Remote Data Governance & Metadata Scientist

SOS International LLC; El Paso (TX); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SOSi is seeking a Data Governance & Metadata Scientist to support a DoD data ecosystem, enabling real-time information sharing and mission-tailored analytics. The role focuses on building scalable metadata governance and ensuring interoperability across DoD, IC, and partner networks.

Responsibilities include establishing governance frameworks, automating metadata tagging, and integrating with OpenLineage, Unity Catalog, and GIS metadata standards to strengthen data lineage and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Information Management, GIS, or five years of equivalent experience.
• Develop, implement, and maintain data governance frameworks with metadata interoperability.
• Proficient in metadata management, data lineage tracking (Unity Catalog/OpenLineage).
• Geospatial data standards and DoD metadata policy compliance experience.
• Experience implementing metadata governance for structured and unstructured data in cloud environments.
• Track data lineage and ensure metadata synchronization across catalogs and repositories.
• Use OpenLineage, Apache Atlas, or similar tools for metadata management.
• Enforce DoD metadata policies and NSG tradecraft standards for geospatial datasets.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain metadata governance frameworks compliant with DoD policies.
• Develop automated metadata tagging processes to improve data discovery, classification, and lineage.
• Implement and manage data governance workflows integrating OpenLineage, Unity Catalog, and GIS standards.
• Submit the Metadata & Data Governance Compliance Report detailing lineage and security enhancements.

Skills

Data governance

Metadata management

Geospatial data

Data lineage tracking

OpenLineage

Unity Catalog

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or 5 years equivalent experience

Tools

OpenLineage

Apache Atlas

ESRI Kubernetes

Unity Catalog

Data Catalog

Job description

SOSi is seeking a Data Governance & Metadata Scientist to support a DoD data ecosystem, enabling real-time information sharing and mission-tailored analytics. The role focuses on building scalable metadata governance and ensuring interoperability across DoD, IC, and partner networks.

Responsibilities include establishing governance frameworks, automating metadata tagging, and integrating with OpenLineage, Unity Catalog, and GIS metadata standards to strengthen data lineage and security.