Data Governance Lead

Peregrine Advisors is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We work across the full lifecycle—from strategy and governance through architecture, engineering, analytics, AI, visualization, and training—for clients including the SEC, PCAOB, DDOT, and DCAA.

Our clients describe our support as “absolutely excellent” and our people as “instrumental to organization’s success.” Winner of the United Nations COP
27 Datathon, our work has earned all Exceptional CPARS ratings, SEC Chair’s Awards, the SEC Vision Award, and recognition from FDA leadership.

We are also built differently. Peregrine is the first and only social enterprise organized as a Benefit Corporation and SBA 8(a) company focused on AI and data for government. We believe business success should create client value, social value, and opportunity for our people.

As we enter our next stage of growth, we need dependable, motivated, and skilled people who have a combination of intellectual curiosity and intellectual courage. With new clients, larger programs, and expanding responsibilities, the people joining Peregrine now will have the opportunity to help shape the company we become.

People first. Ownership always.

We solve problems through people, process, and technology—in that order. Technology matters, but people make transformation happen. That principle defines our culture. Trust and motivation are the foundational pillars of delivery on which our skills stand. We hire people we can trust, who care deeply about what they do, take ownership, learn quickly, help one another, and refuse to walk past a problem because it belongs to someone else.

At Peregrine, you are not joining simply to fill a position. You are joining a team, taking ownership of a mission, and helping build a company. If that excites you, we should talk.

At Peregrine Advisors, you will drive enterprise-level data governance for a federal agency, built on Microsoft Purview, and set the policies and standards behind the management, quality, and security of its data. But we hire people, not seats. As the work evolves, you will move to where the hardest problems are.

This is a hybrid work arrangement based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and the commuting cadence varies by assignment.

The initial engagement requires United States citizenship and the ability to obtain a Public Trust determination.

• Lead the planning and implementation of data governance initiatives across the organization.
• Configure and administer Microsoft Purview for data cataloging, discovery, classification, and continuous governance.
• Develop, implement, and maintain the data governance policies, standards, and procedures.
• Oversee the management of the data catalog, business glossary, data classification, and data lineage.
• Work with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and cross-functional teams to strengthen data quality and governance practice.
• Establish clear processes for data ownership, stewardship, and accountability.
• Make data easy to discover and understand across cloud and on-premises sources.
• Track governance adoption metrics and find opportunities to improve before anyone asks.
• Provide leadership and strategic guidance on data governance practice.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation, governance frameworks, and process guidelines.
• Engage business stakeholders and facilitate governance discussions and workshops through to decisions.

You leave the organization with governance that people use: a catalog they trust, owners who know what they own, and standards that protect the quality and security of the data as it changes.

• 7+ years of data governance or data management…