[Remote] Data Operations Specialist (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Geneva Foundation is seeking a Data Operations Specialist to support the integrity and accessibility of organizational data. This role involves coordinating with data owners, maintaining data pipelines, ensuring data quality, and enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, validate, and reconcile data across enterprise systems and platforms
- Perform routine data audits, reconciliation, and integrity checks to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance
- Develop and enforce data standards, naming conventions, and metadata practices in alignment with organizational policies
- Support data documentation, version control, and audit readiness
- Monitor and support data pipelines, integrations, and automated processes between platforms
- Troubleshoot data issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and recommend corrective actions to minimize recurring errors
- Document data processes, workflows, and system configuration to support scalability and cross-team knowledge transfer
- Partner with operational teams to identify and improve inefficient or manual data workflows
- Collaborate with Office of Strategy and Impact (OSI) to prepare clean, validated datasets for dashboards, KPIs, and operational reporting
- Assist with the development of data models, ETL processes, and reporting logic required for organizational insights
- Support data requests from internal teams, ensuring proper access, security, and compliance
- Ensure data handling aligns with federal, sponsor, and internal compliance requirements (e.g., NIST 800-171, HIPAA, CUI, DoD data governance)
- Partner with cybersecurity and information governance colleagues to maintain secure data environments and role-based access controls
- Work collaboratively across IGS, departmental, and analytics teams to maintain accurate, validated data and ensure that operational and technical requirements are effectively aligned and continue to provide value back to the end user
- Provide user support and training on data tools, dashboards, and system best practices
- Participate in organizational data governance working groups or committees as needed
- Serve as a liaison between technical and non‑technical users to translate data issues and solutions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or related field; or equivalent experience
- 0-2 years of experience in data operations, data management, systems administration, or analytics support
- Proficiency with data tools such as Excel (advanced), SQL, or equivalent
- Experience working with enterprise systems
- Strong understanding of data structures, relational databases, and ETL concepts
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Experience in federal research, government contracting, grants management, or healthcare data environments
- Familiarity with data governance frameworks and concepts (e.g., lineage, stewardship, quality rules)
- Exposure to cloud data environments (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, etc.)
- Basic scripting experience (Python, R, PowerShell, etc.)
- Data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)
- Understanding of compliance frameworks: HIPAA, CUI, FISMA, NIST standards
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