Metadata & Governance SME

Overview

Design and implement metadata frameworks and governance for DHA data

Key Responsibilities

• metadata management
• governance workflows
• data contracts
• ai integration
• compliance monitoring
• training sessions

Tasks

-Contribute to AI/ML readiness by embedding explainability, lineage, and compliance into catalog design. -Define data stewardship roles, governance workflows, and federated decision-making processes. -Grow People: Take ownership of your work and actively contribute to team success by sharing expertise, mentoring colleagues, and supporting leadership development at every level. -Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and DHA stakeholders to align governance practices with mission needs. -Ensure metadata enrichment and lineage are validated and meet compliance requirements for PHI/PII/CUI. -Always Deliver: Consistently meet or exceed quality standards, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of assigned tasks and deliverables in support of DHA and Nakupuna Federal. -Develop machine-readable data contracts and enforce lifecycle governance standards across domains. -Conduct training and knowledge transfer sessions to build governance maturity within DHA. -Lifecycle Governance (Obj. 5): Developing machine-readable contracts and compliance monitoring processes. -Federated Governance (Obj. 3): Establishing governance workflows, roles, and decision rights. -Provide ongoing recommendations for improving DHA’s metadata and governance ecosystem based on best practices. -Metadata Management (Obj. 2): Designing schemas, configuring repositories, and enforcing standards for enrichment and lineage. -AI/ML Integration (Obj. 9): Ensuring metadata, lineage, and governance practices enable DHA’s Responsible AI objectives. -Support production of governance playbooks, compliance traceability matrices, and metadata enrichment reports. -Design and implement metadata schemas, repositories, and classification rules for DHA’s enterprise data catalog.

Requirements

• collibra
• metadata management
• secret clearance
• bachelor's
• dod ai
• hipaa

What You Bring

-Demonstrated understanding of HIPAA, PHI/PII/CUI protections, and compliance with NIST SP 800-171 and DFARS 252.204-7012. -Experience supporting the Military Health System or DHA data initiatives. -Proven ability to design and enforce metadata frameworks that enable interoperability with DoD and DHA systems. -8–10+ years of experience with metadata management, catalog configuration (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Talend), and data governance in a federal or healthcare setting -Experience developing and implementing federated governance playbooks. -Knowledge of DoD Responsible AI principles and metadata requirements for AI/ML workflows. -Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Information Management, Computer Science, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred. -Must have the ability to obtain a Secret clearance. -Prior work with DoD enterprise data platforms such as ADVANA, VAULTIS, VANTAGE, or MAVEN. -Ability to perform repetitive motions with the hands, wrists, and fingers. -Experience evaluating and recommending COTS enterprise data catalog solutions, ensuring cost-effectiveness, scalability, and security. -Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk and working on a computer. -Ability to engage in and follow audible communications in emergency situations.

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About Nakupuna Companies

-Blends national reach with small‑business agility. -Headquartered in Hawai‘i with expansion hubs in Arlington, Denver, Mechanicsburg, PA, Charleston, and Patuxent River. -Services include mission and business operations, custom software/IT, facilities & infrastructure, logistics, and environmental services. -Projects involve modernizing personnel systems and managing complex logistics and environmental programs for federal agencies. -Structured as a Native Hawaiian Organization‑owned group, uniting large and 8(a) small businesses under one agile umbrella.

Sector Specialisms

Security Clearance

-must be able to obtain a secret security clearance