Job opening: Data Steward
Salary: $62 107 - 115 079 per year
Published at: Jan 12 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
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, includ
Duties
**This job announcement is for NGA's Virtual Hiring Event scheduled for 30 January 2024.**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 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 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 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.This position may be eligible for a RECRUITMENT INCENTIVE: selected candidates may be offered an incentive as part of the offer of employment. To receive the incentive, selected candidates must be eligible under 5 CFR Part 575, Subpart A, upon issuance of the Final Offer Letter. Changes in federal employment status prior to issuance of the Final Offer Letter may affect eligibility. To receive the incentive, selected candidates will be required to sign a service agreement to stay within the position at NGA for the agreed upon time. If the service agreement is terminated before its completion, the employee may be required to repay a pro rata share amount of the incentive to the government. Additional information regarding recruitment incentives for current federal employees can be found in DoDI 1400.25, Volume 2006.
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 resumes 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 developing data set processes for data discovery, modeling, mining, and/or production.2. Demonstrated experience analyzing data, identifying inconsistencies, and/or cleaning data to a recognized standard.3. Demonstrated experience with designing, implementing, and/or managing databases.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 lensesDESIRABLE QUALIFICATION CRITERIA: In addition to the mandatory qualifications, experience in the following is desired: 1. Demonstrated experience completing geospatial projects using GIS and cartographic principles, tools, analysis and/or data management. Examples include feature extraction, managing metadata specifications, and analysis of spatial data.2. Demonstrated experience with identifying, defining, and promoting the standards for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) processes to the partners.3. Demonstrated experience working with different types of data storage/database technologies such as structured or unstructured.4. Demonstrated experience communicating data findings, analyses, or terms to a non-technical audience.
Contacts
- Address NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Mailstop: S44-HDR
7500 GEOINT Drive
Springfield, VA 22150
US
- Name: Recruitment
- Phone: 571-557-1999
- Email: [email protected]