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# Data Governance - Senior Consultant

- **Company:** Guidehouse Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $98,000.0 - $163,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Governance, Data Lineage, Data Management
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://guidehouse.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/US---DC-Washington/Data-Governance---Senior-Consultant_43829

## About the Role

* An ACTIVE and Maintained Top Secret Federal security clearance.
 * US Citizenship is contractually required.
 * Must be able to be on site 5x per week in a SCIF.
 * Minimum of FIVE (5)+ years of overall work experience.
 * Associate's degree required. EIGHT (8)+ years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
 * Client-facing consulting experience
 * Data collection and analysis experience
 * Executive briefings and presentations experience
 * Coordination around commercially available information (CAI) programs experience

What Would Be Nice To Have:

 * Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills
 * Department of Justice experience a plus

## Description

You will support a premier law enforcement client's data program and work to review their current data and analytics capabilities. The consultant will partner with data engineers, analysts, and government stakeholders to support enterprise data integration initiatives and resolve data compliance issues. Additionally, the consultant would be responsible for the following:

 * Maintain accurate and consistent data inventories while ensuring adherence to government policies and internal governance standards.
 * Document and trace data lineage across governance systems to improve transparency and accountability throughout the data lifecycle.
 * Conduct recurring data quality audits and dataset profiling to identify anomalies and strengthen validation procedures.
 * Collaborate across teams to improve data management processes and ensure policy aligned data collection, processing, and reporting.


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