Data Governance Engineer

You will be responsible for scaling, automation, and optimization of HBX data governance policies and processes across the entire data lifecycle.

This role is a key contributor to delivering and successfully executing the Data Governance Roadmap. You will be actively involved in creating the company's data quality foundations by developing and implementing technical solutions related to:

• Data Governance & Management policies as code
• Automatic Data Observability and Quality metrics implementation
• Effective Metadata Management & Data Catalogue
• Automation of Data Policies and Procedures
• Automation of Data Security processes and controls

Responsibilities :

Reporting to the Head of Data Governance Office, this role will be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing automatic Data Governance policies and procedures, detecting bad practices, and preventing data quality issues across different data layers and phases of the data lifecycle.
• Designing and implementing automatic Data Management policies, procedures, and controls (policy as code) to prevent data misuse.
• Designing and implementing automatic Data Quality controls, validation, metrics, and alerts.
• Collaborating with Data Governance Enterprise Architect to design data extraction, transformation, and loading processes using SQL, Python, and AWS big data technologies.
• Building and deploying Data Governance tools for Data Analysts and Data Scientists to support product innovation.

Skills

Education: Degree in Computer & Information Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, BI & Data Analytics, Big Data.

Experience: Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with relational databases, data security management, root cause analysis, data systems automation, and working with structured and unstructured data.

Technical Skills: Managing cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred), programming in SQL and Python, ETL tools like Airflow, data transformation tools like dbt, governance platforms, visualization tools like Tableau, version control systems, and documentation tools.

Soft Skills: Excellent communication, project management (Agile, Scrum, Kanban), bilingual in English & Spanish, strategic thinking, results-driven, data literacy, visualization, and innovation skills.

Day-to-day activities include governing the HBX Data Platform Stack, designing automated data governance policies and controls, ensuring data security and compliance, and managing the full data lifecycle in accordance with data retention policies.