Senior Data Governance Specialist

We are seeking a technically skilled and detail-oriented Senior Data Governance Specialist to join our Data Governance and Management team. This role is responsible for defining enforcing and operationalizing data governance policies; strengthening access controls and security; overseeing metadata standards in partnership with the metadata management function; and ensuring traceability and compliance across systems and domains. The Senior Data Governance Specialist will work closely with crossfunctional teams to ensure data is governed responsibly securely and in alignment with regulatory and audit requirements.

This is a key position for supporting organizationwide data initiatives ensuring that business decisions are powered by reliable accurate and trusted data as we continue to build out our data governance and management function within the Product organization at Assent. The Senior Data Governance Specialist is a hands-on role that collaborates closely with partners across the engineering security legal/compliance and product organizations and serves to solve core governance challenges in our data ecosystem.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities 

• Own the development enforcement and lifecycle of data governance policies (access classification retention exceptions) implemented as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and integrated into CI/CD.
• Implement and audit RBAC/ABAC; coordinate periodic access reviews segregationofduties controls and privileged access governance aligned with corporate security.
• Author and maintain data contracts (YAML/dbt) to enforce schema consistency data ownership and SLAs.
• Maintain a centralized policy register and SOPs for enforcement exceptions approvals escalations and reviews; provide enablement and training.
• Partner with the Metadata Management function to define standards for metadata capture ownership glossary and stewardship; align policies with catalog workflows without owning daytoday operations.
• Define requirements and drive coverage for endtoend data lineage with Engineering and Metadata Management to support audit impact analysis and change management.
• Establish and report governance KPIs (e.g. policy compliance access review completion exception closure time) and publish dashboards for leadership.
• Evaluate and integrate governance tooling with our modern stack (e.g. Snowflake BigQuery dbt) and leverage automation/GenAI for documentation and exception handling.
• Provide recommendations to improve governance practices; ensure alignment with internal policies privacy standards (e.g. GDPR HIPAA PII) and audit requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and leadership to other team members.

Qualifications :

We strongly value your talent energy and passion. It will also be valuable to Assent if you have the following qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in data governance data management security or a similar role.
• A degree in Computer Science Information Systems Data Science or a related field is typically required.
• Hands-on experience with policyascode and Open Policy Agent (OPA) including authoring and testing policies (e.g. Rego) and integrating them into CI/CD (required).
• Experience administering or implementing data governance/catalog tools such as Atlan or Collibra (required). Experience with Purview or Alation is an asset.
• Deep understanding of metadata and lineage concepts access control models (RBAC/ABAC) and regulatory considerations (e.g. PII handling GDPR HIPAA PCIDSS).
• Proficiency in SQL Git Hub Python SQL Server and experience with BI tools such as Tableau Power BI or Sigma.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake BigQuery) and data transformation tools (e.g. dbt).
• Exposure to GenAI tools and promptbased automation for governance documentation and workflows.
• Ability to build and interpret governance dashboards and communicate findings to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong problemsolving skills attention to detail and stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with agile work environments and scrum ceremonies.
• Experience working with crossfunctional teams to resolve governance issues and align on standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Additional Information :

Life at Assent

Wellness: We believe that you and your familys well being is important. As a result we offer vacation time that increases with tenure comprehensive benefits packages (details vary by country) life leave days and more.

Financial Benefits: Its not all about the money well its a little about the money. We understand that financial health is important and we offer a competitive base salary a corporate bonus program retirement savings options and more.

Life at Assent: There is purpose beyond your work. We provide our team members with flexible work options volunteer days and opportunities to get involved in corporate giving initiatives.

Lifelong Learning: At Assent curiosity is not only valued but encouraged. You will receive professional development days that are available to you the day you start.

At Assent we are committed to growing and sustaining an environment where our team members feel included valued and heard. Our diversity and equal opportunity practices are guided and championed by our Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

Our commitment to diversity equity and inclusion includes recruiting and retaining team members from diverse backgrounds and experiences and fostering a culture of belonging where all team members are included treated with dignity and respect promoted on their merits and placed in positions to contribute to business success.

If you require assistance or accommodation throughout any part of the interview and selection process please contact and we will be happy to help.  

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time