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# Data Governance Engineer, Senior in Columbia

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Columbia, MO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $86,900.0 - $198,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Systems Engineering, Signals Intelligence, Customer Data Management, Data Discovery, Data Governance, Data Sharing, Database Schema, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Data Flow Control, Interoperability, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Data Streaming, Test Data, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Data Processing, Scripting, Apache Nifi
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/data-governance-engineer-senior-columbia-32030893

## About the Role

nAre you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on 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.\n, * 7+ years of experience working on contracts for the federal government
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 * Experience with data flow, Apache NiFi, or mission systems
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 * Experience defining and applying data tagging and handling requirements
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 * Experience analyzing and defining data schemas and data processing requirements
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 * Experience defining requirements, architecture, or design elements for systems or sof tware that deal with data exchange, interfaces, or APIs
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 * Knowledge of data governance concepts such as data provenance, classification, sizing, retention, data sharing, and marking
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 * TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
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 * Bachelor's degree in an IT Engineering field and 7+ years of experience with systems engineering, or 12+ years of experience with systems engineering in lieu of a degree
\n, * Experience with XKYS
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 * Experience developing capability level and functional requirements, mission scenarios, use cases, or business processes for automation
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 * Experience with scripting or coding in Python, JSON, XML, or JavaScript
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 * Knowledge of signals intelligence ( SIGINT ) or cyber data discovery and analysis met hods
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 * Knowledge of cross-domain technologies, concepts, or policies
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 * Knowledge of DoD agency policies and directives as they apply to IT SIGINT collection, dataflow, and information sharing with internal and external partners
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 * Knowledge of DoD or IC data formats and legal authorities for mission data
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## Description

nAs a Data Governance Engineer on our team, you have the chance to shape the evolution of mission data governance by leading modernization efforts for the client's enterprise data flow team. Your customer will t rus t you to provide Tier 1 operations support for customer data flow requests, specify data handling and usage requirements for new data flows, define, harden and test data schemas, determine met adata tagging to support data interoperability. You will coordinate with data flow service provider s and define processes, business rules, data standards, and functional requirements for mission systems that support effective data governance. You will work closely with customers and stakeholders across a variety of roles and teams to plan and implement dataflows supporting critical cyber missions.