Sr Data Governance Specialist

Founded in 2003, IT Concepts’ core values – customer-centricity, teamwork, driven to deliver, innovation, and integrity – ensure we work together to be the best, realize objectives, and make a positive impact in our communities. We intentionally created and sustain our ITC culture that embraces change, experimentation, continuous learning, and improvement. We bring our design thinking problem solving approach that challenges assumptions, prioritizes curiosity, and invites complexity to deliver innovative, efficient, and effective solutions. As we continue to grow in the support of our government customers, we are looking for driven and innovative individuals to join our team.

IT Concepts is seeking a Sr Data Governance Specialist to research, develop the Data Governance Strategy and operationalize the data governance strategy for the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, MD. We are seeking individuals who have implemented Data Governance Strategy in the federal government.

SSA has taken several steps already to meet the OMB’s directives specific to Federal Data Strategy. This resource will support SSA with the following:

1. Review what SSA already has in place.
2. Create a data governance strategy.
3. Provide data governance best practices.
4. Recommend steps for operationalizing the strategy.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Establish an enterprise data governance strategy
• Roll out an enterprise wide data governance framework
• Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards
• Document, assess, influence and synthesize business requirements to develop, enable and advance data governance and stewardship capabilities
• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics
• Develop and deploy quality control processes dealing with the data flows in EDW
• Maintain and promote key data governance deliverables/assets, including data policies, data standards and data management roles and decision frameworks.
• Provide leadership and guidance to SSA Management
• Research governance issues identified by stakeholders, and determine the appropriate processes to mitigate
• Suggest tools to support automating the governance processes
• Support SSA in implementing the data governance strategy

Requirements

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Masters degree and 8+ years of experience OR BS/BA degree and 14+ years of experience
• Senior level experience working in a large-scale data enterprise environment
• Expertise in data governance practices and issues related to management of enterprise information assets
• Strong ability to analyze business requirements, solve problems, and model current and future state business processes and data domains/entities
• Knowledge of data related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
• Strong technical proficiency and demonstrated ability with data management technologies such as data quality profiling tools, data catalog, and master data management
• Ability to perform basic project management functions such as project plan development and resource / time estimation of tasks
• Demonstrated consulting skills, including communication, culture change and performance measurement design

Clearance requirement

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Benefits

The Company

We believe in generating success collaboratively, enabling long-term mission success, and building trust for the next challenge. With you as our partner, let’s solve challenges, think innovatively, and maximize impact. As a valued member of our ITC community, you have the unique opportunity to work in a diverse range of technology and business career paths, all while supporting our nation and delivering innovative technology solutions. We are a close community of experts that pride ourselves on creating an environment defined by teamwork, dedication, and excellence.

We hold three ISO certifications (27001:2013, 20000-1:2011, 9001:2015) and two CMMI ML 3 ratings (DEV and SVC).

Industry Recognition

Growth | Inc 5000’s Fastest Growing Private Companies, DC Metro List Fastest Growing; Washington Business Journal: Fastest Growing Companies, Top Performing Small Technology Companies in Greater D.C.

Culture | Northern Virginia Technology Council Tech 100 Honoree; Virginia Best Place to Work; Washington Business Journal: Best Places to Work, Corporate Diversity Ind