Data Quality / Governance Analyst

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a Data Quality / Governance Analyst to support data governance, accuracy, and cross-system alignment in a federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. The role validates data sources, maintains metadata and data standards, conducts quality checks, and collaborates with reporting teams, dashboard developers, data owners, and PMO leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Validate Task 3 data sources and assess accuracy, completeness, and reliability
• Maintain data dictionaries, metadata rules, tagging standards, and classification definitions
• Ensure consistency of KPIs, metrics, and datasets across Tasks 2 and 3
• Perform data reconciliation, profiling, cleansing, and quality checks
• Support cross-task data harmonization and integration workflows
• Identify data anomalies, gaps, or inconsistencies and recommend remediation steps
• Collaborate with dashboard teams, analysts, and system owners to align data definitions
• Maintain documentation for data governance processes, metadata rules, and data lineage
• Track source system changes, schema updates, and data dependency impacts
• Support adherence to federal data governance standards and reporting requirements
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of dashboard specifications, metric definitions, and reporting standardization under Data COE-owned standards

Requirements:

• Must be Current
• Active Secret clearance required
• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience in data governance, data quality, metadata management, or a directly related data management discipline
• Experience maintaining data dictionaries, metadata rules, and standardized data fields
• Experience performing data validation, profiling, or cleansing
• Demonstrated experience reconciling conflicting metrics across independent source systems, including diagnosing differences in definition, population/filter logic, refresh timing, and transformation logic
• Experience supporting cross-team or cross-system data harmonization efforts
• Strong High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
• Analytical and problem-solving ability, particularly in diagnosing the root cause of data discrepancies
• Clear written communication, including the ability to produce standards documentation, data dictionary entries, and remediation write-ups that non-technical stakeholders can act on
• Understanding of data governance frameworks, data quality principles, and metadata standards
• Proficiency with Excel, SQL, or similar tools for data validation and analysis
• Familiarity with KPI frameworks and structured metric definitions
• Working knowledge of PII handling and Privacy Act requirements as applied to reporting, including aggregation practices and small-cell suppression thresholds for sensitive population data
• Experience with Power BI, including Power Query/M and DAX; Tableau, Grafana, or similar BI tools
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms or ETL/ELT tools
• Familiarity with data catalog or governance tooling
• Familiarity with the DoD Data Strategy (VAULTIS)
• ITIL v4 Foundation
• Data governance or data management certifications