Senior Data Governance Analyst - Federal Programs

Technomics; United States; On-site; USD 105,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Technomics seeks an experienced data governance professional to design and rollout governance for a federal client. You will build governance structures, define standards, and drive adoption across business and technical teams, positioning data as a trusted enterprise asset aligned to security, compliance, and modernization goals.

The role requires translating stakeholder perspectives into practical governance decisions, maturing governance capabilities, processes, and supporting technologies

Qualifications

• 8 years in data governance, data management, or enterprise data strategy.
• Proven experience establishing governing data governance councils or working groups.
• US citizen; eligible for a Secret level government security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Governance Framework & Compliance: Design and mature a data governance operating model, objectives, decision rights, accountability, standards.
• Conduct current state assessments; identify gaps, barriers and improvement opportunities.
• Convene and facilitate governance councils, working groups and stewardship forums, charters, cadence, decision logs.
• Develop, adopt and continuously improve data management policies, principles and procedures; measure adoption/effectiveness; report metrics and recommend corrective actions.
• Align federal frameworks (Evidence Act, Federal Data Strategy, FAIR, DAMA, DMBOK, DCAM) with client needs.
• Metadata Catalog & Tool Enablement: Translate governance best practices into reusable templates; define requirements for metadata lineage, business glossary, data catalogs; evaluate tools and plan phased tool implementation; produce inventories, dictionaries, stewardship records.
• Stewardship & Issue Resolution: Lead cross-functional workshops; establish RACI matrices; create decision-making and issue-adjudication processes; coach data owners and stewards.
• Training, Documentation & Change Management: Deliver training on governance principles; maintain a knowledge hub; run campaigns to drive adoption; define and monitor KPIs.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Policy design

Change management

Compliance understanding

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems / Computer Science / Data Analytics

Tools

Collibra

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Informatica

Job description

Technomics seeks an experienced data governance professional to design and rollout governance for a federal client. You will build governance structures, define standards, and drive adoption across business and technical teams, positioning data as a trusted enterprise asset aligned to security, compliance, and modernization goals.

The role requires translating stakeholder perspectives into practical governance decisions, maturing governance capabilities, processes, and supporting technologies