Data Governance Lead: Enterprise Data Stewardship

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

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