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 relevant professional experience. 

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, data management, business, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent. 

• Experience establishing or maintaining data ownership assignments. 

• Experience developing and maintaining business glossaries and data dictionaries. 

• Experience managing metadata and documenting data lineage. 

• Experience documenting or administering data retention requirements. 

• Experience maintaining approved-use records and controls. 

• Ability to maintain common identifiers and consistent data definitions across systems and workflows. 

• Ability to apply DAMA-DMBOK-aligned data management practices. 

• Ability to coordinate Government decisions on data definitions, access, and authoritative sources. 

No specific DoD 8570 baseline certification is proposed solely for the data governance duties of this position. 

Preferred Qualifications 

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required: 

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) at the Practitioner or Master level. 

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense data governance initiatives. 

• Experience with data catalogs, metadata repositories, business glossaries, or lineage platforms. 

• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica, Alation, or comparable governance tools. 

• Experience supporting data warehouses, enterprise analytics, AI initiatives, or self-service reporting. 

• Familiarity with master data management, reference data, common identifiers, and data standardization. 

• Experience coordinating data governance councils, stewardship groups, or cross-functional decision forums. 

• Familiarity with controlled data environments, records management, privacy requirements, and access governance. 

• Experience linking governance rules to automated data-quality checks and test evidence. 

• Strong facilitation, analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills. 

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
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