Data Steward (Mid-Senior) Jobs

Job Summary

ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION: Data Stewards apply data management principles, governance guidelines, and understanding of data holdings to review, approve, and manage data in support of broad customer requirements for geospatial or organizational data. They facilitate effective data production and storage by aligning organizational processes (e.g., data sharing, metadata creation/maintenance) to governance requirements, including using data workflow technologies (e.g., Collibra) to automate and improve data management. They apply logic to categorize data, document how data categories relate to each other, and maintain ontology (e.g., data dictionary names, data integrity rules). They ensure application of appropriate security controls and conformance to data policies, standards, and any legal or regulatory requirements. They evaluate the state of data and determine methods to improve data quality, usability, and availability. Data Stewards advocate for and train others on data management best practices and work with customers to qualify all data management metrics across the data lifecycle. They may serve in roles that provide direct customer support for the extraction, analysis, ingest, restructuring, and finishing of data, as well as prepare and validate data for web publishing.

Additional Job Information

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: NGA seeks a Data Steward to work at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio to support the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) and National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC) GEOINT requirements. The Data Steward would join a team of data professionals to provide GEOINT analytic support to the NASIC and NSIC missions to discover and characterize air, space, counterspace, missile, and cyber threats to enable full-spectrum multi-domain operations, drive weapons system acquisition, and inform national defense policy. Additional Application Requirement: You may be asked to complete one or more assessments in addition to the application you submit on this website as part of your application to NGA. These assessments may include but are not limited to: 1) Online questionnaires or assessments that require you to describe your job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, or other characteristics that are aligned with the mandatory and desirable qualifications of this job posting. The information you provide in the application you submit must support the response you provide to this questionnaire. You will receive an email to describe any additional assessments required. Please monitor your emails and complete any required assessments as soon as possible.

Mandatory Qualifications

MANDATORY QUALIFICATION CRITERIA: For this particular job, applicants must meet all competencies reflected under the Mandatory Qualification Criteria to include education (if required). Online applications must demonstrate qualification by providing specific examples and associated results, in response to the announcement's mandatory criteria specified in this vacancy announcement: 1. Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and/or managing databases. 2. Demonstrated experience developing data set processes for data discovery, modeling, mining, and/or production. 3. Demonstrated experience documenting, testing and/or maintaining data within databases for quality assurance. EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: A. Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Systems, Data Management, Data Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Cartography, Geospatial Sciences, Physical Sciences, or bachelor's degree with 30 semester hours in a combination of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics. -OR- B. Combination of Education and Experience: A minimum of 30 semester (45 quarter) hours of coursework in any area listed in option A. At least 15 of the 30 semester hours must have included any combination of statistics and mathematics, plus experience that involves management of data within databases, or in a related area that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the duties associated with this work. As a rule, every 30 semester (45 quarter) hours of coursework is equivalent to one year of experience. Candidates should show that their combination of education and experience totals 4 years. -OR- C. Experience: A minimum of 4 years of experience that involves management of databases or in a related field that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the duties associated with this work. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENT: Distinguish principal colors and shades/hues of principal colors; Near visual acuity of 20/60 or better with or without corrective lenses

Highly Desired Qualifications

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA: In addition to the mandatory qualifications, experience in the following is desired: 1. Demonstrated experience with one or more computing languages and/or tools e.g., scripting languages. 2. Demonstrated experience working with different types of data storage/database technologies such as structured or unstructured. 3. Demonstrated experience communicating data findings, analyses, or terms to a non-technical audience.

Additional Job Requirements

You must be able to obtain and retain a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information. In addition, you are subject to a Counterintelligence Polygraph examination in order to maintain access to Top Secret information. All employees are subject to a periodic examination on a random basis in order to determine continued eligibility. Refusal to take the examination may result in denial of access to Top Secret information, SAP, and/or unescorted access to SCIFs. Employees with SCI access and who are under NGA cognizance are required to submit a Security Financial Disclosure Report, SF-714, on an annual basis in order to determine continued eligibility. Failure to comply may negatively impact continued access to Top Secret information, Information Systems, SAP, and/or unescorted access to SCIFs.

Pay, Benefits, & Work Schedule

PROMOTION OPPORTUNITY: Promotion opportunities allow applicants at all band levels to be considered. Qualifications for NGA positions do not include specific time-in-band requirements. NGA will emphasize quality of experience, rather than duration, and assess how the quality of the experience demonstrates possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for successful job performance in the NGA occupational structure. Band 03 $71,533 - $132,538 PERMANENT CHANGE IN STATION: PCS expenses are not authorized. Pay is only part of the compensation you will earn working for the Federal Government. We offer a broad array of benefits programs and family friendly flexibilities to meet the needs of you and your family. For more information on the array of benefits programs, please visit https://www.intelligencecareers.gov/nga/ngabenefits.htm

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $71,533.00 - $132,538.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: One location