Data Governance Lead

What you'll do

• Lead governance activities across metadata, lineage, classification, stewardship, data quality, and cost accountability.
• Translate enterprise policies into actionable requirements for data products, pipelines, and platform services.
• Guide working groups and stakeholders through data-owner decisions and technical implementation sessions.
• Establish standards for business glossaries, data dictionaries, naming conventions, and technical metadata.
• Define data lineage standards across sources, transformations, reports, and downstream data products.
• Develop requirements for data classification, sensitivity handling, retention, and disposal.
• Create data quality rules, thresholds, and issue management workflows to ensure high-quality data.
• Manage governance controls for data sharing, access policies, and cost accountability in AWS GovCloud environments.

What we're looking for

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination.
• 5+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or information management.
• Experience leading enterprise data governance frameworks including policies, standards, procedures, and accountability models.
• Experience establishing metadata standards, business glossaries, data lineage, and quality standards.
• Ability to facilitate governance working groups and stakeholder decision sessions.
• Experience with Databricks, AWS GovCloud, or related cloud certifications (preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree.