Metadata & Data Catalog Strategist

General Dynamics Information Technology; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist to advance AO's CMM data governance and modernization. You will lead metadata management, data cataloging, and lineage initiatives, enabling discovery, quality, and self-service data use across the organization.

You will collaborate with Data Governance Analysts, Data Stewards, and security teams to implement compliant data sharing and governance workflows, while developing training materials and operational

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years in information systems and 7+ years in specialized experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise data governance programs.
• Experience translating governance policy into operational processes.
• Experience with high-sensitivity or regulated data and privacy requirements.
• Strong collaboration with security, governance and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage.
• Configure and administer data governance, catalog, metadata, and lineage platforms.
• Establish metadata standards, naming conventions, and governance practices.
• Develop enterprise and domain-level business glossaries and data definitions.
• Capture and maintain governance metadata across data assets, terms, and systems.
• Build relationships between data assets, reports, data products, and owners.
• Develop end-to-end data lineage across critical assets and flows.
• Integrate metadata from source systems, warehouses, lakes, APIs, and BI tools.
• Configure ingestion, scanning, tagging, and discovery of metadata.
• Support automated metadata harvesting and synchronization where appropriate.

Skills

Data governance

Metadata management

Data catalog

Data lineage

Stakeholder management

Process documentation

Training materials

Education

MA/MS degree

Tools

Governance platforms

Data catalog tools

Metadata infrastructure

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist to advance AO's CMM data governance and modernization. You will lead metadata management, data cataloging, and lineage initiatives, enabling discovery, quality, and self-service data use across the organization.

You will collaborate with Data Governance Analysts, Data Stewards, and security teams to implement compliant data sharing and governance workflows, while developing training materials and operational