Data Governance & Strategy - Lead

Company Description

Citizant is a leading provider of professional IT services to the U.S. government. We seek to address some of our country’s most pressing challenges in the areas of Agile application development, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, Product Management, and Program Management support services. We strive to hire only ethical, talented, passionate and committed “A Players” who already align with the company’s core values: Drive, Delivering Excellence, Reputation, Responsibility, and a Better Future. No matter how large we grow, Citizant will retain its collaborative, supportive, small-company culture, where successful team effort to address external and internal customer challenges is valued above all else.

Job Description

Position Details:

The ideal candidate will be responsible for the formation and execution of the data governance framework, policy, standards, and tools. This role is responsible for creating, managing, and driving the Data Governance, Data Migration, Analytics, and Data Quality framework/strategy for enterprise data and analytics.

Location: Remote

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the right balance between flexibility, agility, and data governance and data migration standards according to each business requirement and environment.
• Business prioritization on Governance against other projects, efforts that require resources, time, and effort. This role will need to ensure leadership in driving the business to understand the importance and value of Reporting & Data Governance in a Data-Driven Company.
• Share expertise with project teams to ensure Enterprise Master & Reference Data enabling solutions (MDM), metadata solutions, and data quality solutions are designed and developed following best practices for data management.
• Support the delivery of technology assets in the Data Warehouse and Reporting space. This will include PowerBI, SQL, and other tools.
• Design and report on process performance metrics for data governance, data management, data quality and metadata management
• Owns standards, rules, procedures for Reporting within.
• Assist in defining the data management vision and implementing data management strategies and processes.
• Inventory and understand internal and external data.
• Monitor data governance processes.
• Identify opportunities and processes to ensure data meets the following characteristics, including but not limited to accuracy, validity, reliability, timeliness, relevance, and completeness.
• Develop/build/maintain metadata dashboards, monitor and track data quality issues, identify and close gaps in collaboration with business and IT groups.
• Communication lead of the information governance roadmap to senior management and governance committees.

Qualifications

Required Skillset:                                   

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience in data management, data analytics, data standards management, and data governance.
• Exposure to Data Governance and large-scale data management environments.
• Must have Federal experience
• Experience with Federal Finance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of Agile processes and Scrum (preferred)

Education/Certification Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience

Clearance Requirement:

• Active Public Trust Clearance or the ability to obtain one
• Must be a US Citizen

Additional Information

Citizant strives to be an employer of choice in the Washington metropolitan area. Citizant associates accept challenging and rewarding work and in return receive excellent compensation and benefits, as well as the opportunity for personal and professional development. 

Citizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.