Data Governance Lead

Integral Federal, Inc.; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) with immediate vesting

Paid Time Off

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Integral Federal, Inc. invites a Data Governance Lead to establish and enforce governance across VA‑EISS, MBMS, BOSS‑E, and the Benefits Platform within VA OIT.

You will drive classification, retention, access controls, metadata management, and data quality, partnering with VA sources to ensure compliance with NIST and RMF. You’ll define roles for data stewardship, resolve data quality issues, and shape data models and catalogs to enable secure, reliable IT solutions for the Department of

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT with 7–10 years of experience.
• Experience designing and implementing governance frameworks (classification, access/privacy, retention, quality, stewardship).
• Experience developing Data Dictionaries, Data Catalogs, Data Models, and metadata artifacts.
• Experience supporting enterprise analytics, BI, predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and pattern recognition.
• Experience ensuring compliance with Federal data standards, NIST, RMF, VA EA, and privacy/security requirements.
• Expertise in enterprise data governance frameworks, stewardship methods, lineage tracking, and metadata management.
• Strong SQL and data architecture understanding (data baselines, optimization, ETL/ELT pipelines).
• Public Trust

Responsibilities

• Oversee data classification, retention, access controls, data quality management, and compliance with VA, Federal, NIST standards.
• Design and support data governance frameworks including classification, access/privacy, retention, quality, and stewardship.
• Define roles, responsibilities, and decision-making for data stewardship across Benefits enterprise.
• Detect and resolve data quality issues; analyze causes, effects, and remediation strategies.
• Establish data baselines, analyze data requirements, and optimize database performance and usage.
• Develop and maintain Data Models, Data Dictionaries, Data Catalogs, and metadata artifacts.
• Document definitions, metadata, and lineage for authoritative interpretation across VA systems.
• Oversee data integration from VA sources such as NCA, VBA, VHA, Corporate VA systems, and BAM/MBS.

Skills

SQL

Data governance

Data modeling

Data catalogs

Compliance (NIST/RMF)

Enterprise analytics

ETL/ELT pipelines

Public Trust

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or IT

Tools

VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC)

Job description

Overview

The Data Governance Lead establishes, manages, and enforces the data governance frameworks, standards, and stewardship practices required across VA‑EISS, MBMS, BOSS‑E, and the Benefits Platform for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Product Delivery Services (PDS), Benefits and Memorials (BAM), Memorial and Benefit Services (MBS) deliver secure, reliable, and effective Information Technology (IT) solutions that support the Department’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Oversee data classification, retention, access controls, data quality management, and ensures all data artifacts comply with VA, Federal, NIST, and enterprise architecture standards
• Recommend, design, implement, and support data governance frameworks including data classification, access/security, privacy, retention, quality, and sharing.
• Define and maintain clear roles, responsibilities, and decision‑making authorities for data stewardship across the Benefits enterprise
• Detect and resolve data quality issues; perform analysis on causes, effects, and remediation strategies.
• Establish data baselines, analyze data requirements, and recommend opportunities to optimize database performance and data usage
• Develop and maintain Data Models, Data Dictionaries, Data Catalogs, and architecture data artifacts.
• Document definitions, metadata, and lineage to ensure authoritative interpretation and consistent usage of data across VA systems
• Oversee integration of data from VA sources such as NCA, VBA, VHA, Corporate VA systems, and internal BAM systems.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or IT related degree with 7-10 years' experience
• Experience designing and implementing governance frameworks (classification, access/privacy, retention, quality, stewardship).
• Experience developing Data Dictionaries, Data Catalogs, Data Models, and metadata artifacts.
• Experience supporting enterprise analytics, BI, predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and pattern recognition.
• Experience ensuring compliance with Federal data standards, NIST, RMF, VA EA, and privacy/security requirements
• Expertise in enterprise data governance frameworks, stewardship methods, lineage tracking, and metadata management.
• Strong SQL and data architecture understanding (data baselines, optimization, ETL/ELT pipelines).
• Public Trust

Preferred:

• Experience with AWS VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC)

Company Overview

Integral partners with federal defense, intelligence, and civilian leaders to tackle their most important challenges and deliver positive outcomes. Since our founding in 1998, we have helped clients leverage existing and emerging technologies to transform their enterprises, empower growth, drive innovation, and build sustainable success. The forward-leaning solutions we deliver are tailored to each mission with a focus on keeping our nation safe and secure.

Integral is headquartered in McLean, VA and serves clients throughout the country.

We offer a comprehensive total rewards package including paid parental leave and immediate vesting in our 401(k). Give us a try and become part of a curated group of professionals at Integral Federal!

Our package also includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Earned Bonuses & Awards
• Professional Training Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability