Data Governance Specialist

Qualifications

• 2 years with BS/BA; 0 years with MS/MA; 6 years with no degree
• Clearance:
  Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Candidate must meet ONE of the following:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field; OR
  • Relevant DoD/military training (example: Army Data Literacy Course); OR
  • Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: CompTIA Data+, Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate, DAMA CDMP).
• Required experience and skills:
  • Experience in data governance, data stewardship, data management, or related roles supporting enterprise data programs.
  • Practical experience maintaining metadata catalogs, data dictionaries, lineage, and reference data.
  • Proficiency with governance/catalog tools or platforms, and familiarity with data quality frameworks and dashboarding.
  • Strong documentation skills, attention to detail, and ability to produce audit‑quality evidence and governance reports.
  • Ability to coordinate across technical and business stakeholders to resolve data quality issues and enforce governance standards.
• Desired:
  • Prior DoD/ARNG or large‑enterprise data governance experience.
  • Familiarity with RMF/privacy evidence needs, data classification controls, and integration of governance with analytics and security workflows.
  • Experience with automation for metadata harvesting, data quality testing, or governance workflow tooling.

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Data Governance Specialist to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard.

• Maintain and update data catalogs, business glossaries, metadata repositories, and classification tags to ensure authoritative metadata across enterprise datasets.
• Execute routine data validation and quality checks; monitor data quality dashboards and document issues impacting accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Apply governance standards, naming conventions, reference data updates, and schema/documentation per approved policies and procedures.
• Support stewardship processes by coordinating with data stewards, system owners, and analytics teams to clarify business rules, data lineage, and source definitions.
• Track governance workflows, prepare meeting materials, capture minutes and action items, and maintain evidence of governance activities for auditability.
• Produce routine governance reports, data quality summaries, and metadata status updates for program leadership and stakeholders.
• Support compliance activities by maintaining lineage diagrams, documenting data‑handling requirements, and preserving RMF/privacy evidence as required.
• Contribute to process improvement: refine governance documentation, update procedures, and assist adoption of governance tools and automation to improve data integrity and availability.