Data Governance & Quality Analyst

Data Governance & Quality Analyst

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as Data Governance & Quality Analyst at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.

The Advana team is seeking a Data Governance & Quality Analyst to join their program. Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office's (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoW military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.

Responsibilities include:

• Executing data governance and data quality operations that support metadata accuracy, controlled access, and compliant data usage across Advana systems operating on Unclassified and NIPR, Secret and SIPR, and Top Secret and JWICS enclaves.
• Maintaining data catalog entries, verifying metadata completeness, updating lineage information, and validating role-based access controls using platforms such as Collibra, Apache Atlas, and Databricks Unity Catalog.
• Performing data quality assessments that analyze completeness, schema conformity, reference integrity, and anomaly patterns using Databricks workflows, SQL validation checks, and automated profiling tools.
• Processing data-access requests by reviewing justification, confirming stewardship approval, validating policy alignment, and updating role entitlements.
• Coordinating with data engineers to document domain models, governance rules, and pipeline-level quality constraints.
• Supporting development of training materials, stewardship guides, onboarding manuals, and governance communication products distributed to mission users.
• Collecting feedback from data stewards, consolidating analytic observations, and preparing improvement recommendations for governance leadership.
• Tracking metrics including catalog update frequency, quality defect volume, remediation cycle time, and user engagement with governance tools.
• Producing recurring reports and documentation that strengthen governance transparency and operational discipline.

Salary range for this position is $111,155 - $150,385. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled weekly hours: 40

Travel required: None

Telecommuting options: Remote

Work location: USA VA Falls Church

Additional work locations:

Total rewards at GDIT include a variety of medical plan options, dental plan options, a vision plan, a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.