Information / Data Governance Analyst

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

Northrop Grumman's Chief Information Office is seeking an Information / Data Governance Analyst or Senior Analyst for the growing Information and Data Governance program. The Information Data Governance professionals will be members of the Information Architecture and Governance (IAG) organization within the Chief Data Office and will handle managing the development of corporate level data standards, Principles and Operating Practices (PrOP) and data policies.  

This role will include regular engagement with leaders across the enterprise including executives and requires sound business judgment, team building capabilities, and strong interpersonal skills. The successful applicant will also have strong executive presence, strong attention to detail, organizational abilities, be a self-starter, and be an effective communicator while presenting to executive leaders.

We will consider fulltime, virtual telecommuting candidates for the role. Alternatively, these roles can be in Northern VA, Linthicum, MD, or other major Northrop Grumman sites. Position can be hired as a Level 2 or Level 3 depending upon the candidate's experience and education

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Support the information and data governance strategy, framework, and architecture implementation:

• Create, refresh, communicate and implement information and data governance strategy, frameworks, operating models, and concepts including a federated engagement model

• Create, refresh, communicate and implement enterprise data management concepts such as data governance, data quality, master data management, metadata management lifecycle,

• Create and implement enterprise data standards and data policies

• Support and lead elements of the design, development, implementation and evolution of a long-term enterprise data management and governance program

• Embed and automate data management concepts into the technology landscape, processes, and design principles

• Implement data governance capabilities across data architecture tools and systems, including metadata, data quality, and metrics

• Participate in the selection, gap analysis, configuration, and implementation for data governance standards and policies into technology solutions, including data catalog and lineage, dictionary, and business glossaries

Support information and data governance engagement operations across the organization:

• Create partnerships with data authorities and other stakeholders to build data governance advocacy

• Triage and respond to requests for information governance guidance and support

• Support the execution of a federated model, data quality strategy, and metadata management strategy

• Support development of data knowledgebase (guidance, information, best practices, handbooks, guides, non-mandatory forms) for review through a standards process

• Build productive working relationships with the federated data governance groups within the company providing tools, capabilities, and frameworks to evolve the maturity of those federated working groups

• Collaborate with sector and functional information governance organizations to flow down information standards, data policies and PrOP

• Support identification and prioritization of data domain groups formed to make enterprise-wide decisions on data

• Work closely with business partners, process owners, data stewards (producers/consumers), to ensure that enterprise governance processes are followed for their respective domain/process

• Supply input and deliver education and training on data governance concepts, standards, guidelines, and processes to scale enterprise data literacy

• Ensure policies and controls are properly defined, communicated, and implemented to manage proper use of critical data assets

Support the Enterprise Information Governance Board operations:

• Support the intake, triage and backlog of use case requests that are enterprise value for review by the Enterprise Information Governance Board

• Support the development of enterprise-wide information and data policies, procedures, and operating practices for case review by the Enterprise Information Governance Board

• Develop overall recommendations for governance use cases to create business value by working with subject matter experts, business leaders, technical stakeholders and IAG leadership

• Present enterprise use cases to Enterprise Information Governance Board and respond to Q&A from senior executives

• Act with a sense of urgency to anticipate and manage the materials, data and presentation needs for upcoming executive meetings and events

• Support the implementation planning and execution of Enterprise Information Governance Board decisions across the enterprise

Basic Qualifications:

To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:

• Level 2 - Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and at least 3 years of related experience or 1 years with a master’s degree

• Level 3 - Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and at least 6 years of related experience or 4 years with a master’s degree

• Strong understanding and proven experience of information and data governance strategy, frameworks, operating models, and concepts

• Strong understanding of Enterprise Information Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management technology landscape, processes, and design principles

• Demonstrated experience in the development of enterprise data standards and data policies

• Ability to be able to manage changing priorities and priorities from multiple stakeholders

• Ability to influence at all organizational levels

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Experience making and delivering executive presentations

• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups of stakeholders

• Strong business acumen to make sound judgments on sensitive topics with broad implications

• Ability to obtain a DOD Secret clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates with some of these desired skills will be given preferential consideration:

• Experience in data mapping, data flow (lineage and transformation logic) documentation, data dictionary, and other data governance and master data management documentation.

• Experience implementing data governance, data catalogs and data catalog platforms, and/or data privacy

• Experience in meta-data management (data classifications, data tagging, glossary, and data lineage) 

• Strong understanding of data, data analytics, and data systems

• Understanding of Northrop Grumman policies, processes, and data sources

• Experience with DoD & international customers and/or partners

• Experience with Agile development and methodologies

• Management consulting or client facing delivery experience

This position reports to Unknown City, VA, USA, however, you are able to work from any of the additional 4 locations listed above.

Salary Range: $66,600 USD - $115,700 USD

Salary Range 2: $82,000 USD - $142,400 USD

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

The health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. The company encourages employees to remain up-to-date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. U.S. Northrop Grumman employees may be required, in the future, to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation, pursuant to future court decisions and/or government action on the currently stayed federal contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042 https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/contractors/.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.