Data Governance Lead: Policy & Stewardship Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Data Governance Lead to drive enterprise governance across metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, and data quality. You will translate policy into concrete requirements for data products, pipelines, and platform services, guiding governance groups and owners.

This role includes deploying and operating Databricks in AWS GovCloud to ensure secure, policy-aligned data practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data governance or information management.
• Experience implementing enterprise data governance frameworks with policies and roles.
• Experience establishing metadata standards, data dictionaries and naming conventions.
• Experience defining data lineage across sources and processes.
• Experience developing data classification, handling, retention and disclosure rules.
• Experience setting data quality standards and remediation workflows.
• Experience facilitating governance working groups and stakeholder decisions.
• Ability to define interoperability and cross-domain governance requirements.
• Must obtain Public Trust or Suitability determination as per client rules.
• Bachelor's degree required.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance activities across metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, data quality, access, compliance, and cost accountability.
• Translate enterprise policy into actionable requirements for data products, pipelines, platform services, and stakeholders.
• Guide governance working groups, data-owner decisions, and implementation teams.
• Support Databricks in AWS GovCloud deployment and ongoing governance operations.

Skills

Data governance

Metadata standards

Data lineage

Data quality

Governance facilitation

Interoperability requirements

Public Trust/Suitability

AWS GovCloud

Databricks / Unity Catalog

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Collibra

Unity Catalog

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton seeks a Data Governance Lead to drive enterprise governance across metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, and data quality. You will translate policy into concrete requirements for data products, pipelines, and platform services, guiding governance groups and owners.

This role includes deploying and operating Databricks in AWS GovCloud to ensure secure, policy-aligned data practices.