Remote Data Analytics Lead - Enterprise Governance & AI

ICF Olson; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 99,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking an experienced Data Analytics Manager to lead enterprise data, governance, and AI-enabled capabilities for a complex federal technology services program. This role will support data policy, standards, governance processes, portfolio management practices, data architecture, data quality controls, analytics products, dashboards, and secure data access models.

The position is remote within the United States, requiring strong collaboration with cybersecurity, engineering, product, and

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience leading enterprise data, analytics, governance, data engineering, data architecture, or AI-enabled analytics initiatives.
• Active data, cloud, analytics, AI/ML, or data governance certifications such as CDMP, DAMA, AWS/Azure/GCP, Power BI, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data, analytics, governance, and AI-enabled capability delivery across a complex federal technology environment.
• Develop and implement data governance policies, standards, operating procedures, approval workflows, and accountability models.
• Establish and maintain data portfolio management practices, including prioritization, project intake, resource planning, risk tracking, milestone reporting, and performance measurement.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable data architecture, including data pipelines, data lakes, data warehouses, data marts, data catalogs, metadata repositories, and data lineage capabilities.
• Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, data dictionaries, scorecards, issue management workflows, and continuous monitoring processes.
• Guide development of analytics products, dashboards, reports, and visualization tools that provide operational insight and support executive decision-making.
• Support advanced analytics capabilities, including statistical analysis, predictive modeling, trend analysis, root cause analysis, and AI-enabled analytics.
• Ensure data sharing, API integration, and data access models are secure, governed, auditable, and aligned with privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with cybersecurity, engineering, product, and program management teams to align data platforms, applications, integrations, and analytics capabilities with enterprise standards.
• Establish reusable templates, frameworks, data models, ETL/ELT patterns, documentation repositories, and project management toolkits for data initiatives.
• Support training, documentation, and knowledge transfer to improve user adoption and long-term sustainment of data tools, dashboards, and data management practices.
• Monitor data quality, data usage, access patterns, and analytics adoption to identify risks, improvement opportunities, and operational blind spots.

Skills

Data governance

Data architecture

Data engineering

Analytics

Data quality

Metadata management

Responsible AI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Snowflake

BigQuery

Databricks

Redshift

Job description

ICF is seeking an experienced Data Analytics Manager to lead enterprise data, governance, and AI-enabled capabilities for a complex federal technology services program. This role will support data policy, standards, governance processes, portfolio management practices, data architecture, data quality controls, analytics products, dashboards, and secure data access models.

The position is remote within the United States, requiring strong collaboration with cybersecurity, engineering, product, and