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Remote Data Governance Specialist jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms, distributed enterprise teams, and companies in Vergys, MANTECH, and Rackner all hiring for this role. Sectors including finance, healthcare, and technology are driving the bulk of remote openings as organizations scale their data management programs. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Senior Data Governance Specialist | Active Secret
Location: Remote
Clearance: Active Secret required
Shape How Enterprise Data Is Governed and Used
Rackner is seeking a Senior Data Governance Specialist to help build and operationalize the governance model behind a modern federal data environment.
You'll connect governance strategy with implementation; shaping how data is classified, stewarded, accessed, measured, protected, and managed across the organization. Working alongside Government stakeholders and technical teams, you'll help turn governance standards into practices people can actually use across Microsoft Fabric, Purview, Entra ID, and related data environments.
This is an opportunity to influence an evolving governance program rather than simply maintain an established one, with meaningful ownership across stewardship, metadata, data quality, classification, access governance, and governance maturity.
What You'll Do
- Shape and mature enterprise data governance standards, policies, workflows, and operating practices.
- Establish data standards, naming conventions, and quality thresholds across Microsoft Fabric and Ed-Fi environments.
- Build and strengthen a distributed stewardship model, including steward identification, protocols, training, regional coordination, and communities of practice.
- Turn governance strategy into operating processes for data-quality reviews, access requests, governance forums, and issue resolution.
- Develop classification, marking, retention, and lifecycle practices aligned with federal requirements.
- Help define Master Data Management strategy and enterprise data-management standards.
- Configure and mature Microsoft Purview capabilities, including sensitivity labels, data domains, access policies, and DLP controls.
- Design and validate data-access controls and RBAC aligned with the governance framework and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Partner with Government stakeholders to create governance artifacts, measure adoption, and report progress against governance maturity objectives.
What Will Help You Succeed
We're looking for someone who has helped design, implement, or materially improve enterprise data governance, not simply worked within an existing governance process.
Relevant background may include:
- Enterprise data-governance frameworks or operating models
- Data stewardship programs, councils, or communities of practice
- Metadata management, business glossaries, or enterprise data catalogs
- Data classification and sensitivity-labeling frameworks
- Data-quality standards, thresholds, metrics, or remediation processes
- Access governance, RBAC, identity-integrated controls, or approval workflows
- Microsoft Purview or comparable enterprise governance/catalog platforms
- Federated governance models
- Federal, DoD, or similarly regulated data environments
We care about what you personally owned, implemented, and improved; including the decisions you made, how governance was adopted, and what changed as a result.
Preferred Qualifications
- CDMP, DGSP, or comparable data-management certification
- Hands-on work with Microsoft Purview governance capabilities
- Familiarity with the DoD Data Strategy, VAULTIS goals, or comparable federal data-management frameworks
- Background establishing or operating federated governance models
- Demonstrated work developing data-classification or access-governance frameworks
Why Rackner
At Rackner, you'll have the opportunity to help establish governance at the point where enterprise data strategy meets technical implementation.
Your work will go beyond producing policies and documentation. You'll help create the stewardship structures, standards, controls, and operating practices that allow teams to use data more consistently and responsibly across a modernizing environment.
You'll also work across governance and technology—giving you exposure to Microsoft Purview, Fabric, Entra ID, data quality, metadata, classification, access governance, and enterprise stewardship while supporting mission-critical public-sector work.
About Rackner
Rackner is a software consultancy focused on building mission-critical systems for the U.S. government. Our teams work across cloud platforms, DevSecOps, AI/ML, data modernization, distributed systems, and modern software engineering initiatives supporting federal agencies and national-security missions.
Our technical teams collaborate closely with program leaders and mission stakeholders to design, deliver, and improve systems that address complex operational challenges.
Benefits & Perks
At Rackner, we invest in the growth and development of our people through:
- Company-supported certifications aligned with current and future program work
- Clear advancement paths and future leadership opportunities
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Home-office equipment and remote-work support
- Fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Weekly pay and team events
Equal Opportunity
Rackner is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.
Senior Data Governance Specialist | Active Secret
Location: Remote
Clearance: Active Secret required
Shape How Enterprise Data Is Governed and Used
Rackner is seeking a Senior Data Governance Specialist to help build and operationalize the governance model behind a modern federal data environment.
You'll connect governance strategy with implementation; shaping how data is classified, stewarded, accessed, measured, protected, and managed across the organization. Working alongside Government stakeholders and technical teams, you'll help turn governance standards into practices people can actually use across Microsoft Fabric, Purview, Entra ID, and related data environments.
This is an opportunity to influence an evolving governance program rather than simply maintain an established one, with meaningful ownership across stewardship, metadata, data quality, classification, access governance, and governance maturity.
What You'll Do
- Shape and mature enterprise data governance standards, policies, workflows, and operating practices.
- Establish data standards, naming conventions, and quality thresholds across Microsoft Fabric and Ed-Fi environments.
- Build and strengthen a distributed stewardship model, including steward identification, protocols, training, regional coordination, and communities of practice.
- Turn governance strategy into operating processes for data-quality reviews, access requests, governance forums, and issue resolution.
- Develop classification, marking, retention, and lifecycle practices aligned with federal requirements.
- Help define Master Data Management strategy and enterprise data-management standards.
- Configure and mature Microsoft Purview capabilities, including sensitivity labels, data domains, access policies, and DLP controls.
- Design and validate data-access controls and RBAC aligned with the governance framework and Microsoft Entra ID.
