Data Governance Specialist

Job description

Responsibilities We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Data Governance Specialist to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities: - Maintain and update data catalogs, business glossaries, metadata repositories, and classification tags to ensure authoritative metadata across enterprise datasets. - Execute routine data validation and quality checks; monitor data quality dashboards and document issues impacting accuracy, completeness, and consistency. - Apply governance standards, naming conventions, reference data updates, and schema/documentation per approved policies and procedures. - Support stewardship processes by coordinating with data stewards, system owners, and analytics teams to clarify business rules, data lineage, and source definitions. - Track governance workflows, prepare meeting materials, capture minutes and action items, and maintain evidence of governance activities for auditability. - Produce routine governance reports, data quality summaries, and metadata status updates for program leadership and stakeholders. - Support compliance activities by maintaining lineage diagrams, documenting data‑handling require...