Data Governance, Metadata Scientist

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

📋 Description

• Create and uphold metadata governance frameworks, ensuring adherence to DoD data management policies and compatibility with the Data Catalog.

• Design automated metadata tagging processes to enhance data discoverability, classification, and lineage tracking within the Common Intelligence Picture (CIP) platform.

• Execute and oversee data governance workflows, ensuring alignment with OpenLineage, Unity Catalog, and GIS metadata standards.

• Prepare the Metadata & Data Governance Compliance Report, which outlines lineage tracking, classification policies, and security improvements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Information Management, GIS, or a related discipline, or five (5) years of relevant experience in data governance, metadata management, or geospatial data integration.

• Proficiency in developing, implementing, and sustaining data governance frameworks, ensuring metadata consistency, lineage tracking, and interoperability among Data Lake, ESRI Kubernetes environments, and external data sources.

• Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in metadata management, data lineage tracking (Unity Catalog/OpenLineage), schema alignment, and governance best practices.

• In-depth knowledge of geospatial data standards, data cataloging, and compliance with DoD metadata policies is essential.

• Proven experience in implementing metadata governance frameworks for both structured and unstructured data within cloud-based ecosystems.

• Expertise in tracking data lineage and ensuring synchronization of metadata across a Data Catalog, ESRI Kubernetes, and enterprise metadata repositories.

• Experience with OpenLineage, Apache Atlas, or similar tools for managing metadata and data lineage.

• Commitment to enforcing compliance with DoD metadata policies and NSG tradecraft standards for geospatial datasets.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely

• Remote work options