Data Governance Engineer, Senior

About the role

The Data Governance Engineer, Senior role combines technical skills with big picture thinking to deliver solutions that support national security. You will lead modernization efforts for the client's enterprise data team, providing governance support, specifying policy and governance criteria, and coordinating with data platforms and providers.

Responsibilities

• Translate real-world needs into technical specifications
• Assist with authoring and managing data policies
• Develop and execute implementation plans for data policies
• Mentor and train data stewards on data management
• Work closely with customers and stakeholders to plan and implement a modernized data strategy
• Broaden your skill set into areas like modern data management, transport concepts, data science, data handling and tagging, and data schema development and validation

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT Engineering field and 7+ years of experience with systems engineering
• 12+ years of experience with systems engineering in lieu of a degree

Skills

• Experience defining requirements, architecture, or design elements for systems or software that deal with data exchange, interfaces, or APIs
• Experience with data science
• Experience 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

Benefits

At Booz Allen, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your total well-being. This includes health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. We also recognize and reward exceptional performance through our recognition awards program. Salary ranges from $86,900.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD).