Data Governance & Metadata Analyst
About The Position
The Data Governance & Metadata Analyst is responsible for defining, governing, and enforcing enterprise metadata workflows across domains. This role leads the design and execution of metadata creation, review, approval, and publication processes, ensuring consistency, completeness, and alignment with established standards. The Lead Business Analyst facilitates workshops with data stewards and subject matter experts to harmonize definitions, resolve conflicts, and drive consensus, while establishing quality checkpoints to ensure metadata accuracy and readiness for publication. Acting as a senior working‑level authority, the role provides analytical leadership, ensures adherence to governance practices, and supports scalable, repeatable metadata management across a federal health entity. Additional work may include quality assurance and testing, technical writing, understanding end-user needs and experiences, having a training mindset to support customer learning, and establishing data management and governance practices. This role is not focused on advanced modeling, dashboard development, or data engineering.
Requirements
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "SECRET" security clearance; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of clearance prior to onboarding with Guidehouse.
- Bachelor’s degree
- FIVE (5) or more years of experience with data health system with TWO (2) or more of those years in Defense Health Agency (DHA) and/or military health data systems
- THREE (3) or more years experience working with Metadata
- Must be able to go on client site in Falls Church, VA
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Healthcare/Health systems data
- Experience with Veterans Affairs data systems
- Masters in Business And/or Data analytics
- Experience conducting structured interviews and facilitating discussions with technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience capturing and documenting metadata using standardized templates.
- Experience with technical writing, developing data related reports and documents.
- Experience with quality assurance and testing.
- Experience with end-user training, developing materials and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design and enforce metadata lifecycle workflows, including creation, review, approval, and publication processes.
- Lead metadata harmonization workshops with data stewards and SMEs to resolve definition conflicts and align standards.
- Establish and apply completeness and quality checkpoints for metadata validation.
- Provide working‑level leadership for metadata governance execution across domains.
- Draft and maintain governance artifacts, process documentation, and workflow definitions.
- Escalate unresolved metadata disputes or definition conflicts to governance, information architecture, or program leadership as appropriate.
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Basic Life & Supplemental Life
- Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Student Loan PayDown
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
- Skills Development & Certifications
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
- Mobility Stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
