Principal Data Lead
Core
Provide senior leadership for data strategy, governance, quality, and coordination across a complex federal healthcare data environment to improve data reliability and trusted use.
Role type
Principal Data Lead (Strategy & Governance)
Builds
Data standards, roadmaps, operating practices, and measurable outcomes for federal healthcare programs
Domain
Federal healthcare / Public sector data
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Enterprise data strategy leadership, data governance, data quality management, metadata management, data lineage, stakeholder alignment, technical translation
Preferred skills
Federal healthcare domain experience, Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, Unity Catalog, machine-readable documentation
Technologies
Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, Unity Catalog
Responsibilities
Lead execution of data strategy across multi-domain federal healthcare programs; Establish data supply chain and metadata maturity practices; Define governance for trusted-data promotion; Set and maintain data quality standards; Coordinate priorities across source-system teams and stakeholders; Provide senior oversight for data engineering practices; Translate program objectives into clear data standards and roadmaps
Seniority
Principal, enterprise/program leadership