Data Governance Engineer

• Data Governance Engineer
• Location: New York, NY or San Francisco, CA
• Pay: $110-120/hr

• Local Candidates Only; No Relocation
• US Citizens or GC Holders Only; No Visa Sponsorship

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical rollout, configuration, and maintenance of modern data governance platform
• Translate data governance frameworks and compliance rules into automated technical workflows, data quality checks, and monitoring systems
• Build and maintain automated data lineage pipelines and metadata catalogs across various financial datasets
• Implement data access controls, masking rules, and security tagging to ensure compliance with financial regulations
• Partner with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to embed data governance seamlessly into the existing modern data stack

Qualifications:

• Strong background in data engineering, data infrastructure, or a closely related DevOps/DataOps role
• Hands-on experience with the technical rollout and administration of Atlan or similar enterprise data governance/catalog platforms (e.g., Alation, Collibra)
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience working with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery)
• Ability to write clean code (Python, Bash, etc.) to integrate governance tools via APIs and automate metadata ingestion