Data Governance, Metadata Lead

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Maintain documented data ownership and stewardship assignments, responsibilities, and escalation paths • Develop and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata standards, and common definitions • Document authoritative sources and coordinate Government decisions on conflicting definitions • Maintain data lineage across source systems, transformations, warehouses, analytical models, dashboards, and reports • Maintain approved-use records documenting authorized purposes, restrictions, decisions, and approvals • Document retention rules and coordinate implementation with Government records, legal, privacy, security, and technical representatives • Establish and maintain common identifiers, naming conventions, reference-data definitions, and cross-system mappings • Apply DAMA-DMBOK-aligned practices to data governance, metadata management, stewardship, data quality, and lifecycle management • Facilitate Government decisions on data definitions, access, ownership, approved uses, and authoritative sources • Prepare governance agendas, decision materials, meeting records, action items, and decision logs • Track governance issues, unresolved ownership questions, conflicting definitions, and corrective actions • Coordinate with engineering teams to keep metadata and lineage current as pipelines, schemas, datasets, and integrations change • Support consistent definitions and calculation rules for KPIs, dashboards, analytical products, and self-service reporting • Coordinate governance records for datasets used in AI training, validation, testing, retrieval, and operational analysis • Ensure data-use restrictions and Government-approved access decisions are reflected in technical implementation • Connect governance rules with data-quality validation checks and documented evidence • Assess proposed data changes for effects on definitions, lineage, ownership, retention, approved uses, and downstream consumers • Maintain searchable governance documentation and support user understanding of available data and limitations • Report governance status, documentation gaps, unresolved decisions, and improvement priorities to program leadership and Government stakeholders • Provide guidance and knowledge transfer to data owners, stewards, analysts, and technical teams

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience • Bachelor’s degree in information systems, data management, business, or a related field, or a permitted equivalent • Experience establishing or maintaining data ownership assignments • Experience developing and maintaining business glossaries and data dictionaries • Experience managing metadata and documenting data lineage • Experience documenting or administering data retention requirements • Experience maintaining approved-use records and controls • Ability to maintain common identifiers and consistent data definitions across systems and workflows • Ability to apply DAMA-DMBOK-aligned data management practices • Ability to coordinate Government decisions on data definitions, access, and authoritative sources

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections • Authorization to have submitted resumes and personal information considered for this and comparable positions