Lead Data Governance Engineer - Local to Bay Area, CA Only

Position Overview

Work Location: Bay Area, California (candidates must be local to the Bay Area and available to work on-site as required)

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to define, implement, and promote enterprise data governance policies, standards, and best practices.
• Support metadata management, business glossary development, data lineage, data cataloging, and data classification activities across enterprise data domains.
• Support the implementation and adoption of enterprise data governance platforms such as Ataccama, Collibra, or similar tools.
• Facilitate data quality assessments, issue identification, root cause analysis, and remediation planning for critical data assets.
• Support governance processes for master data, reference data, metadata, and critical data elements.
• Develop governance documentation, standards, operating procedures, and data stewardship guidance.
• Support governance councils, working sessions, stakeholder communications, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Privacy, Security, and Engineering teams to improve data quality, governance, and compliance.
• Assist with regulatory compliance, audit readiness, data retention, privacy, and risk management initiatives.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure data pipelines, integrations, and reporting solutions align with governance standards and enterprise policies.

Qualifications

• Required:
• 8+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Quality, or Enterprise Data Management.
• Experience implementing enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and stewardship processes.
• Experience working with metadata management and data catalog tools such as Ataccama, Collibra, Alation, or comparable platforms.
• Understanding of data quality, metadata, lineage, business glossary, master data management, and reference data concepts.
• Experience collaborating with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Privacy, Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams.
• Working knowledge of SQL and data analysis techniques to support data quality and governance activities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to bridge business and technical teams.
• Must be local to the Bay Area, California, and available to work on-site as required.
• PREFERRED:
• Experience supporting enterprise governance initiatives within utilities or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of DAMA DMBOK, DCAM, or other data governance frameworks.
• Experience with regulatory compliance, privacy, and audit initiatives.
• CDMP or other data governance certifications.

Tools and Technologies

• Governance Platforms: Collibra, Alation
• Data Quality: Ataccama DQ, Informatica DQ, Great Expectations
• Metadata & Lineage: Business Glossary, Data Catalog, Data Lineage
• Cloud/Data Platforms: Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
• Languages: SQL, Python (for analysis and profiling)
• Reporting: Power BI, Tableau (preferred)