Data Governance Lead & Stewardship Architect

Integral Federal, Inc.; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) with vesting

Paid Time Off

Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Job summary

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Data Governance Lead to establish, manage, and enforce data governance frameworks across VA programs including VA‑EISS and Benefits platforms.

You will drive data classification, retention, access controls, and data quality to support secure IT solutions for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The ideal candidate has 7–10 years of experience designing governance frameworks, developing data dictionaries and catalogs, and ensuring compliance with Federal

Qualifications

• 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).

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.

Skills

Data governance

SQL

Data modeling

Data dictionaries

Compliance

ETL/ELT

NIST/VA standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT

Tools

None

Job description

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Data Governance Lead to establish, manage, and enforce data governance frameworks across VA programs including VA‑EISS and Benefits platforms.

You will drive data classification, retention, access controls, and data quality to support secure IT solutions for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The ideal candidate has 7–10 years of experience designing governance frameworks, developing data dictionaries and catalogs, and ensuring compliance with Federal