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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Steward (JECC) - **Company:** Uncomn, LLC - **Location:** Norfolk, VA, United States - **Salary:** $78,000.0 - $98,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Data Systems, Meta-Data Management, Metadata Standards, Operational Data Store, Data Processing, Enterprise Integration, Data Management - **Published:** June 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2e6709dec5b4adb7 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Technical documentation?, * Active, fully adjudicated Secret level clearance, granted by the U.S. Government. * Experience supporting enterprise or operational data governance, stewardship, metadata management, and data quality practices. * Strong understanding of data governance, authoritative data source management, and experience defining data models, business rules, metadata standards, and data definitions. * Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, integration concepts, APIs, schemas, and interface standards. * Experience supporting operational reporting, analytics, or mission-focused data environments, and resolving data quality, consistency, governance, and interoperability issues. * Familiarity with security, classification, compliance, and data handling requirements. * Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical, operational, and leadership teams and manage multiple priorities. * Self-motivated, able to work independently in ambiguous environments, with experience working with business stakeholders and willingness to obtain required certifications * Must be willing to obtain relevant certifications as required by future client or contract needs. Preferred * Experience supporting DoD or federal operational environments and mission command / C2 data contexts. * Familiarity with operational planning, readiness, and enterprise data governance initiatives. * Experience supporting data integration, reporting, dashboards, decision-support tools, and audit/compliance activities. ## Description We've built a culture rooted in our Core Values, where innovation thrives, work-life balance is respected, and career growth is always encouraged. We're also proud to be recognized as a 'Top Workplace,' and that's not just us talking; it's our employees. Now, we're looking for another Uncommon Genius to join our dynamic team. If you love solving puzzles, building new things, fixing what's broken, or pushing the boundaries of creativity, we encourage you to explore the details of this position below! UNCOMN is seeking multiple Data Stewards (JECC) to: * Define, maintain, and document authoritative data definitions, business rules, metadata standards, and approved data sources. * Design and document logical and physical data architectures supporting multiple systems and mission domains. * Define and maintain data models, integration patterns, interface contracts, APIs, schemas, and message formats. * Apply and validate data handling practices in alignment with security, classification, governance, and compliance requirements. * Validate data readiness and usability for reporting, analytics, operational planning, and mission execution. * Serve as the primary stewardship point of contact for assigned data domains. * Serve as the authoritative voice on data meaning, fitness-for-use, trustworthiness, and operational applicability. * Collaborate with engineers, architects, integrators, and stakeholders to translate mission and operational needs into effective data and architectural solutions. * Advise leadership on data risks, governance considerations, quality impacts, and operational tradeoffs. * Participate in the resolution of cross-domain data disputes, definition conflicts, and data consistency issues. * Define, validate, and maintain authoritative operational data elements to ensure consistency and shared understanding across planning, execution, assessment, and reporting functions. * Conduct routine data quality reviews and coordinate corrective actions with system owners, engineers, and data integration teams to ensure data remains accurate, timely, complete, and mission relevant. * Oversee operational data flows across mission areas, identifying gaps, redundancies, and risks impacting situational awareness, operational reporting, or decision-making. * Support alignment of operational processes with enterprise data standards, governance frameworks, and compliance requirements while maintaining mission effectiveness. * Provide operational context and subject matter expertise to engineering, integration, and analytics teams to ensure technical solutions align with real-world operational requirements. * Enable operational reporting, dashboards, analytics, and decision-support capabilities by ensuring data is structured, documented, governed, and accessible. * Support operational planning activities, exercises, assessments, after-action reviews, and mission support activities through authoritative and reliable data management. * Assist with audits, leadership inquiries, operational reporting requests, and data-related taskings by providing accurate, defensible data and supporting documentation. * Coordinate across enterprise organizations, mission partners, and operational teams to translate operational requirements into integrated and authoritative data solutions. ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Data Governance in the Era of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1622-data-governance-in-the-era-of-ai) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) ## Related Articles - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Top Big Data Technologies That You Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/108-top-big-data-technologies-that-you-need-to-know) - [Dev Digest 162: AI careers, MCP, AWS best practices & floppy sweaters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/571-dev-digest-162-ai-careers-mcp-aws-best-practices-floppy-sweaters) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Why Attend a Developer Event in 2026?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/688-why-attend-a-developer-event-in-2026)