Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 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
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Fully remote
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