Remote Strategic Federal Data Lead: Governance & Insight

Unissant; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a Principal Data Lead to guide data strategy, governance, and data-management practices for a large federal IT services program.

The role partners with government data owners, architects, and analytics teams to ensure data is discoverable, trusted, and compliant with security and privacy requirements. You will lead metadata maturity, data quality standards, and data-sharing agreements across multiple data domains while driving enterprise data initiatives.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in senior data leadership on federal IT programs.
• Deep expertise in data governance, metadata, quality and lineage.
• Experience coordinating across data owners, stewards, and IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of the program's data strategy and governance.
• Oversee data supply chain including ingestion, storage, and access.
• Develop and maintain data-domain models, glossaries, and metadata.
• Facilitate governance forums and cross-team decision-making.
• Ensure data privacy, security, and compliance with government requirements.

Skills

Data strategy

Data governance

Metadata management

Data quality

Data lineage

Data catalogs

Data stewardship

Data-sharing practices

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

AWS Glue Data Catalog

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Unissant, Inc. is seeking a Principal Data Lead to guide data strategy, governance, and data-management practices for a large federal IT services program.

The role partners with government data owners, architects, and analytics teams to ensure data is discoverable, trusted, and compliant with security and privacy requirements. You will lead metadata maturity, data quality standards, and data-sharing agreements across multiple data domains while driving enterprise data initiatives.