Strategic Enterprise Data Governance Lead

Integral; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Integral is seeking a Data Governance Lead to establish and enforce data governance across VA programs. You will design classification, privacy, retention, and quality frameworks and lead data stewardship across the Benefits enterprise.

You will develop data models, dictionaries, catalogs, and metadata, ensure compliance with federal standards, and partner with IT teams to improve data quality and secure data usage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT with 7-10 years of experience.
• Design and implement governance frameworks including classification, access/privacy, retention, quality, and stewardship.
• Develop Data Dictionaries, Data Catalogs, Data Models, and metadata artifacts.
• Support enterprise analytics, BI, predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and pattern recognition.
• Ensure compliance with Federal data standards, NIST, RMF, VA EA, and privacy/security requirements.
• Expertise in governance frameworks, lineage tracking, and metadata management.
• Strong SQL and data architecture understanding.

Responsibilities

• Oversee data classification, retention, access controls, data quality management, and ensure artifacts comply with standards.
• Recommend, design, implement, and support governance frameworks including classification, access/security, privacy, retention, quality, and sharing.
• Define and maintain roles and decision authorities for data stewardship across Benefits.
• Detect and resolve data quality issues; analyze causes and remediation strategies.
• Establish data baselines, analyze requirements, and optimize database performance and data usage.
• Develop and maintain Data Models, Data Dictionaries, Data Catalogs, and metadata artifacts.
• Document definitions, metadata, and lineage for consistent data usage across VA systems.
• Oversee integration of data from VA sources and internal BAM systems.

Skills

Data governance

Data dictionaries

Data catalogs

Data models

Metadata management

SQL

Security compliance

AWS VA Enterprise Cloud

Public Trust

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT

Tools

ETL/ELT pipelines

Job description

Integral is seeking a Data Governance Lead to establish and enforce data governance across VA programs. You will design classification, privacy, retention, and quality frameworks and lead data stewardship across the Benefits enterprise.

You will develop data models, dictionaries, catalogs, and metadata, ensure compliance with federal standards, and partner with IT teams to improve data quality and secure data usage.