Data Governance Specialist

Position:
Data Governance Specialist

Company:
OPEN Data Jobs

Location:
United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Employment type:
Full time

Work Arrangement:
Hybrid

Short Summary:
Data Governance Specialists establish decision rights, policies, standards, roles, and measures to manage data as a strategic asset, turning expectations for quality, stewardship, access, and accountability into actionable practices.

Responsibilities:
- Build data-governance charters, policies, standards, and decision-rights models.
- Create stewardship structures, governance forums, issue-management workflows, and escalation paths.
- Develop data-quality rules, metrics, exception processes, and improvement plans.
- Establish accountability models connecting data owners, managers, inventory leads, metadata specialists, and technical teams.
- Implement governance processes for AI system and data risk.

Requirement:
- Experience in designing or operating data-governance, stewardship, or data-management programs.
- Ability to define data standards, policies, decision rights, metrics, and issue-management processes.
- Working knowledge of data quality, metadata, inventories, lineage, and lifecycle concepts.
- Experience facilitating cross-functional governance forums and communicating with stakeholders.
- Ability to align governance practices with federal data strategy and organizational risk management.

Benefits:
Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening.