Establish and maintain metadata governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with DoD data management policies and interoperability with Data Catalog.
Develop automated metadata tagging processes to improve data discoverability, classification, and lineage tracking within the Common Intelligence Picture (CIP) platform.
Implement and manage data governance workflows, ensuring integration with OpenLineage, Unity Catalog, and GIS metadata standards.
Submit the Metadata & Data Governance Compliance Report, detailing lineage tracking, classification policies, and security enhancements.

Knowledge and capability to develop, implement, and maintain data governance frameworks, ensuring metadata consistency, lineage tracking, and interoperability between Data Lake, ESRI Kubernetes environments, and external data sources.
Proficient in metadata management, data lineage tracking (Unity Catalog/OpenLineage), schema alignment, and governance best practices.
Expertise in geospatial data standards, data cataloging, and compliance with DoD metadata policies is required.
Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Information Management, GIS, or a related field, or five (5) years of equivalent experience in data governance, metadata management, or geospatial data integration.
Demonstrated experience in implementing metadata governance frameworks for structured and unstructured data in cloud-based environments.
Tracking data lineage and ensuring metadata synchronization across a Data Catalog, ESRI Kubernetes, and enterprise metadata repositories.
Utilizing OpenLineage, Apache Atlas, or similar tools for metadata and data lineage management.
Enforcing compliance with DoD metadata policies and NSG tradecraft standards for geospatial datasets.

Data Governance, Metadata Scientist

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