Remote Data Governance & Metadata Leader

DecisionPoint | Cortek; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking a Data Governance & Metadata Lead to establish and maintain data ownership, definitions, metadata, lineage, and approved-use records for government data assets. You will coordinate with government owners, engineers, AI/ML personnel, and analytics teams to ensure governance is applied across data pipelines and reporting.

The role requires eight years of experience, a relevant degree, and an active security clearance.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Eight+ years of professional experience.
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, data management, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent.
• Experience establishing or maintaining data ownership assignments.
• Experience developing and maintaining business glossaries and data dictionaries.
• Experience managing metadata and documenting data lineage.
• Experience documenting or administering data retention requirements.
• Experience maintaining approved-use records and controls.
• Ability to coordinate Government decisions on data definitions, access, and authoritative sources.

Responsibilities

• Maintain documented data ownership and stewardship assignments, responsibilities, and escalation paths.
• Develop and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata standards, and common definitions.
• Document authoritative sources and coordinate Government decisions when systems or stakeholders use conflicting definitions.
• Maintain data lineage showing how information moves through source systems, transformations, warehouses, analytical models, dashboards, and reports.
• Maintain approved-use records documenting authorized purposes, restrictions, decisions, and supporting approvals.
• Document retention rules and coordinate their implementation with Government records, legal, privacy, security, and technical representatives, as applicable.
• Establish and maintain common identifiers, naming conventions, reference-data definitions, and cross-system mappings.
• Apply DAMA-DMBOK-aligned practices to data governance, metadata management, stewardship, data quality, and lifecycle management.
• Facilitate Government decisions on data definitions, access, ownership, approved uses, and authoritative sources.
• Prepare governance agendas, decision materials, meeting records, action items, and decision logs.
• Track governance issues, unresolved ownership questions, conflicting definitions, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate with engineering teams to keep metadata and lineage current as pipelines, schemas, datasets, and integrations change.
• Support consistent definitions and calculation rules for KPIs, dashboards, analytical products, and self-service reporting.
• Coordinate governance records for datasets used in AI training, validation, testing, retrieval, and operational analysis.
• Help ensure data-use restrictions and Government-approved access decisions are reflected in technical implementation.
• Work with data quality and testing personnel to connect governance rules with validation checks and documented evidence.
• Assess proposed data changes for effects on definitions, lineage, ownership, retention, approved uses, and downstream consumers.
• Maintain searchable governance documentation and support user understanding of available data and its limitations.
• Report governance status, documentation gaps, unresolved decisions, and improvement priorities to program leadership and Government stakeholders.
• Provide guidance and knowledge transfer to data owners, stewards, analysts, and technical teams.

Skills

Data governance

DAMADMBOK

Stakeholder coordination

Metadata management

Data lineage

KPI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or related field

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Informatica

Alation

Job description

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking a Data Governance & Metadata Lead to establish and maintain data ownership, definitions, metadata, lineage, and approved-use records for government data assets. You will coordinate with government owners, engineers, AI/ML personnel, and analytics teams to ensure governance is applied across data pipelines and reporting.

The role requires eight years of experience, a relevant degree, and an active security clearance.