Data Governance Specialist (Top secret required)

We are seeking a Data Governance Specialist to establish, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance capabilities supporting secure and effective use of mission and enterprise data. The candidate will work with technical, security, data, and mission stakeholders to develop governance frameworks, data catalogs, metadata standards, data quality processes, access controls, and data lineage capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, procedures, and operating models.
• Conduct enterprise data inventory, cataloging, classification, and metadata management.
• Define data ownership, stewardship, custodianship, and accountability models.
• Implement and maintain data access governance using RBAC and ABAC.
• Align data governance controls with applicable NIST and federal security requirements.
• Develop and maintain data quality processes including profiling, validation, monitoring, remediation, and reporting.
• Establish data lineage and traceability capabilities across systems and data pipelines.
• Support integration between data governance solutions, identity and access management platforms, and enterprise or IC data catalogs.
• Conduct stakeholder workshops and requirements-gathering sessions.
• Develop governance workflows, procedures, training materials, and implementation guidance.
• Produce data inventory reports, classification plans, data quality assessments, lineage documentation, and governance reports.

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing or implementing enterprise data governance programs.
• Strong knowledge of:
• Data governance
• Metadata management
• Data catalogs
• Data classification
• Data quality
• Data lineage
• Master/reference data concepts
• Experience with RBAC, ABAC, IAM, and access governance.
• Understanding of NIST security and data protection requirements.
• Experience working with structured and unstructured enterprise data.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and documentation skills.
• Ability to translate business and mission requirements into governance policies and technical requirements.