Lead enterprise data, analytics, governance, and AI-enabled capability delivery across a complex federal technology environment.
Develop and implement data governance policies, standards, operating procedures, approval workflows, and accountability models.
Establish and maintain data portfolio management practices, including prioritization, project intake, resource planning, risk tracking, milestone reporting, and performance measurement.
Lead the design and implementation of scalable data architecture, including data pipelines, data lakes, data warehouses, data marts, data catalogs, metadata repositories, and data lineage capabilities.
Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, data dictionaries, scorecards, issue management workflows, and continuous monitoring processes.
Guide development of analytics products, dashboards, reports, and visualization tools that provide operational insight and support executive decision-making.
Support advanced analytics capabilities, including statistical analysis, predictive modeling, trend analysis, root cause analysis, and AI-enabled analytics.
Ensure data sharing, API integration, and data access models are secure, governed, auditable, and aligned with privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements.
Partner with cybersecurity, engineering, product, and program management teams to align data platforms, applications, integrations, and analytics capabilities with enterprise standards.
Establish reusable templates, frameworks, data models, ETL/ELT patterns, documentation repositories, and project management toolkits for data initiatives.
Support training, documentation, and knowledge transfer to improve user adoption and long-term sustainment of data tools, dashboards, and data management practices.
Monitor data quality, data usage, access patterns, and analytics adoption to identify risks, improvement opportunities, and operational blind spots.
What You Must Have
U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance.
Bachelor's Degree
10+ years of experience leading enterprise data, analytics, data governance, data engineering, data architecture, or AI-enabled analytics initiatives.
One active data, cloud, analytics, AI/ML, or data governance certification, such as CDMP, DAMA, AWS/Azure/GCP data certification, Microsoft Power BI certification, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent
What we would like you to have:
8+ years of experience designing, implementing, or managing enterprise data platforms, data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, data catalogs, or metadata management capabilities.
5+ years of experience establishing data governance policies, standards, stewardship models, data quality frameworks, data dictionaries, lineage practices, or data management operating models.
5+ years of experience delivering analytics products, dashboards, reporting capabilities, data visualizations, or executive decision-support tools.
5+ years of experience working in federal, public sector, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated environments with formal privacy, security, or compliance requirements.
3+ years of experience supporting AI-enabled analytics, predictive modeling, machine learning workflows, anomaly detection, or advanced analytics use cases.
3+ years of experience with data integration methods, including APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, data orchestration, batch processing, real-time ingestion, or change data capture.
3+ years of experience using data visualization, analytics, or business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, QuickSight, Looker, Palantir Foundry, or similar platforms.
3+ years of experience with cloud data servic
Benefits
Health insuranceRemote work options
Additional Information
This role is contingent upon a contract award.
ICF is seeking an experienced Data Analytics Manager to lead enterprise data, analytics, governance, and AI-enabled capabilities for a complex federal technology services program. This role will support the design, implementation, and sustainment of data policy, standards, governance processes, portfolio management practices, data architecture, data quality controls, analytics products, dashboards, and secure data access models.
The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience leading enterprise data initiatives in regulated environments, with strong technical credibility across data governance, data architecture, data engineering, analytics, data quality, metadata management, and responsible AI-enabled analytics. This role requires the ability to translate business, operational, and mission needs into governed, secure, and usable data capabilities that support decision-making, performance management, and continuous improvement.
Job Location: This position is remote within the United States.
Please note that ICF monitors employee work locations, restricts access from foreign locations and IP addresses, and prohibits the use of personal VPN connections.
Icf · Reston, VA