Remote: Senior Data Strategy & Governance Lead

Blueprint Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 174,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

FSA

Paid time off

Parental leave

Professional growth

Job summary

Blueprint Technologies, LLC is seeking a Principal Data Lead to provide senior leadership for data strategy, governance, quality, and coordination across a complex federal healthcare data environment. This role turns data strategy into practical standards and operating practices that improve reliability, discoverability, and trusted data use.

The Principal Data Lead will collaborate with data owners, technical leaders, product and engineering teams, and program stakeholders across multiple

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise data strategy, governance, and data management across complex environments.
• Experience coordinating data decisions across multiple source systems, data domains, and stakeholder groups.
• Ability to translate complex data concepts into clear decisions, plans, and communications for technical and nontechnical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of data strategy across a large, multi-domain federal healthcare program.
• Define governance for trusted-data promotion, including the standards and controls data must meet before broader use.
• Set and maintain data quality standards, measurement practices, and accountability across data domains.
• Coordinate priorities and decisions across source-system teams, data owners, engineering teams, and program stakeholders.
• Provide senior oversight for data engineering practices involving Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, jobs and workflows, schema design, optimization, and pipeline reliability.
• Guide data governance and metadata practices involving Unity Catalog, machine-readable documentation, lineage, and data discoverability.
• Translate program objectives into clear data standards, roadmaps, operating practices, and measurable outcomes.
• Identify cross-domain dependencies, risks, and quality issues and drive them to resolution.
• Communicate data strategy, governance decisions, and delivery progress to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Participate in proposal-related oral presentation preparation and presentation activities as required for this key personnel role.

Skills

Data strategy

Governance

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Python

SQL

Unity Catalog

Job description

Blueprint Technologies, LLC is seeking a Principal Data Lead to provide senior leadership for data strategy, governance, quality, and coordination across a complex federal healthcare data environment. This role turns data strategy into practical standards and operating practices that improve reliability, discoverability, and trusted data use.

The Principal Data Lead will collaborate with data owners, technical leaders, product and engineering teams, and program stakeholders across multiple