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Aleknagik Technology, LLC (ATL) · 5 days ago

Data Governance Engineer

Falls Church City County, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

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.

IT ManagementSoftwareTechnical SupportWeb Design

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

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, PowerApps)

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

Qualification

Data engineeringMetadata managementAPI integrationData quality validationScripting SQLScripting PythonScripting ROperational controlsFederal complianceTechnical documentationCollaborationProblem-solving