Nakupuna Federal is seeking a Metadata & Governance Subject Matter Expert (SME) to design and implement metadata frameworks, catalog configurations, and governance models for the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to ensure that DHA’s clinical, operational, and readiness data can be trusted, discoverable, and reusable across the enterprise.
Requirements
- Experience with metadata management, catalog configuration (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Talend), and data governance in a federal or healthcare setting
- Knowledge of DoD Responsible AI principles and metadata requirements for AI/ML workflows
- Experience evaluating and recommending COTS enterprise data catalog solutions, ensuring cost-effectiveness, scalability, and security
- Prior work with DoD enterprise data platforms such as ADVANA, VAULTIS, VANTAGE, or MAVEN
- Proven ability to design and enforce metadata frameworks that enable interoperability with DoD and DHA systems
- Experience developing and implementing federated governance playbooks
- Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) or DAMA; ITIL or CGRC (formerly CAP)
Responsibilities
- Design and implement metadata schemas, repositories, and classification rules for DHA’s enterprise data catalog.
- Define data stewardship roles, governance workflows, and federated decision-making processes.
- Develop machine-readable data contracts and enforce lifecycle governance standards across domains.
- Ensure metadata enrichment and lineage are validated and meet compliance requirements for PHI/PII/CUI.
- Contribute to AI/ML readiness by embedding explainability, lineage, and compliance into catalog design.
- Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and DHA stakeholders to align governance practices with mission needs.
- Support production of governance playbooks, compliance traceability matrices, and metadata enrichment reports.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Information Management, Computer Science, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred
- 8–10+ years of experience
- Must have the ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time to DHA HQ, stakeholder sites, or partner facilities across CONUS
- Demonstrated understanding of HIPAA, PHI/PII/CUI protections, and compliance with NIST SP 800-171 and DFARS 252.204-7012
