Data Governance Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Columbia, MD

About The Position

Data Governance Engineer, Senior The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security? You understand your customer's environment and how to develop the right solutions for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution. As a Data Governance Engineer on our team, you’ll have the chance to shape the evolution of mission data governance by leading modernization efforts for the client's enterprise data team. Your customer will trust you to provide governance support for customer data needs, specify policy and governance criteria, data handling, priority, and other requirements for data, coordinate with data platforms and providers, and define processes, business rules, and functional requirements for mission systems that support the data management lifecycle. You will assist with authoring and managing data policies, and develop and execute implementation plans for those policies. You will mentor and train data stewards on how to manage their data. You will work closely with customers and stakeholders across a variety of roles and teams to plan and implement a modernized data strategy to support national missions. On our team, you'll be able to broaden your skill set into areas like modern data management and transport concepts, data science, data handling and tagging, and data schema development and validation. Grow your skills by merging system engineering and mission data governance to create modernized processes and systems supporting enterprise data governance for a national security client. Join our team and create the future of mission data governance in national security. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

7+ years of experience working on contracts for the federal government
Experience defining and applying data tagging and handling requirements
Experience analyzing and defining data schemas and data processing requirements
Experience assisting with authoring and updating formal technical or policy documents
Experience developing capability-level and functional requirements, mission scenarios, use cases, or business processes
Knowledge of data governance concepts such as data provenance, classification, sizing, retention, data sharing, marking, and licensing
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Bachelor’s degree in an IT Engineering field and 7+ years of experience with systems engineering, or 12+ years of experience with systems engineering in lieu of a degree

Nice To Haves

Experience defining requirements, architecture, or design elements for systems or software that deal with data exchange, interfaces, or APIs
Experience with data science
Defining and modeling business processes and workflows, and identifying mechanisms and approaches for process improvement or automation
Knowledge of DoD agency policies and directives as they apply to IT signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection, dataflow, and information sharing with internal and external partners
Knowledge of DoD or IC data formats and legal authorities for mission data
Knowledge of SIGINT or cyber data discovery and analysis methods

Responsibilities

provide governance support for customer data needs
specify policy and governance criteria, data handling, priority, and other requirements for data
coordinate with data platforms and providers
define processes, business rules, and functional requirements for mission systems that support the data management lifecycle
assist with authoring and managing data policies
develop and execute implementation plans for those policies
mentor and train data stewards on how to manage their data
work closely with customers and stakeholders across a variety of roles and teams to plan and implement a modernized data strategy to support national missions