Governance Data Architect

Aleknagik Technology, LLC is searching for a qualified candidate to fill the role of Governance Data Architect. This position supports enterprise-level data governance initiatives for a federal health organization and requires close collaboration with technical, security, and mission stakeholders.

The selected candidate must be within commuting distance of Falls Church, VA, as this role requires on-site and hybrid support in alignment with customer requirements.

Duties:

The Governance Data Architect is responsible for designing and enabling enterprise data governance capabilities across a federated data environment. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Define and maintain enterprise data governance architecture supporting a federated data ecosystem.
• Translate data governance policy and compliance requirements into implementable technical designs, patterns, and workflows.
• Establish architectural standards for metadata management, stewardship, lineage, classification, and policy enforcement.
• Ensure alignment with DoD, DHA, NIST, HIPAA, FISMA, RMF, and Zero Trust requirements.
• Define metadata models and baseline data inventory frameworks cataloging authoritative and secondary-use data systems.
• Establish standardized technical, business, operational, and security metadata elements.
• Architect interim centralized repositories using approved platforms, ensuring proper access controls, versioning, and auditability.
• Ensure repository and inventory designs are forward-compatible with enterprise data catalog solutions.
• Support Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) efforts for enterprise data catalog platforms, including definition of evaluation criteria and technical assessments.
• Define enterprise metadata standards, taxonomies, naming conventions, and lifecycle workflows.
• Architect federated metadata exchange patterns across internal and external catalog platforms.
• Enable role-based self-service data discovery and stewardship workflows.
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT), usability assessments, and adoption strategies.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, system owners, SMEs, and security stakeholders.
• Provide architectural guidance for optional federated governance models and data product lifecycle management.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 47 years of experience in:
• Enterprise data governance and data architecture
• Metadata management and data catalog platforms
• Federated or hybrid data architectures
• DoD or federal data policy and compliance environments
• Translating governance policy into technical implementations
• Stakeholder engagement and technical leadership
• Risk-aware architecture and ATO-sensitive system design

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as:
• Engineering
• Information Technology
• Data Analytics
• Mathematics
• Physical or Life Sciences