.g., imputation, dimensionality reduction, normalization, transformation, extraction, filtering, smoothing).Unassigned
- 6610Skill in performing format conversions to create a standard representation of the data.Unassigned
- 6690Skill in transformation analytics (e.g., aggregation, enrichment, processing).Unassigned
- 6720Skill in using data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, STATA SAS, SPSS).Unassigned
- 6730Skill in using data mapping tools.Unassigned
- 6760Skill in writing scripts using R, Python, PIG, HIVE, SQL, etc.Unassigned
- 7212Skill in connecting to, backing up, restoring, and moving data from databases.Unassigned
Abilities
From DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25), in the tool's order, with the DCWF KSAT id
Free · DoD DCWF Tool v5.3 (2026-09-25)- 271BAbility to operate common network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup).Unassigned
- 4237Ability to develop dashboards to better visualize dataUnassigned
- 6180Ability to use data visualization tools (e.g., Flare, HighCharts, AmCharts, D3.js, Processing, Google Visualization API, Tableau, Raphael.js).Unassigned
- 7222Ability to shape data in order to develop results.Unassigned
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