Data Governance, Metadata Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Oversee documented data ownership and stewardship roles, responsibilities, and escalation processes.

• Create and sustain business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata standards, and unified definitions.

• Document key sources and facilitate Government resolutions regarding conflicting definitions.

• Maintain data lineage across source systems, transformations, data warehouses, analytical models, dashboards, and reports.

• Keep records of authorized uses, documenting permitted purposes, restrictions, decisions, and approvals.

• Outline retention policies and collaborate on implementation with Government records, legal, privacy, security, and technical representatives.

• Establish and uphold common identifiers, naming conventions, reference-data definitions, and cross-system mappings.

• Implement DAMA-DMBOK-aligned methods for data governance, metadata management, stewardship, data quality, and lifecycle management.

• Facilitate Government discussions on data definitions, access rights, ownership, authorized uses, and key sources.

• Prepare governance agendas, decision-making materials, meeting notes, action items, and decision logs.

• Monitor governance challenges, outstanding ownership queries, conflicting definitions, and corrective measures.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure metadata and lineage remain current as pipelines, schemas, datasets, and integrations evolve.

• Support uniform definitions and calculation criteria for KPIs, dashboards, analytical products, and self-service reporting.

• Organize governance records for datasets utilized in AI training, validation, testing, retrieval, and operational analysis.

• Ensure data-use limitations and Government-sanctioned access decisions are reflected in technical implementations.

• Link governance regulations with data-quality validation checks and documented evidence.

• Evaluate proposed data alterations for impacts on definitions, lineage, ownership, retention, authorized uses, and downstream consumers.

• Maintain searchable governance documentation and assist users in understanding available data and its limitations.

• Report on governance status, documentation deficiencies, unresolved decisions, and areas for improvement to program leadership and Government stakeholders.

• Offer guidance and knowledge transfer to data owners, stewards, analysts, and technical teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• A minimum of eight years of pertinent professional experience.

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, data management, business, or a related discipline, or an accepted equivalent.

• Experience in establishing or managing data ownership assignments.

• Proficiency in developing and maintaining business glossaries and data dictionaries.

• Experience in managing metadata and documenting data lineage.

• Familiarity with documenting or administering data retention requirements.

• Experience in maintaining approved-use records and controls.

• Capability to maintain common identifiers and ensure consistent data definitions across systems and workflows.

• Ability to implement DAMA-DMBOK-aligned data management practices.

• Competence in coordinating Government decisions regarding data definitions, access, and authoritative sources.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.

• Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections.

• Authorization to have submitted resumes and personal information considered for this and similar positions.