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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Governance Engineer, Lead - **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. - **Location:** Columbia, MD, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $99,000.0 - $225,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Engineering, Signals Intelligence, Customer Data Management, Data Discovery, Data Governance, Data Sharing, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Data Flow Control, Data Processing, Data Strategy, Data Management - **Published:** July 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9043725/data-governance-engineer-lead ## About the Role Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national security? You understand your customer's environment and how to develop the right solutions for their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into technical specifications makes you an integral part of delivering a customer-focused engineering solution., * 15+ years of experience working on contracts for the federal government * Experience defining and applying data tagging and handling requirements * Experience analyzing and defining data schemas and data processing requirements * Experience assisting with authoring and updating formal technical or policy documents * Experience developing capability-level and functional requirements, mission scenarios, use cases, or business processes * Knowledge of data governance concepts such as data provenance, classification, sizing, retention, data sharing, marking, and licensing * TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph * Bachelor's degree in an IT Engineering field and 15+ years of experience with systems engineering, or 20+ years of experience with systems engineering in lieu of a degree * Experience defining requirements, architecture, or design elements for systems or sof t war e that deal with data exchange, interfaces, or APIs * Experience with data science * Experience defining and modeling business processes and workflows, and identifying mechanisms and approaches for process improvement or automation * Knowledge of DoD agency policies and directives as they apply to IT signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection, dataflow, and information sharing with internal and external partners * Knowledge of DoD or IC data formats and legal authorities for mission data * Knowledge of SIGINT or cyber data discovery and analysis met hods Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information ; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required. ## Description As a Data Governance Engineer on our team, you'll have the chance to shape the evolution of mission data governance by leading modernization efforts for the client's enterprise data team. Your customer will t rus t you to provide governance support for customer data needs, specify policy and governance criteria, data handling, priority, and other requirements for data, coordinate with data platforms and providers, and define processes, business rules, and functional requirements for mission systems that support the data management lifecycle. You will assist with authoring and managing data policies , and develop and execute implementation plans for those policies . You will mentor and train data ste war ds on how to manage their data. You will work closely with customers and stakeholders across a variety of roles and teams to plan and implement a modernized data strategy to support national missions. On our team, you'll be able to broaden your skill set into areas like modern data management and transport concepts, data science, data handling and tagging, and data schema development and validation. Grow your skills by merging system engineering and mission data governance to create modernized processes and systems supporting enterprise data governance for a national security client. 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