Data Governance Engineer

You will be responsible for scaling, automating, and optimizing HBX data governance policies and processes across the entire data lifecycle.

This role is a key contributor to delivering and 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 and efficient 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 various data layers and lifecycle phases.
• 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.

Skills

• Education in Computer & Information Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields; Master’s degree in BI & Data Analytics, Big Data preferred.
• Advanced Python skills, experience with databases, enterprise applications, and ML apps.
• Strong SQL knowledge, experience with relational databases, and data security management.
• Experience with data systems automation, root cause analysis, and working with structured and unstructured datasets.

Technical Skills

• Cloud Data Warehouse Platforms: Snowflake or similar
• Programming: SQL, Python, RestAPI
• ETL tools: Airflow, Snowpipe, or similar
• Data Transformation: dbt or similar
• Governance platforms: Collate, Open Metadata, Collibra, Infosphere, Montecarlo, Informatica
• Visualization: Tableau or similar
• Version control: Bitbucket, Gitlab, Github
• Documentation: Atlassian Confluence or similar

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and project management skills (Agile, Scrum, Kanban)
• Proficiency in English and Spanish
• Strategic thinking, results-driven, data literacy, and visualization skills

Day-to-day activities

• Governance and management of HBX Data Platform Stack, including security, user management, roles, permissions, and policy implementation.
• Design and implement automated data governance policies, detective controls, and alerts.
• Ensure data platform connectivity and governance via API integrations.
• Develop and support data security policies and compliance with regulations like GDPR.
• Manage the full data lifecycle, including upgrades, management, decommissioning, and archiving, in accordance with data retention policies.