Red Arch Solutions
Intelligence systems and software engineering solutions
Metadata Governance Engineer
+ 10% 401(k) match + Profit sharing + Annual bonus compensation + Spot bonuses + Referral bonuses
About the job
- A bachelor's degree in Information Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Library Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of experience supporting enterprise data governance, metadata management, or data stewardship programs.
- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise data catalogs and metadata repositories.
- Experience developing metadata standards, taxonomies, and governance procedures.
- Knowledge of Intelligence Community data management policies and governance frameworks, including ICD 504 and IC Data Strategy requirements.
- Experience facilitating stakeholder engagement across technical and business organizations.
- Experience with Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Apache Atlas, or similar data catalog platforms.
- Experience supporting data onboarding and metadata automation initiatives.
- Familiarity with data architecture, data integration, and cloud environments.
- Experience supporting federal, defense, or intelligence community organizations.
- Lead enterprise metadata management and data catalog initiatives.
- Establish and maintain metadata standards, taxonomies, naming conventions, and classification guidelines.
- Oversee cataloging of enterprise data assets to improve discoverability and reuse.
- Ensure metadata completeness, accuracy, and consistency across data domains.
- Manage metadata lifecycle processes and governance workflows.
- Develop and refine metadata governance policies, processes, and standard operating procedures.
- Support organizational data governance efforts through participation in governance boards, councils, and working groups.
- Ensure compliance with Intelligence Community data policies, information-sharing requirements, and organizational governance standards.
- Assess governance maturity and recommend process improvements.
- Collaborate with data stewards, data owners, system owners, data scientists, and engineering teams.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings to identify metadata requirements and governance priorities.
- Provide subject matter expertise on metadata standards, cataloging practices, and data classification.
- Support training and adoption activities related to metadata and catalog management.
- Gather and document requirements for metadata management tools and enterprise catalog capabilities.
- Collaborate with development teams to implement metadata automation and workflow enhancements.
- Support integration of metadata management capabilities across enterprise systems.
- Validate and test metadata solutions to ensure requirements are met.
- Develop metrics for monitoring metadata quality and catalog usage.
- Support data quality initiatives through metadata enrichment and stewardship practices.
- Improve enterprise search, discovery, and data asset transparency.
- Establish reporting mechanisms for metadata governance performance.
- Certified Data Management Professional certification or equivalent.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
About the company
Red Arch Solutions provides specialized intelligence and engineering services for the U.S. national security community. It offers state-of-the-art tactical and strategic intelligence, systems, and software engineering solutions to address unique challenges faced by the intelligence community. Its product approach combines highly skilled personnel with analytical and engineering capabilities to collect, analyze, create, and engineer solutions that support critical missions. The company differentiates itself through a strong people-first culture, emphasizing career mobility, work-life balance, and individualized career paths, aiming to retain highly trained professionals as its core asset. The goal is to deliver value-added, synergistic support to customers by leveraging deep expertise across the intelligence community while maintaining commitment to equal opportunity and affirmative action.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Columbia, South Carolina
Founded
2004
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 job boards show 21 open roles, signaling active contract demand.
- Roles pay $180,000 to $200,000, attracting scarce TS/SCI-cleared engineers.
- New 2026 contract awards suggest ongoing recompete wins and pipeline momentum.
What critics are saying
- Revenue depends on Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency budgets.
- A single lost SITE III task order can cut headcount quickly in Annapolis Junction.
- No public diversification into commercial markets creates existential concentration risk.
What makes Red Arch Solutions unique
- SITE III and OASIS+ position Red Arch inside DIA, NGA, and federal buying channels.
- Red Arch still markets data modernization, cybersecurity, and cloud for intelligence customers.
- Its 2004 founding and 51-200 employee scale support niche, cleared-delivery specialization.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
401(k) Company Match
Profit Sharing
Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Tuition Reimbursement
529 College Saving Plan
College Loan Pay Back Program
Employee Referral Bonus
Professional Development Budget