Data Governance Lead with Security Clearance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Plan with Match

Paid Time Off

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Bonuses & Awards

Job summary

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Data Governance Lead to establish and enforce governance frameworks across VA enterprise systems, ensuring secure, reliable IT solutions for VA programs. The role focuses on data classification, quality, privacy, and metadata management in a federal context.

Responsibilities include overseeing data artifacts, steward roles, and integration across VA sources while adhering to NIST and VA enterprise standards. Salary ranges reflect federal contracting norms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT-related field 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.

Responsibilities

• Oversee data classification, retention, access controls, data quality management, ensuring compliance with VA, Federal, NIST, and enterprise standards.
• Recommend, design, implement, and support data governance frameworks including 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; analyze causes, effects, and remediation strategies.
• Establish data baselines, analyze data requirements, and optimize database performance and data usage.
• Develop and maintain Data Models, Data Dictionaries, Data Catalogs, and architecture data artifacts.

Skills

SQL

Data Governance

Data Quality

Metadata Mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/IT

Tools

AWS VA Enterprise Cloud

Job description

The Data Governance Lead establishes, manages, and enforces the data governance frameworks, standards, and stewardship practices required across VA‑EISS, MBMS, BOSS‑E, and the Benefits Platform for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Product Delivery Services (PDS), Benefits and Memorials (BAM), Memorial and Benefit Services (MBS) deliver secure, reliable, and effective Information Technology (IT) solutions that support the Department’s mission.

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. Qualifications Required: * 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).
• Public Trust Preferred: * Experience with AWS VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) Salary Range: $145,000 - $178,000 This position is in the proposal stage. The above salary range represents a general guideline. Integral considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers, such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and/or discretionary bonuses in addition to base pay.

Company Overview & Benefits

• Integral partners with federal defense, intelligence, and civilian leaders to tackle their most important challenges and deliver positive outcomes. Since our founding in 1998, we have helped clients leverage existing and emerging technologies to transform their enterprises, empower growth, drive innovation, and build sustainable success. The forward-leaning solutions we deliver are tailored to each mission with a focus on keeping our nation safe and secure. Integral is headquartered in McLean, VA and serves clients throughout the country. We offer a comprehensive total rewards package including paid parental leave and immediate vesting in our 401(k). Give us a try and become part of a curated group of professionals at Integral Federal! Our package also includes:
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Earned Bonuses & Awards
• Professional Training Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability