Data Catalog Architect for Governance & Metadata

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist to support AO Courts modernization by implementing metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage across the CMM program.

You will configure governance platforms, establish metadata standards, capture metadata, and enable enterprise data discovery for self-service access. You will collaborate with Data Governance Analysts, Data Quality Analysts, Data Architects, Data Stewards, and

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years of general experience in information systems and 7+ years of specialized experience.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting enterprise data governance programs.
• Experience translating governance policy into practical operational processes in delivery environments.
• Experience governing high-sensitivity or regulated data with clear compliance expectations.
• Experience with access management and operationalizing privacy requirements.
• Experience partnering with security, governance, and engineering teams to implement compliant data sharing.
• Strong process mapping, documentation, and business analysis skills.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business and technical teams.
• Ability to translate policy and governance requirements into clear, actionable operational procedures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including development of training and change management materials.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage capabilities.
• Configure, administer, and maintain data governance, catalog, metadata, and lineage platforms.
• Establish metadata standards, structures, naming conventions, and management practices.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise and domain-level business glossary.
• Capture and maintain business, technical, operational, and governance metadata.
• Establish relationships between data assets, business terms, data elements, systems, applications, reports, and data products.
• Implement and maintain end-to-end data lineage across critical data assets and data flows.
• Integrate metadata from source systems, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI platforms, and other data environments.
• Configure metadata ingestion, scanning, classification, tagging, and discovery capabilities.
• Support automated metadata harvesting and synchronization where appropriate.
• Implement data ownership, stewardship, certification, and approval workflows within governance platforms.
• Support onboarding new data sources and systems into the data catalog, including configuration of automated metadata harvesting and scanning.
• Configure integrations between the data catalog/metadata platform and other governance, data quality, and IT systems.
• Ensure metadata accurately reflects data definitions, classifications, ownership, sensitivity, retention, and other governance attributes.
• Partner with Data Governance Analysts, Data Quality Analysts, Data Architects, Data Stewards, and business stakeholders to maintain trusted metadata.
• Support data discovery and self-service data access for authorized users.
• Develop dashboards and reports measuring catalog adoption, metadata completeness, stewardship, lineage coverage, and governance maturity.
• Monitor metadata quality and identify gaps, inconsistencies, and stale metadata.
• Support integration between catalog, governance, data quality, security, privacy, and enterprise architecture capabilities.
• Develop documentation, procedures, and operating standards for metadata and catalog management.
• Provide training and support to Data Stewards and business users on catalog and metadata capabilities.
• Continuously evaluate and improve metadata management and data discovery capabilities.

Skills

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Policy translation

Data governance

Metadata management

Data catalog

Metadata standards

Communication skills

Analytical mindset

Problem solving

Education

MA/MS degree

Tools

Data governance platforms

Data catalog platforms

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist to support AO Courts modernization by implementing metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage across the CMM program.

You will configure governance platforms, establish metadata standards, capture metadata, and enable enterprise data discovery for self-service access. You will collaborate with Data Governance Analysts, Data Quality Analysts, Data Architects, Data Stewards, and