Remote Enterprise Data & AI Leader

ICF; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking an experienced Chief Data Office / Data & AI Lead to steer enterprise data, analytics, governance, and AI-enabled capabilities for a complex federal technology services program. The role emphasizes translating business needs into secure, governed data and analytics that support executive decision-making.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in data governance, architecture, engineering, and responsible AI, with the ability to drive policy, standards, and scalable data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Active data, cloud, analytics, AI/ML, or data governance certification.
• 10+ years leading enterprise data, analytics, data governance, or AI-enabled analytics initiatives.
• 8+ years designing or managing enterprise data platforms and metadata management.
• U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

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.
• Design and implement 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

Analytics leadership

AI governance

Security & compliance

Regulated environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, CS, IS, Engineering, Statistics, Math, Business Analytics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Databricks

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Synapse

Power BI

Dataverse

Job description

ICF is seeking an experienced Chief Data Office / Data & AI Lead to steer enterprise data, analytics, governance, and AI-enabled capabilities for a complex federal technology services program. The role emphasizes translating business needs into secure, governed data and analytics that support executive decision-making.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in data governance, architecture, engineering, and responsible AI, with the ability to drive policy, standards, and scalable data