Data Governance & Metadata Analyst
Core
Define, govern, and enforce enterprise metadata workflows across domains, leading design and execution of metadata creation, review, approval, and publication processes to ensure consistency and alignment with standards.
Role type
Senior Data Governance & Metadata Analyst
Builds
Scalable, repeatable metadata management practices and governance artifacts for a federal health entity
Domain
Federal health / Defense Health Agency (DHA) / Military health data systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Metadata lifecycle management, metadata harmonization, workshop facilitation, quality checkpoint establishment, governance execution, technical writing, conflict resolution, process documentation
Preferred skills
Healthcare/Health systems data experience, Veterans Affairs data systems experience, structured interviewing, standardized template development, end-user training, quality assurance and testing
Technologies
Metadata management systems, data health systems
Responsibilities
Design and enforce metadata lifecycle workflows, lead metadata harmonization workshops with data stewards and SMEs, establish and apply completeness and quality checkpoints for metadata validation, provide working-level leadership for metadata governance execution, draft and maintain governance artifacts and process documentation, escalate unresolved metadata disputes to leadership
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with analytical leadership