Senior Data Governance & Quality Analyst
Listed on 2026-06-27
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Information Security, Data Security
Senior Data Governance & Quality Analyst
Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Senior Data Governance & Quality Analyst e, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.
The Advana team is seeking a Senior Data Governance & Quality Analyst to join their program. Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoD military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading development and execution of enterprise data governance and quality operations supporting Advana across multi-classification enclaves.
- Building governance policies, stewardship standards, and access control frameworks while coordinating with platform engineers, cybersecurity officers, and mission analysts to maintain accurate metadata, asset documentation, and catalog traceability using Collibra, Apache Atlas, Databricks Unity Catalog, and Service Now CMDB integrations.
- Developing data quality procedures by implementing profiling scripts, anomaly detection models, field-level validation rules, lineage tracking checks, and completeness scoring mechanisms.
- Managing data-sharing agreement activities by documenting stewardship responsibilities, classification markings, cross-domain transfer requirements, and consumption constraints.
- Designing and delivering governance training programs covering compliance workflows, catalog practices, approved ingestion pathways, and quality expectations.
- Conducting governance effectiveness reviews by measuring rule adoption rates, remediation throughput, catalog freshness metrics, and user access review completion.
- Collaborating with data operations and data engineering teams to embed governance controls into pipelines, monitoring systems, and enclave-specific data storage patterns.
- Producing documentation packages, governance dashboards, quality status reports, risk summaries, and policy updates that improve mission readiness and reinforce trust in Advana data assets.
What You'll Need to Succeed:
- Technical training, certifications, or degree
- 10+ years of related experience
- Certification: IAT II (CompTIA Security+ CE, CompTIA CySA+, CompTIA Cloud+, Cisco CCNA Security, GIAC GSEC, GIAC GCED, or ISC² SSCP)
- Security clearance level: TS/SCI
GDIT is your place. At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities. Support:
An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals. Rewards:
Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off. Community:
Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.
Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly
Hours:
40
Travel Required:
None
Telecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA VA Falls Church
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
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