Data Governance Engineer

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Aleknagik Technology, LLC is searching for a qualified candidate to fill the role of Data Governance Engineer
. This position supports enterprise-level data governance initiatives for a federal health organization and requires close collaboration with technical, security, and mission stakeholders.

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.

• Engineer and execute technical workflows supporting the baseline inventory of authoritative and secondary-use data systems.
• Configure and maintain structured metadata capture templates and tooling to ensure consistent and standards-based data collection.
• Support ingestion of system metadata, technical attributes, interfaces, and data flows into centralized governance repositories.
• Validate metadata for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and alignment with defined governance standards.
• Configure, maintain, and secure interim centralized repositories using approved platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Power Apps).
• Implement technical controls for access management, versioning, audit logging, and data segregation.
• Develop and maintain workflows for metadata submission, review, update, approval, and archival.
• Support technical evaluation and prototyping activities for enterprise data catalog solutions.
• Develop scripts and pipelines using SQL, Python, R, and other approved tools to automate metadata harvesting from source systems.
• Implement automated metadata refresh, validation, and quality assurance routines.
• Support AI-assisted documentation and metadata generation using approved tools.
• Implement metadata standards, schemas, data dictionaries, and lifecycle workflows.
• Configure data quality indicators, dashboards, and exception alerts.
• Execute technical compliance checks supporting HIPAA, DoD, and DHA governance requirements.
• Engineer and maintain federated metadata exchange mechanisms between internal and external catalog platforms.
• Support self-service data discovery features, user acceptance testing (UAT), and performance tuning.
• Collect and analyze usage metrics, system logs, and operational performance indicators.
• Develop technical documentation, user guides, and operational support materials.
• Support optional federated governance workflows and data product lifecycle automation, including versioning, SLAs, and deprecation.

• 4-7 years of experience in data engineering, automation, and scripting (SQL, Python, R).
• Experience with metadata management and data catalog platforms.
• Experience with API integration and metadata exchange mechanisms.
• Experience in data quality validation and operational controls.
• Experience in federated or hybrid data environments.
• Experience with DoD, DHA, or federal compliance and security frameworks.
• Experience in technical documentation and operational sustainment.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as Engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as Information Technology.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as Data Analytics.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as Mathematics.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as Physical or Life Sciences.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

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