Data Governance Lead: Policy, Lineage & Trust

Booz Allen Hamilton; North Dakota; On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Data Governance Lead to drive governance across metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, and data quality. You will translate policy into requirements for data products, pipelines, and platforms, guiding governance groups and implementation teams to build secure, interoperable data capabilities.

Ideal candidates will support Databricks in AWS GovCloud and ensure compliance, access control, and cost accountability while maintaining strong collaboration with

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data governance, data management, or information management.
• Experience leading or implementing enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Experience establishing metadata standards and data dictionaries.
• Experience defining data lineage standards across sources.
• Experience developing data classification, handling, retention requirements.
• Experience developing data-quality standards and remediation workflows.
• Experience facilitating governance working groups and stakeholder decisions.
• Ability to define interoperability and domain-governance requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust or Suitability determination.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance activities across metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, data quality, access, and compliance.
• Translate enterprise policy into clear, actionable requirements for data products, pipelines, platform services, and stakeholders.
• Guide governance working groups, data-owner decisions, and implementation teams as they build secure, interoperable data capabilities.
• Ensure data governance practices are embedded into data platforms and workflows across mission-critical environments.

Skills

Experience in data governance

Enterprise data governance

Metadata standards

Data lineage standards

Data classification & handling

Data quality standards

Governance facilitation

Interoperability requirements

Public Trust determination

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Collibra

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Data Governance Lead to drive governance across metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, and data quality. You will translate policy into requirements for data products, pipelines, and platforms, guiding governance groups and implementation teams to build secure, interoperable data capabilities.

Ideal candidates will support Databricks in AWS GovCloud and ensure compliance, access control, and cost accountability while maintaining strong collaboration with