Remote Data Governance & Management Lead

Summary

Analytica is seeking a Data Governance & Management Lead to support a federal government client engagement in the Washington, DC metro area. The ideal candidate will have experience in data management and leadership, with a focus on big data ecosystem, data governance, and establishing enterprise data literacy. Analytica offers competitive compensation, health care benefits, training and development funds, and 401k match.

Requirements

• US Citizen with the ability to secure US Federal Security Clearance
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience
• 10+ years of data management, data governance, data engineering, data modeling, data strategy
• 7+ years of experience successfully establishing effective data governance/management in a large, complex organization with expertise in data governance for big data space with knowledge of various MDM/entity resolution solutions
• 7+ years expertise in big data ecosystem for data integration, data storage, compute framework, analytics, and advanced visualization (i.e., ETL Tools, Streaming Tools, No-SQL data bases, Spark, Airflow, ELT tools like DBT, Reporting Tools, AI/ML Platforms)
• 7+ years of experience and knowledge of establishing an enterprise data literacy, education, and outreach plan
• Expertise in Databricks, with experience in Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, and Delta-Sharing
• Experience working in government or a large commercial enterprise in an enterprise architect, cloud architect, or data architect role where you have applied industry standards such as DAMA-DMBOK, DGI, TOGAF, or DoDAF at scale
• Experience and knowledge of Federal Data Strategy, Federal Open data initiatives and associated action plans
• Proven Ability to effectively communicate in writing and orally with a wide range of audiences and maintain interpersonal relationships
• Ability to work within time constraints and manage workstreams against critical deadlines

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and enhancement of a shared enterprise data environment that meets a diverse set of Analytics, Reporting, and Data Science federal requirements
• Lead teams that rapidly learn the client's current digital ecosystem and produce a future data landscape vision and strategy considering the transformation agenda and business goals
• Support federal clients in strengthening data governance efforts to include development, maintenance and updating of a strategic and tactical Data Strategy and Roadmap, Data Governance Adoption and Implementation Plan, including related data priorities, performance measures and indicators
• Support the implementation and operations of the Data Governance Board
• Establish, standardize, create efficiencies across our federal clients environments through shared data support services and document and evaluate client processes around data
• Recommend a framework for collecting and reporting on metrics or KPIs to measure the adoption of data policies/processes/standards and to measure the beneficial impacts of data governance
• Lead the overall efforts to expand the agile rollout of data governance/management strategies, policies, practices, processes, and key performance indicators (metrics) across a complex, loosely federated mission space
• Build relationships with client oversight offices (policy, privacy, legal), other stakeholders, and other program offices and directorates
• Engage and communicate with leadership – connecting strategy, policy, and planning for constituent groups that may not be familiar with data governance or management approaches
• Provides technical, strategic guidance on the development of metadata tags, Document Type Definitions (DTD), and schemas using appropriate technologies for representation of data and data relationships

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunities for bonuses
• Employer-paid health care
• Training and development funds
• 401k match