- Partner with Government stakeholders to create governance artifacts, measure adoption, and report progress against governance maturity objectives.
What Will Help You Succeed
We're looking for someone who has helped design, implement, or materially improve enterprise data governance, not simply worked within an existing governance process.
Relevant background may include:
- Enterprise data-governance frameworks or operating models
- Data stewardship programs, councils, or communities of practice
- Metadata management, business glossaries, or enterprise data catalogs
- Data classification and sensitivity-labeling frameworks
- Data-quality standards, thresholds, metrics, or remediation processes
- Access governance, RBAC, identity-integrated controls, or approval workflows
- Microsoft Purview or comparable enterprise governance/catalog platforms
- Federated governance models
- Federal, DoD, or similarly regulated data environments
We care about what you personally owned, implemented, and improved; including the decisions you made, how governance was adopted, and what changed as a result.
Preferred Qualifications
- CDMP, DGSP, or comparable data-management certification
- Hands-on work with Microsoft Purview governance capabilities
- Familiarity with the DoD Data Strategy, VAULTIS goals, or comparable federal data-management frameworks
- Background establishing or operating federated governance models
- Demonstrated work developing data-classification or access-governance frameworks
Why Rackner
At Rackner, you'll have the opportunity to help establish governance at the point where enterprise data strategy meets technical implementation.
Your work will go beyond producing policies and documentation. You'll help create the stewardship structures, standards, controls, and operating practices that allow teams to use data more consistently and responsibly across a modernizing environment.
You'll also work across governance and technology—giving you exposure to Microsoft Purview, Fabric, Entra ID, data quality, metadata, classification, access governance, and enterprise stewardship while supporting mission-critical public-sector work.
About Rackner
Rackner is a software consultancy focused on building mission-critical systems for the U.S. government. Our teams work across cloud platforms, DevSecOps, AI/ML, data modernization, distributed systems, and modern software engineering initiatives supporting federal agencies and national-security missions.
Our technical teams collaborate closely with program leaders and mission stakeholders to design, deliver, and improve systems that address complex operational challenges.
Benefits & Perks
At Rackner, we invest in the growth and development of our people through:
- Company-supported certifications aligned with current and future program work
- Clear advancement paths and future leadership opportunities
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Home-office equipment and remote-work support
- Fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Weekly pay and team events
Equal Opportunity
Rackner is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Retail
- Insurance
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote data governance specialist jobs.
- Experience implementing or managing a data governance framework such as DAMA-DMBOK or DCAM
- Hands-on proficiency with data catalog or metadata management tools such as Collibra, Alation, or Informatica
- Knowledge of data quality principles, including profiling, cleansing, and lineage documentation
- Familiarity with regulatory compliance requirements such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, or SOX as they relate to data
- Ability to define and enforce data policies, data dictionaries, and data standards across business units
- Bachelor's degree in information management, computer science, business, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Data Governance Specialist Job Search
Document your governance work asynchronously
Remote data governance specialists live and die by written documentation. Build a portfolio of data policies, business glossaries, or metadata standards you have authored so hiring managers can evaluate your work without an in-person whiteboard session.
Target remote-first firms with distributed data teams
Companies with fully distributed engineering and analytics teams are the most reliable remote employers for governance roles. Look for organizations where the data team is explicitly listed as remote or where leadership and individual contributors are spread across multiple time zones.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote data governance specialist openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience and apply directly without sorting through mixed listings. Remote roles with strong specs fill fast, so applying early matters.
Prepare for async-first remote interviews
Many remote employers use written take-home assessments or recorded video screens before a live call. Practice explaining how you have handled stakeholder alignment, data stewardship escalations, or policy exceptions in writing, since remote governance roles require exactly that communication style on the job.
Remote Data Governance Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote data governance specialist job?
Target companies with distributed data teams, where governance work happens asynchronously across time zones and written documentation carries real weight. Remote employers screen for self-direction, the ability to communicate data policies clearly in writing, and hands-on experience with tools like Collibra, Alation, or Informatica. Showing a portfolio of data dictionaries, policy frameworks, or governance audits you have built gives you a concrete edge over candidates who only describe their experience.
Which companies hire remote data governance specialists?
Companies hiring remote data governance specialists right now include Vergys, MANTECH, and Rackner, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Remote-first firms and large distributed enterprises in financial services, healthcare, and technology tend to hire data governance specialists at the highest volume.
Can you get a remote data governance specialist job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level data governance roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one without in-person coaching. Your best paths in are earning a CDMP or similar governance certification, contributing to an open-source data quality project, or building sample data dictionaries and metadata frameworks you can share. Companies piloting governance programs, especially mid-size tech firms, are more likely to hire motivated entry-level candidates than large enterprises running mature programs.
Do you need a degree for remote data governance specialist jobs?
Not always. While many job postings list a bachelor's degree in information management, computer science, or a related field, remote employers often weigh demonstrated skills more heavily than credentials alone. Certifications like the CDMP, a portfolio of governance artifacts, and proven experience with metadata management or data quality tools can offset a non-traditional educational background, particularly at companies that are building governance programs from scratch.
Which industries hire the most remote data governance specialists?
Most remote data governance specialist openings sit in Technology & Software, Healthcare & Medical Services, and Retail, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These sectors rely on distributed teams managing sensitive, regulated, or high-volume data, which makes a dedicated remote governance specialist a practical hire rather than a nice-to-have.
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