Data Governance SME

About the role

Steampunk is seeking a Data Governance SME to design, implement, and help operationalize data governance practices — including metadata management, data cataloging, and stewardship workflows — for a large federal client's data environment, ensuring data assets are discoverable, trustworthy, and well-governed. The role also supports assessment of data quality, governance maturity, and AI-related data risk.

Responsibilities

• Assess current-state data assets, governance practices, and interoperability constraints, and deliver a Data Management Framework
• Implement and maintain data catalogs, metadata repositories, and business glossaries to improve data discoverability
• Support definition and rollout of data stewardship and ownership models, including issue management and lifecycle processes
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover trends and identify data quality issues informing remediation priorities
• Operate a data-quality remediation tracking process with monthly reporting, supporting identification and remediation of data quality issues
• Facilitate alignment between technical teams and business stakeholders on data definitions, quality expectations, and usage standards
• Support streamlined, user-centered data access-request workflows and access controls, in alignment with data classification principles
• Partner with the Data Architect to ensure the underlying data environment supports accurate, complete, and consistent data, including metadata capture and lineage tracking
• Deliver quarterly data maturity assessments with specific improvement recommendations, including catalog coverage and adoption metrics
• Communicate data quality and governance maturity findings