Data Governance: Data Lead
Location: United States - Remote
Department: Data Services
Attain Partners is an innovative consulting firm dedicated to disrupting the status quo to change the world and improve the lives of those we touch. From strategy to technology and everywhere in between, our experts use their unique skills to advance the important missions of education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government clients.
People are at the center of all we do, and that’s why we empower career growth, provide industry-leading benefits packages, encourage a flexible work environment, and foster a culture of inclusion to support the needs of our team. We share a collective passion for our mission and our people. Guided by our seven core values, The Attain Way, our vision is the foundation of our culture—to be and attain the best.
Job Description
The Data Governance: Data Lead will play a pivotal role in developing and executing data governance strategies across a federated data environment. This role is responsible for establishing and enforcing metadata standards, defining data ownership models, facilitating definition alignment workshops, and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of critical governance artifacts such as the enterprise data dictionary. The successful candidate will act as the central coordination point between business stakeholders, data stewards, and technical teams to drive clarity, consistency, and accountability across data assets.
Job Responsibilities
- Governance Framework Development: Own the creation and implementation of governance rules, standards, and processes to ensure data quality, accessibility, and compliance across systems.
- Workshop Facilitation: Lead targeted workshops with cross-functional teams to align on definitions of key entities such as Customer and Account, and to identify domain-level hierarchical relationships and downstream system dependencies.
- Metadata Management & Dictionary Design: Define metadata requirements and lead the creation of a centralized data dictionary. Align business and IT teams to populate and maintain key fields for high-priority domains (Customer, Account, Product, Financial).
- Policy & Standards Definition: Establish and document naming conventions, data classifications, update frequency guidelines, and stewardship responsibilities.
- Collaboration with Data Stewards & SMEs: Engage data owners, business SMEs, and IT architects to capture, refine, and validate metadata and domain-specific definitions.
- Federated Model Enablement: Support the federated data model blueprint by ensuring consistent and governed data definitions that can scale across distributed systems.
- Enablement & Roadmap Planning: Participate in final presentations, roadmap definition sessions, and documentation hand-offs to ensure long-term sustainability of governance processes.
Required Skills and Experience
- Proven experience in data governance, data stewardship, or data management roles
- Hands-on experience defining metadata models, domain ownership, and data governance RACI structures
- Strong facilitation and communication skills to lead stakeholder workshops and resolve definitional conflicts
- Familiarity with federated or distributed data architectures, including conceptual data modeling
- Ability to document and communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail and documentation quality
Additional Information
Attain Partners values your mental, emotional, and physical health and wellbeing. Our comprehensive benefits package starts on your first day of employment and includes benefits such as:
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, HSA and FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, fertility and family planning benefits, and employee assistance and discount programs
- 11 paid federal holidays and flexible unlimited time off (UTO)
- Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting
- Flexible career paths – our career tracks provide advancement, mobility, and flexibility as you continue to grow with us
- A healthy environment where we value unique experiences, and care about everything that makes you, you.
Attain Partners is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The individual base salary for this position is unique to each candidate and will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
Interested in this position but the compensation isn’t quite right? Let us know your expectations, and we’ll see if we can make it happen based on your qualifications.
Attain Partners is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws. For more Information visit EEO, EEO Poster Supplement, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA).
If you are unable to complete this application due to a disability, contact this employer to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.
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