Data Governance & Metadata Lead

DecisionPoint seeks a Data Governance & Metadata Lead to establish and maintain consistent data ownership, definitions, metadata, lineage, approved-use records, retention rules, and common identifiers supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program.

This senior-level position will apply DAMA-DMBOK-aligned practices to help Government stakeholders understand, manage, and appropriately use mission data across AI integration, data management, data warehouse, analytics, and reporting activities.

The Data Governance & Metadata Lead will coordinate with Government data owners, mission representatives, data engineers, AI/ML personnel, business analysts, cybersecurity teams, and reporting specialists. The lead will maintain governance records, facilitate decisions on definitions and access, document authoritative sources, and track the implementation of Government-approved decisions.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

The Data Governance & Metadata Lead will:

• Maintain documented data ownership and stewardship assignments, responsibilities, and escalation paths.

• Develop and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata standards, and common definitions.

• Document authoritative sources and coordinate Government decisions when systems or stakeholders use conflicting definitions.

• Maintain data lineage showing how information moves through source systems, transformations, warehouses, analytical models, dashboards, and reports.

• Maintain approved-use records documenting authorized purposes, restrictions, decisions, and supporting approvals.

• Document retention rules and coordinate their implementation with Government records, legal, privacy, security, and technical representatives, as applicable.

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

• Apply DAMA-DMBOK-aligned practices to data governance, metadata management, stewardship, data quality, and lifecycle management.

• Facilitate Government decisions on data definitions, access, ownership, approved uses, and authoritative sources.

• Prepare governance agendas, decision materials, meeting records, action items, and decision logs.

• Track governance issues, unresolved ownership questions, conflicting definitions, and corrective actions.

• Coordinate with engineering teams to keep metadata and lineage current as pipelines, schemas, datasets, and integrations change.

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

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

• Help ensure data-use restrictions and Government-approved access decisions are reflected in technical implementation.

• Work with data quality and testing personnel to connect governance rules with validation checks and documented evidence.

• Assess proposed data changes for effects on definitions, lineage, ownership, retention, approved uses, and downstream consumers.

• Maintain searchable governance documentation and support user understanding of available data and its limitations.

• Report governance status, documentation gaps, unresolved decisions, and improvement priorities to program leadership and Government stakeholders.

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

Required Qualifications

The following must-have qualifications are drawn from the supplied position requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Minimum of eight years of…