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Data Governance Specialist
OPEN Data Jobs·General Data Management · Data Governance
🏢Hybrid
|Washington, United States of AmericaData Governance Specialist
OPEN Data Jobs | General Data Management | Data Governance
Hybrid
Full Time
United States of America, Washington
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.
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.
Required Languages
🇬🇧 English
Key competency: General Data Management