Data Governance Engineer

You will be responsible for scaling, automation, and optimizing HBX data governance policies and processes across all the 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 delivering technical solutions related to:

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

Responsibilities :

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

• Designing and implementing automatic Data Governance policies and procedures, bad practices detection, and data quality issues prevention across different layers of the data stack and phases of the data lifecycle
• Designing and implementing automatic Data Management policies, procedures, and controls (policy as code) to prevent data misusage
• Designing and implementing automatic Data Quality controls, validation, metrics, and alerts
• Coordinating with Data Governance Enterprise Architect to design optimal data architecture & infrastructure for governed and quality data extraction, transformation, and loading using SQL, Python, and AWS technologies
• Building and deploying Data Governance tools for Data Analysts and Data Scientists to support product development and innovation

Skills

Education:

• Computer & Information Science / Computer Engineering / Mathematics
• Master's Degree in BI & Data Analytics, Big Data

Experience:

• Advanced Python knowledge and experience with databases for enterprise applications and ML
• Advanced SQL knowledge and experience with relational databases
• Data Security management (encryption, masking, GDPR, PCI, secrets, SSO, MFA)
• Experience in root cause analysis and process improvement
• Experience in Data systems automation and administration

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 or similar
• Visualization Tools: Tableau or similar
• Version Control: Bitbucket, Gitlab, Github

Documentation:

• Atlassian Confluence or similar

Soft Skills:

• Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Kanban
• End-to-end process orientation
• Strategic Thinking
• Data literacy and fostering a data-driven culture

Day-to-day activities

• Govern and manage the HBX Data Platform Stack in terms of security, user management, roles, permissions, and policies
• Design and implement automated data governance policies and preventive controls
• Implement detective controls and alerts across tools and processes
• Ensure data platform connectivity and governance via API
• Develop data security policies and controls to ensure compliance with regulations (GDPR, Privacy, etc.)
• Support full data lifecycle management including upgrades, decommissioning, and archiving in line with data retention policies

Location: Pontevedra, Galicia, SPAIN