Remote Data Quality Analyst – Federal Data Governance

ICF; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 61,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Data Quality Analyst to define and monitor data quality rules, dashboards, and governance health for a federal data modernization program. You will collaborate with data owners and engineers, delivering quarterly DataGov insights and ensuring publication readiness and compliance with government standards.

The role emphasizes data profiling, trend analysis, and remediation tracking, with a remote-first setup and occasional client-site meetings in Washington, DC. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Management, Statistics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Data Governance, or related field; or a high school diploma with four years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience aligned to the responsibilities of this role.
• Master's degree may substitute for two years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Defines, monitors, and reports on data‑quality rules, quality dimensions, freshness SLAs, publication readiness, and governance‑health metrics.
• Coordinates with data owners, stewards, and engineers to ensure rule definitions are meaningful, measurable, and aligned to Government‑approved standards.
• Supports Quarterly DataGov reporting, quality trend analysis, corrective‑action tracking, and customer confidence in published data.
• Apply Data quality dimensions, rule libraries, freshness SLAs, publication gates, data profiling, governance metrics, and reporting to support role delivery.
• Collaborate with relevant product, engineering, security, governance, quality, and customer‑facing stakeholders as required by the role.
• Document work products, decisions, risks, and delivery evidence to support traceability and continuous improvement.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

SQL

Data analysis

Power BI

Stakeholder collaboration

Governance metrics

Agile

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Management

Experience in lieu of degree

Master's degree substitution

Tools

Collibra EDC

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Informatica

Power BI

Job description

ICF is seeking a Data Quality Analyst to define and monitor data quality rules, dashboards, and governance health for a federal data modernization program. You will collaborate with data owners and engineers, delivering quarterly DataGov insights and ensuring publication readiness and compliance with government standards.

The role emphasizes data profiling, trend analysis, and remediation tracking, with a remote-first setup and occasional client-site meetings in Washington, DC. U.S.