Enterprise Metadata Governance Lead

redarchsolutions; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid employee healthcare premiums

Annualized bonus compensation

Tuition reimbursement

Generous PTO

401K with 6% match

Job summary

Red Arch Solutions seeks a Metadata Governance Lead to serve as the senior authority for enterprise metadata management, data cataloging, and governance. You will drive standards, improve discovery, quality, interoperability, and compliance across the organization.

You will provide strategic leadership for metadata programs, support automated capabilities, and ensure alignment with IC policies and enterprise data management objectives, collaborating with data stewards, owners, and engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information management, Data Science, Computer Science, Library Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience supporting enterprise data governance, metadata management, or data stewardship programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise data catalogs and metadata repositories.
• Experience developing metadata standards, taxonomies, and governance procedures.
• Knowledge of Intelligence Community data management policies and governance frameworks (ICD 504 and IC Data Strategy).
• Experience facilitating stakeholder engagement across technical and business organizations.
• Experience with data catalog platforms such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Apache Atlas or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise metadata management and data catalog initiatives.
• Establish and maintain metadata standards, taxonomies, naming conventions, and classification guidelines.
• Oversee cataloging of enterprise data assets to improve discoverability and reuse.
• Ensure metadata completeness, accuracy, and consistency across data domains.
• Manage metadata lifecycle processes and governance workflows.
• Develop and refine metadata governance policies, processes, and SOPs.
• Support governance boards, councils, and working groups.
• Collaborate with data stewards, data owners, system owners, data scientists, and engineering teams.
• Gather and document requirements for metadata management tools and enterprise catalog capabilities.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement metadata automation and workflow enhancements.
• Support integration of metadata management capabilities across enterprise systems.
• Validate and test metadata solutions to ensure requirements are met.
• Develop metrics for monitoring metadata quality and catalog usage.
• Support data quality initiatives through metadata enrichment and stewardship.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Leadership

Metadata governance

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information management / related field

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Alation

Apache Atlas

Job description

Red Arch Solutions seeks a Metadata Governance Lead to serve as the senior authority for enterprise metadata management, data cataloging, and governance. You will drive standards, improve discovery, quality, interoperability, and compliance across the organization.

You will provide strategic leadership for metadata programs, support automated capabilities, and ensure alignment with IC policies and enterprise data management objectives, collaborating with data stewards, owners, and engineering