Data Quality / Governance Analyst

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Data Quality / Governance Analyst to support data integrity, metadata management, and cross-task data harmonization for a large federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This role validates data sources, enforces metadata rules, manages data dictionaries, and ensures data accuracy for reporting, dashboards, and analytics. 

The Data Quality / Governance Analyst works closely with Task 2 and Task 3 teams, dashboard developers, system owners, and PMO leadership to ensure enterprise-wide data consistency and compliance with governance standards. 

This position is fully remote. 

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.** 

Duties & Responsibilities

The Data Quality / Governance Analyst will: 

• Validate data sources and evaluate accuracy, completeness, and reliability of incoming datasets. 

• Maintain and update data dictionaries, metadata definitions, tagging standards, and classification rules. 

• Ensure consistency of KPIs, metrics, and data fields across Task 2 and Task 3 reporting requirements. 

• Perform data reconciliation, profiling, cleansing, and quality checks. 

• Support cross-task data harmonization and integration workflows. 

• Identify data discrepancies, gaps, anomalies, and recommend corrective actions. 

• Collaborate with analysts, dashboard developers, and system SMEs to align on data definitions. 

• Maintain documentation for data governance procedures, metadata rules, and quality standards. 

• Track data lineage, source changes, and data dependency impacts. 

• Support compliance with federal data governance and reporting standards. 

• Provide input to the Dashboard Management Plan and data architecture processes. 

Qualifications

Clearance Requirement 

Candidate must possess a Tier 2 Moderate Risk Public Trust (from any federal agency) or an active Secret clearance or higher. 

 

Education (Required) 

Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field. 

 

Experience (Required) 

• Minimum 5 years of experience in data quality, data governance, metadata management, or related analytics roles. 

• Experience developing or maintaining data dictionaries and metadata rules. 

• Experience performing data validation, reconciliation, profiling, or cleansing. 

• Experience supporting cross-team or cross-system data harmonization in federal or enterprise environments. 

 

Technical Knowledge (Required) 

• Familiarity with data governance frameworks, metadata management practices, and lineage tracking. 

• Proficiency with Excel, SQL, or data analysis tools for profiling and validation. 

• Understanding of KPI frameworks and standardized metric definitions. 

Technical Knowledge (Preferred) 

• Experience working with BI dashboards (Power BI, Tableau, Grafana). 

• Familiarity with cloud-based data environments or ETL tools. 

 

Certifications 

Preferred: 

• ITIL v4 Foundation 

• Data governance, data management, or analytics certifications 

 

Skills 

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy. 

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Ability to coordinate across multiple technical and business teams. 

• Strong documentation and communication abilities. 

• Ability to track, reconcile, and harmonize complex datasets. 

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
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