Data Governance Lead — Quality & Stewardship

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a Data Governance SME to design, implement, and operationalize data governance practices for a large federal client. Responsibilities include metadata management, data cataloging, stewardship workflows, and data quality assessment to guide remediation priorities.

Candidates will collaborate with data architects and business stakeholders, ensuring compliant data access workflows and robust data lineage. Local to Baltimore area with on-site expectations two days per week.

Qualifications

• U.S. government security clearance obtainable.
• Bachelor's degree in IS/Data Management/CS with 10+ years total experience.
• 6+ years in data governance, data management, or data science.
• Experience assessing data quality and building governance frameworks.
• Understanding of metadata types, data lineage, and schema management.
• Familiarity with data privacy, security, and access-control concepts.
• Proficiency with SQL and Excel for data quality assessment.
• Working knowledge of AI training data concepts (not model development).
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate findings for execs.
• Local to Baltimore, MD metro area; willing to travel to client site.

Responsibilities

• Assess current-state assets, governance practices, and interoperability; deliver Data Management Framework.
• Implement and maintain data catalogs, metadata repositories, and business glossaries.
• Define and rollout data stewardship and ownership models; manage issues and lifecycle.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify data quality issues and remediation priorities.
• Operate a data-quality remediation tracking process with monthly reporting.
• Facilitate alignment between technical teams and business stakeholders on data definitions.
• Support user-centered data access-request workflows and access controls.
• Collaborate with Data Architect to ensure environment supports accurate data and lineage.
• Deliver quarterly data maturity assessments with improvement recommendations.
• Communicate governance findings to technical and executive audiences.
• Contribute to AI Compliance and Risk Management Plan data origin and quality sections.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation of assessments, findings, and remediation activity.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Data quality

Metadata management

Data lineage

Stakeholder communication

SQL

Excel

Access controls

AI data concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in IS/Data/CS

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Atlan

Cloud platforms

Job description

Steampunk is seeking a Data Governance SME to design, implement, and operationalize data governance practices for a large federal client. Responsibilities include metadata management, data cataloging, stewardship workflows, and data quality assessment to guide remediation priorities.

Candidates will collaborate with data architects and business stakeholders, ensuring compliant data access workflows and robust data lineage. Local to Baltimore area with on-site expectations two days per week.