Data Governance & Metadata Scientist - Mid

Location: Doral, FL

• Establish and maintain metadata governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with DoD data management policies and interoperability with a 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.

• Possess the 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.
• Must be 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.
• Must have demonstrated experience in implementing metadata governance frameworks for structured and unstructured data in cloud-based environments.
• Must have demonstrated experience in tracking data lineage and ensuring metadata synchronization across a Data Catalog, ESRI Kubernetes, and enterprise metadata repositories.
• Must have demonstrated experience in utilizing OpenLineage, Apache Atlas, or similar tools for metadata and data lineage management.
• Must have demonstrated experience in enforcing compliance with DoD metadata policies and NSG tradecraft standards for geospatial datasets.

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

ABOUT NALLEY CONSULTING

Nalley Consulting is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business working with prime partners to staff Department of Defense and Intelligence Community positions. Created by a U.S. Navy intelligence veteran, Nalley Consulting has grown to include multiple IDIQ vehicles in several states.

Nalley Consulting fringe benefits include:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
• PTO
• 11 paid federal holidays
• Tuition assistance
• Paid military-reserve leave
• Paid parental leave for birth or adoption
• 401k matching up to 5 percent of the base salary
• Flex time
• Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.