Data Catalog & Metadata Architect for Modern Governance

General Dynamics Information Technology; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology in Fairfax, VA seeks a Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist to lead governance, metadata, and data lineage initiatives across the CMM program for AO courts data. You will implement and operate metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and lineage capabilities, enabling trusted, self-service data across the enterprise.

The role requires coordinating with governance analysts, data stewards, and engineers to establish standards, classify data, and

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years general information systems experience and 7+ years specialized experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise data governance programs.
• Experience translating governance policy into practical operational processes in delivery environments.
• Experience governing high-sensitivity or regulated data with compliance expectations.
• Experience with access management and 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 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 scrolling.
• 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

Data governance

Metadata management

Data catalog

Data lineage

Education

MA/MS degree

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology in Fairfax, VA seeks a Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist to lead governance, metadata, and data lineage initiatives across the CMM program for AO courts data. You will implement and operate metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and lineage capabilities, enabling trusted, self-service data across the enterprise.

The role requires coordinating with governance analysts, data stewards, and engineers to establish standards, classify data, and