Data Governance & Catalog Specialist

The work

• Act as the primary quality and testing authority for data products, serving as the bridge between engineering teams and mission data consumers.
• Help advise mission partners at the Air Force Base on what good data products should look like, including service-level agreements (SLAs), service-level objectives (SLOs), availability expectations, and quality standards.
• Develop and execute test plans for data pipelines, APIs, and data products to ensure accuracy, completeness, reliability, and compliance with requirements.
• Perform functional testing from a consumer perspective, ensuring data is discoverable in the enterprise catalog, accessible through APIs, and aligned with documented metadata.
• Help mission users understand tools and methods for cleaning, interpreting, and translating raw data into structured, usable formats.
• Utilize catalog and metadata tools, automated metadata tagging services, Databricks, Snowflake, Palantir, and/or Collibra to support data quality validation and catalog readiness.
• Serve as a member of the Enabling Team, advocating for data mesh principles and supporting DME adoption by helping consumers find, understand, and use data products.
• Create and maintain user-facing documentation, tutorials, and "getting started" guides.
• Gather feedback from early adopters and mission partners to maintain a continuous improvement loop for both the data products and the underlying platform.

Here's what you need

• Must be a U.S. citizen with an active DoD Secret clearance and the ability to obtain a Top Secret
• Strong user-level experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman).
• Experience using data catalog interfaces such as Snowflake, Collibra and metadata tagging platforms.
• Familiarity with SQL and scripting languages (e.g., Python) for data validation, cleansing, and analysis.
• Experience in data quality assurance, functional testing, and developing technical documentation.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to understand data from both the technical engineering and mission-user perspectives.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate consumer needs into actionable technical feedback for developers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data mesh architecture or working within enabling/advocacy teams.
• Prior work with federal mission environments, especially Air Force or intelligence-aligned data platforms.
• Experience collaborating with early adopters or mission partners to refine data product design and quality standards.
• Background in developing user-friendly documentation and onboarding materials for data systems.

• This position is hybrid with 3 days' onsite required in Suitland, MD.
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Pay and benefits

As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below.

Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:

$86,400—$176,200 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included.

This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.