Technical Metadata Specialist

Aleknagik Technology, LLC (ATL); Falls Church (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A federal contractor is seeking a Technical Metadata Specialist in Falls Church, Virginia. This full-time position involves analyzing metadata and ensuring its quality for data governance initiatives. Candidates should have 4-7 years of experience in metadata management and compliance frameworks, along with a relevant bachelor's degree. This role requires on-site presence and offers the opportunity to work closely on ensuring data quality across systems.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of metadata analysis and data governance experience.
• Experience developing data dictionaries, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies.
• Metadata quality assessment and remediation experience.
• Familiarity with DoD, DHA, or federal data standards and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Analyze metadata collected during baseline inventory efforts for data systems.
• Review technical and operational metadata for completeness and accuracy.
• Identify metadata gaps and inconsistencies across systems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve metadata issues.
• Normalize metadata values to align with approved standards.
• Apply controlled vocabularies to ensure semantic consistency.
• Align data element definitions with DoD, DHA, and NIST standards.
• Perform metadata quality checks and document issues.
• Support development of metadata quality metrics and dashboards.
• Develop and maintain data dictionaries and metadata documentation.
• Validate AI‑generated metadata documentation for accuracy.
• Ensure alignment between metadata and system implementations.
• Support metadata lifecycle workflows and stewardship tracking.
• Assist with audit readiness through traceable changes.

Skills

Metadata analysis

Data modeling fundamentals

Technical documentation

Stakeholder coordination

Metadata quality assessment

Compliance frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology

Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics

Bachelor's degree in Physical or Life Sciences

Job description

Job Overview

Aleknagik Technology, LLC is searching for a qualified candidate to fill the role of Technical Metadata Specialist. This position supports enterprise‑level data governance initiatives for a federal health organization by ensuring metadata across authoritative and secondary‑use data systems is accurate, complete, standardized, and usable. The selected candidate must be within commuting distance of Falls Church, VA, as this role requires on‑site and hybrid support in alignment with customer requirements.

Duties

• Analyze metadata collected during baseline inventory efforts for authoritative and secondary‑use data systems.
• Review technical, business, operational, and security metadata for completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
• Identify metadata gaps, duplications, inconsistencies, and ambiguities across systems and domains.
• Collaborate with system owners, data stewards, and subject‑matter experts to resolve metadata issues.
• Normalize metadata values to align with approved standards, naming conventions, schemas, and taxonomies.
• Apply controlled vocabularies and reference data to ensure semantic consistency across domains.
• Align data element definitions with DoD, DHA, and NIST standards.
• Perform metadata quality checks, including validation of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and consistency.
• Document metadata quality issues and support corrective and remediation activities.
• Support development and maintenance of metadata quality metrics and dashboards.
• Develop, review, and maintain technical and business data dictionaries.
• Validate AI‑generated metadata documentation for accuracy, clarity, and usability.
• Ensure alignment between documented metadata and system implementations.
• Support metadata lifecycle workflows including creation, review, approval, publication, versioning, and retirement.
• Assist data stewards with metadata stewardship responsibilities and approval tracking.
• Support audit readiness through traceable metadata changes and stewardship decisions.
• Validate metadata synchronization across the interim repository, DHA Enterprise Data Catalog (DHA‑EDC), and federated platforms.
• Identify and report discrepancies in federated metadata exchanges and support remediation efforts.
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) for metadata search, discovery, and usability features.
• Capture user feedback and recommend improvements to metadata presentation and organization.
• Support optional federated governance initiatives and metadata requirements for data products when exercised.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 4‑7 years of experience in:
• Metadata analysis, management, and data modeling fundamentals
• Development and maintenance of data dictionaries, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies
• Metadata quality assessment and validation techniques
• DoD, DHA, or federal data standards and compliance frameworks
• Technical documentation and stakeholder coordination

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, such as:
• Information Technology
• Data Analytics
• Mathematics
• Physical or Life Sciences

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting, Defense & Space, and Government Relations Services