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JOB SUMMARY:
Responsible for leading and directing the design implementation and maintenance of scalable secure and policycompliant data governance frameworks across the enterprise. Drive governance initiatives from inception to deployment ensuring highquality metadata management data lineage classification and access control. Collaborate closely with business stakeholders engineering teams architecture legal and product owners to deliver governance solutions that underpin enterprise data reliability security and compliance. Troubleshoot and optimize governance processes within a mature data ecosystem while driving continuous improvements. Execute configuration integration and lifecycle management of data governance platforms and tools partnering with Infrastructure Security and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leads the design and implementation of ongoing data governance practices across enterprise data platforms ensuring the effective delivery of governance frameworks metadata strategies data quality standards and compliance policies across both internal and external teams.
- Provides technical leadership and mentorship to data architects engineers data stewards and external partners to enable the deployment of efficient secure and sustainable data governance solutions aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Leads the prioritization planning design and execution of data governancerelated enhancements including metadata management data catalog integrations lineage tracking and access control policies. Partners with business and technical stakeholders to ensure governance efforts align with enterprise data strategy.
- Responsible for the resolution of governancerelated issues including data quality anomalies lineage gaps and metadata inconsistencies. Drives root cause analysis and implements longterm remediation strategies to maintain data integrity and trust.
- Monitors and supports the operation of governance tools and platforms to ensure they meet service level agreements and performance expectations. Continuously evaluates governance processes to optimize effectiveness ensure audit readiness and support evolving business needs.
- Understands and actively participates in Environmental Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy procedures training and team member involvement activities.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION:
Bachelors degree Technical degree or highly relevant equivalent experience is required.
EXPERIENCE:
- 9 years of experience in data engineering data architecture or data governance.
- 2 years of designing and implementing technical data governance solutions at scale.
- Proficient in SQL and Python with handson experience building scalable data pipelines and frameworks using tools such as Apache Airflow dbt or Prefect.
- Demonstrated expertise in data governance tools such as Collibra Alation Informatica Apache Atlas or Amundsen including integration into data platforms and orchestration layers.
- Deep understanding of metadata management data lineage tracking data cataloging and data classification frameworks.
- Proven experience implementing data privacy and compliance policies such as GDPR CCPA HIPAA and knowledge of data security best practices (e.g. encryption tokenization row/columnlevel access controls).
- Strong familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake Databricks BigQuery Redshift or Azure Synapse and how to implement governance controls in those environments.
- Experience in working with IAM and RBAC/ABAC frameworks to enforce data access policies across diverse user roles.
- Demonstrated success leading crossfunctional data initiatives across engineering legal security analytics and business units.
- Strong documentation communication and stakeholder management skills capable of translating complex technical governance concepts for nontechnical audiences.
- Experience working with scheduling automation file transfer monitoring alerting notification and logging tools like Azure Data Factories Airflow NiFi RunDeck etc.
- Experience working in Linux environment.
- Experience with source control management such as Git and/or SVN.
- Strong knowledge of systems development and project management Agile methodologies/processes.
- Strong problem solving skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and accurately.
- Experience interacting with Kafka and API/Service programming and transactional databases.
- Participate in an oncall rotation and available to work offhours holidays and weekends.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to make effective decisions while working through complex system issues.
- Must be able to utilize and effectively communicate functional and technical components of an initiative to applicable parties both verbally and through documentation.
- Coordinate the necessary operations documentation and standards required for compliance and identified best practices.
- Willingness to learn new technologies tools and approaches to problemsolving.
- Act as SME on regulatory compliance and data ethics in product development and data operations.
- Serve as technical advisor to executive leadership on data governance strategy and investment;
- or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Your talent skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.
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