Security-Cleared Senior Data Governance Strategist

Peraton; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks an experienced Data Management and Governance SME to support a classified U.S. Government contract within the Intelligence Community (IC).

You will provide subject matter expertise across data governance, interoperability, standards, integration, and lifecycle management. You will assess current data capabilities, identify gaps, and develop an Enterprise Data Strategy with a practical roadmap, documented practices, roles, and templates for sustainable governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in data management, governance, architecture, or related discipline; MS/MA 10+ years; PhD 7+ years.
• Active TS or Q clearance or higher; ability to obtain Q/SCI.
• Experience developing and implementing enterprise data management and governance strategies.
• Experience conducting organizational data maturity assessments using IC/government frameworks.
• Experience developing current-state and target-state assessments with roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of data governance, quality, metadata, architecture, standards, integration, interoperability, stewardship, lifecycle, sharing.
• Experience developing data management policies, templates, and guidance.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews, workshops, and assessments.
• Ability to work across boundaries and build consensus among diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Data Management and Governance SME supporting enterprise data initiatives across agency and customer organizations.
• Provide expertise in data management, governance, standards, interoperability, integration, quality, metadata, and lifecycle management.
• Assess the current state of data management and governance maturity.
• Apply IC and industry data maturity frameworks to evaluate capabilities and targets.
• Conduct benchmarking to identify leading practices and maturity targets.
• Gather stakeholder input through interviews, workshops, surveys, and sessions.
• Develop current-state assessments detailing capabilities, processes, roles, policies, standards, and governance.
• Identify data management gaps, risks, dependencies across the enterprise.
• Develop target-state capabilities aligned with mission requirements.
• Develop an Enterprise Data Strategy with roadmap and governance artifacts.
• Develop practical implementation roadmaps prioritizing initiatives by mission value and readiness.
• Define enterprise data management practices, standards, templates, and guidance.
• Develop governance frameworks with roles, responsibilities, and operating models.
• Establish Data Stewardship practices across customer organizations.
• Develop data standards and guidance for interoperability and sharing.
• Assess data standards and align with IC, Federal, and industry standards.
• Support data definitions, taxonomies, metadata standards, and data models for interoperability.
• Develop governance processes for ownership, quality, access, sharing, classification, lifecycle.
• Establish governance artifacts including policies, charters, playbooks, templates.
• Coordinate with data architects, engineers, analysts, cybersecurity, and program leadership.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to prioritize governance practices.
• Develop executive briefings, reports, and recommendations.
• Communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Establish measurable KPIs to track progress toward target-state capabilities.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Management

Data Architecture

Data Interoperability

Data Quality

Metadata Management

Data Standards

Data Lifecycle Management

Data Sharing & Access

Stakeholder Facilitation

Enterprise Data Strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline

Job description

Peraton seeks an experienced Data Management and Governance SME to support a classified U.S. Government contract within the Intelligence Community (IC).

You will provide subject matter expertise across data governance, interoperability, standards, integration, and lifecycle management. You will assess current data capabilities, identify gaps, and develop an Enterprise Data Strategy with a practical roadmap, documented practices, roles, and templates for sustainable governance.