Data Management Specialist

Position: Data Management Specialist

Location: Huntsville, AL

Clearance: Active Clearance Required

*** Sign-on bonus of $5,000 for this position ***

Job Description:

The Data Management Specialist (DMS) is responsible for supporting a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) directorate to effectively manage their data and data sources. The DMS will work extensively with stakeholders to identify single sources of truth (authoritative data sources), establish relationships between other data sources, and integrate them into an organizational data model. You may also develop data governance and policy and educate stakeholders to improve data literacy across the directorate. Overall, the DMS will assist the directorate in creating an environment that efficiently and effectively supports appropriate data access and robust reporting an analysis, which includes promoting high standards for data quality, identifying data gaps, and recommending best practices and solutions. You will collaborate with Government customers, data owners, data stewards, developers, data scientists and other data services personnel to accomplish the overall goal of effective data management, analytics, and reporting. The DMS will promote a supportive environment and a cohesive team who freely shares information and documentation to execute outstanding customer support.

Responsibilities:

Support the customer in creating and executing an overarching data management strategy

Effectively and efficiently execute data management activities, such as:

Data quality assessment

Data process improvement

Data model development

Policy and governance development

Data integration strategy development

Access control

Advise MDA customers as their resident data management and data quality expert and actively improve data literacy

Escalate issues to scrum master, primary government customer, and/or NMR leadership as appropriate

Requirements:

Familiarity with common data capabilities and platforms such as SQL Server, SQL Analysis Services, Oracle, Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, etc.

Ability to assess the quality of data and create processes to address quality issues

Experience executing efforts utilizing an Agile methodology and tools (i.e. Gitlab, JIRA, etc.)

Experience with data governance, data integration and data access

Proficient in the use of MS Office Suite Tools

Must have a high level of interpersonal skills and the ability to successfully collaborate with team members and customers

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) certification through DAMA is required within 6 months of hire date

Familiarity with data-centric programming languages such as SQL, PHP, and R is preferable

Familiarity with AI/ML capabilities preferable

NMR Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer (E0E) M/F/D/V