Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GD Information Technology, Inc. (GDIT) is hiring a Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist for the Case Management Modernization program supporting the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The role implements and operates metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and lineage capabilities to make enterprise data discoverable, defined, and traceable, while supporting data governance, quality, and self-service use.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage capabilities
• Configure, administer, and maintain data governance, catalog, metadata, and lineage platforms
• Establish metadata standards, structures, naming conventions, and management practices
• Develop and maintain the enterprise and domain-level business glossary
• Capture and maintain business, technical, operational, and governance metadata
• Establish relationships between data assets, business terms, data elements, systems, applications, reports, and data products
• Implement and maintain end-to-end data lineage across critical data assets and data flows
• Integrate metadata from source systems, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI platforms, and other data environments
• Configure metadata ingestion, scanning, classification, tagging, and discovery capabilities
• Support automated metadata harvesting and synchronization where appropriate
• Implement data ownership, stewardship, certification, and approval workflows within governance platforms
• Support onboarding new data sources and systems into the data catalog, including configuration of automated metadata harvesting and scanning
• Configure integrations between the data catalog/metadata platform and other governance, data quality, and IT systems
• Ensure metadata accurately reflects data definitions, classifications, ownership, sensitivity, retention, and other governance attributes
• Partner with Data Governance Analysts, Data Quality Analysts, Data Architects, Data Stewards, and business stakeholders to maintain trusted metadata
• Support data discovery and self-service data access for authorized users
• Develop dashboards and reports measuring catalog adoption, metadata completeness, stewardship, lineage coverage, and governance maturity
• Monitor metadata quality and identify gaps, inconsistencies, and stale metadata
• Support integration between catalog, governance, data quality, security, privacy, and enterprise architecture capabilities
• Develop documentation, procedures, and operating standards for metadata and catalog management
• Provide training and support to Data Stewards and business users on catalog and metadata capabilities
• Continuously evaluate and improve metadata management and data discovery capabilities

Skills

• Data Lake
• Data Warehousing (DW)
• Enterprise Data
• Metadata Management
• 7 + years of related experience
• MA/MS degree with 5+ years of general experience in information systems and 7+ years of specialized experience
• Demonstrated experience in supporting enterprise data governance programs
• Experience translating governance policy into practical operational processes in delivery environments
• Experience governing high-sensitivity or regulated data with clear compliance expectations
• Experience with access management and operationalizing privacy requirements
• Experience partnering with security, governance, and engineering teams to implement compliant data sharing
• Strong process mapping, documentation, and business analysis skills
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business and technical teams
• Ability to translate policy and governance requirements into clear, actionable operational procedures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including development of training and change management materials
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and organizational skills
• Experience in Federal Government or regulated environments
• Experience with enterprise data governance/catalog platforms
• Experience with enterprise data governance frameworks and operating models
• Data management certification

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• A vision plan
• A 401(k) plan with the ability to contribute both pre- and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• Typically 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for vacations, personal business, and illness; prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
• An additional 10 paid holidays per year; prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
• Up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12-month period through the GDIT Paid Family Leave program, for eligible employees
• Short- and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available
• Remote work

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