Company Profile
ReefPoint Group, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business founded by Naval Academy graduates in 2008 to continue serving others and ensure our nation’s Veterans and military servicemembers receive the finest healthcare and support services. We further this stewardship mission by applying proven, agile methodologies to modernize systems, strengthen governance, and enable data-driven transformation across Federal agencies.
Position Overview
The Business Analyst – Data Governance & Metadata Management supports the execution of enterprise data governance and metadata standardization initiatives within secure federal healthcare environments.
This role is responsible for conducting stakeholder engagement, capturing and normalizing metadata, and supporting governance workflows that enable the development of a centralized metadata repository and associated data products. The Business Analyst works closely with system owners, data stewards, and technical teams to ensure metadata accuracy, completeness, and alignment with enterprise standards.
This is a delivery-focused, analytical role that blends stakeholder facilitation, structured data capture, and documentation support to enable effective data governance implementation.
Behavioral Competencies
- Balances Stakeholders: Effectively engages system owners, data stewards, and technical teams to capture requirements and reconcile competing priorities.
- Client Focus: Understands client data governance needs and ensures outputs align with mission objectives and operational requirements.
- Collaboration: Works across functional teams including governance, engineering, and QA to ensure alignment and completeness of deliverables.
- Decision Quality: Applies structured analysis and validation methods to ensure accuracy and consistency of metadata and documentation.
- Drives Results: Maintains momentum on data collection, validation, and documentation efforts to meet program timelines.
- Resourcefulness: Adapts to evolving requirements, incomplete data, and complex stakeholder environments to deliver practical solutions.
Core Responsibilities:
Metadata Collection & Stakeholder Engagement
- Conduct interviews and working sessions with system owners, data stewards, and SMEs to elicit technical, business, and security metadata.
- Facilitate meetings and workshops to drive alignment on data definitions, lineage, and governance processes.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to support ongoing data governance activities.
Metadata Documentation & Validation
- Capture, normalize, and document metadata using standardized intake templates and governance frameworks.
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of metadata through validation cycles with system owners and stewards.
- Support development of data dictionaries, inventory artifacts, and metadata repositories.
Governance Process Support
- Support implementation of metadata governance workflows, including intake, review, approval, and publication processes.
- Maintain documentation related to governance processes, stewardship activities, and lifecycle management.
- Contribute to development of governance artifacts such as SOPs, playbooks, and compliance reporting.
Program Coordination & Reporting
- Maintain meeting agendas, stakeholder rosters, meeting minutes, and action tracking logs.
- Track risks, issues, and dependencies and report status to project leadership.
- Prepare inputs for monthly and quarterly program reporting and maintain document control.
Analysis & Continuous Improvement
- Conduct analysis to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities in metadata and governance processes.
- Support usability testing and stakeholder feedback collection to improve data access and adoption.
- Stay current on data governance best practices, metadata standards, and federal data management trends.
Qualifications and Experience
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field required
Experience:
- Minimum of 2–5 years of experience in business analysis, data governance, or consulting support roles
- Experience supporting data, analytics, or digital transformation initiatives
- Experience working with stakeholders to gather requirements and document processes
Demonstrated Skills:
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills
- Experience facilitating stakeholder meetings and workshops
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a dynamic environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
Additional Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Health Agency (DHA), or federal healthcare environments
- Familiarity with metadata management concepts, data governance frameworks, and data catalog tools
- Experience supporting Agile or hybrid delivery environments
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
This position requires the employee to be a US Citizen and requires the ability to obtain a security clearance.
Work Environment:
Work will be done in an office setting/environment and will need to constantly operate a computer and other office equipment. The person in this role will need to have the ability to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time and occasionally will need to move about inside an office environment. This position frequently communicates with other employees and external stakeholders. The person needs to have the ability to accurately exchange information in these settings