Data Quality / Governance Analyst

DecisionPoint Corporation; Île-de-France; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking a Data Quality / Governance Analyst to support Task 3 governance, accuracy, and cross-system alignment in a large federal environment aligned with DoD standards. The role ensures data sources are validated, dictionaries maintained, and KPIs consistent across tasks.

The analyst will collaborate with dashboard teams, data owners, and PMO leadership to sustain enterprise data quality, lineage, and reporting. This position is fully remote.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information management, data analytics, information systems, or related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in data governance, data quality, metadata management, or related field.
• Experience maintaining data dictionaries, metadata rules, and standardized data fields.
• Experience performing data validation, profiling, or cleansing.

Responsibilities

• Validate Task 3 data sources and assess accuracy, completeness, and reliability.
• Maintain data dictionaries, metadata rules, tagging standards, and classification definitions.
• Ensure consistency of KPIs, metrics, and datasets across Tasks 2 and 3.
• Perform data reconciliation, profiling, cleansing, and quality checks.
• Support cross-task data harmonization and integration workflows.
• Identify data anomalies, gaps, or inconsistencies and recommend remediation steps.
• Collaborate with dashboard teams, analysts, and system owners to align data definitions.
• Maintain documentation for data governance processes, metadata rules, and data lineage.
• Track source system changes, schema updates, and data dependency impacts.
• Support adherence to federal data governance standards and reporting requirements.
• Contribute to dashboard specifications, metric definitions, and reporting standardization under Data COE-owned standards.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Written communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Management / Data Analytics / Information Systems

Tools

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

DAX

Job description

DecisionPoint seeks a Data Quality / Governance Analyst to support Task 3 data governance, accuracy, and cross-system alignment for a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment.

This role validates data sources, maintains metadata rules and data dictionaries, supports tagging standards, and performs continuous quality checks to ensure accurate reporting, dashboards, and analytics.

The Data Quality / Governance Analyst collaborates closely with Task 2 and Task 3 reporting teams, dashboard developers, data owners, and PMO leadership to maintain consistent, reliable, and governable enterprise data.

This position is fully remote.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Validate Task 3 data sources and assess accuracy, completeness, and reliability.
• Maintain data dictionaries, metadata rules, tagging standards, and classification definitions.
• Ensure consistency of KPIs, metrics, and datasets across Tasks 2 and 3.
• Perform data reconciliation, profiling, cleansing, and quality checks.
• Support cross-task data harmonization and integration workflows.
• Identify data anomalies, gaps, or inconsistencies and recommend remediation steps.
• Collaborate with dashboard teams, analysts, and system owners to align data definitions.
• Maintain documentation for data governance processes, metadata rules, and data lineage.
• Track source system changes, schema updates, and data dependency impacts.
• Support adherence to federal data governance standards and reporting requirements.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of dashboard specifications, metric definitions, and reporting standardization under Data COE-owned standards.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in data governance, data quality, metadata management, or a directly related data management discipline.
• Experience maintaining data dictionaries, metadata rules, and standardized data fields.
• Experience performing data validation, profiling, or cleansing.
• Demonstrated experience reconciling conflicting metrics across independent source systems, including diagnosing differences in definition, population/filter logic, refresh timing, and transformation logic.
• Experience supporting cross-team or cross-system data harmonization efforts.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Analytical and problem-solving ability, particularly in diagnosing the root cause of data discrepancies.
• Clear written communication, including the ability to produce standards documentation, data dictionary entries, and remediation write-ups that non-technical stakeholders can act on.

Technical Knowledge (Required)

• Understanding of data governance frameworks, data quality principles, and metadata standards.
• Proficiency with Excel, SQL, or similar tools for data validation and analysis.
• Familiarity with KPI frameworks and structured metric definitions.
• Working knowledge of PII handling and Privacy Act requirements as applied to reporting, including aggregation practices and small-cell suppression thresholds for sensitive population data.

Technical Knowledge (Preferred)

• Experience with Power BI, including Power Query/M and DAX; Tableau, Grafana, or similar BI tools.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms or ETL/ELT tools.
• Familiarity with data catalog or governance tooling.
• Familiarity with the DoD Data Strategy (VAULTIS).

Certifications (preferred)

• ITIL v4 Foundation
• Data governance or data management certifications

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affiant Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affiant Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affiant 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.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
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