Technical Metadata Specialist

Aleknagik TechnologyFalls Church, VA
2dHybrid

About The Position

Aleknagik Technology, LLC is searching for a qualified candidate to fill the role of Technical Metadata Specialist. This position supports enterprise-level data governance initiatives for a federal health organization by ensuring metadata across authoritative and secondary-use data systems is accurate, complete, standardized, and usable. The selected candidate must be within commuting distance of Falls Church, VA, as this role requires on-site and hybrid support in alignment with customer requirements.

Requirements

  • 4–7 years of experience in: Metadata analysis, management, and data modeling fundamentals
  • Development and maintenance of data dictionaries, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies
  • Metadata quality assessment and validation techniques
  • Enterprise data catalog platforms
  • DoD, DHA, or federal data standards and compliance frameworks
  • Technical documentation and stakeholder coordination
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as: Engineering Information Technology Data Analytics Mathematics Physical or Life Sciences

Responsibilities

  • Analyze metadata collected during baseline inventory efforts for authoritative and secondary-use data systems.
  • Review technical, business, operational, and security metadata for completeness, accuracy, and consistency.
  • Identify metadata gaps, duplications, inconsistencies, and ambiguities across systems and domains.
  • Collaborate with system owners, data stewards, and subject matter experts to resolve metadata issues.
  • Normalize metadata values to align with approved standards, naming conventions, schemas, and taxonomies.
  • Apply controlled vocabularies and reference data to ensure semantic consistency across domains.
  • Align data element definitions with DoD, DHA, and NIST standards.
  • Perform metadata quality checks, including validation of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and consistency.
  • Document metadata quality issues and support corrective and remediation activities.
  • Support development and maintenance of metadata quality metrics and dashboards.
  • Develop, review, and maintain technical and business data dictionaries.
  • Validate AI-generated metadata documentation for accuracy, clarity, and usability.
  • Ensure alignment between documented metadata and system implementations.
  • Support metadata lifecycle workflows including creation, review, approval, publication, versioning, and retirement.
  • Assist data stewards with metadata stewardship responsibilities and approval tracking.
  • Support audit readiness through traceable metadata changes and stewardship decisions.
  • Validate metadata synchronization across the interim repository, DHA Enterprise Data Catalog (DHA-EDC), and federated platforms.
  • Identify and report discrepancies in federated metadata exchanges and support remediation efforts.
  • Support user acceptance testing (UAT) for metadata search, discovery, and usability features.
  • Capture user feedback and recommend improvements to metadata presentation and organization.
  • Support optional federated governance initiatives and metadata requirements for data products when exercised.
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