Data Governance Lead — SQL, Azure & Databricks (Hybrid)

Eliassen Group; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in Irvine, CA is seeking a deeply technical Manager, Data Governance to design and operationalize an enterprise data governance program across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain data domains. This hands-on role focuses on SQL, Azure, Databricks, and Python, and partners with Security on AI governance.

This is a contract-to-hire opportunity with W2 benefits; rate ranges from $80.00 to $90.00 per hour. The position is hybrid, with 3 days/week onsite in Irvine.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years in data engineering, analytics, or architecture; 3+ years in governance or data platform roles.
• Proven track record building and scaling governance programs.
• Hands-on experience deploying a data catalog and integrating with active pipelines.
• Experience writing and enforcing data contracts across multi-team environments.
• Translate regulatory requirements into platform-level technical controls.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives with engineering, product, legal, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Build the governance framework from the ground up with ownership models, taxonomies, data contracts, and lineage standards.
• Implement and administer governance tooling such as Cyera, Alation, Atlan, or Atlas.
• Engineer data quality rules in Databricks and SQL, integrate controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Design metadata management for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Define and enforce naming conventions, schema standards, and model governance across domains.
• Lead data mesh or data product governance models as appropriate.
• Deploy platforms for catalog, lineage, quality, and access control and automate quality pipelines.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Azure

Databricks

Data governance

Data lineage

Data quality

RBAC/ABAC

Data contracts

MDM design

cross-functional leadership

Tools

Cyera

Alation

Atlan

Apache Atlas

Great Expectations

dbt tests

Soda Core

Monte Carlo

OpenLineage

Marquez

Terraform

Job description

Eliassen Group in Irvine, CA is seeking a deeply technical Manager, Data Governance to design and operationalize an enterprise data governance program across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain data domains. This hands-on role focuses on SQL, Azure, Databricks, and Python, and partners with Security on AI governance.

This is a contract-to-hire opportunity with W2 benefits; rate ranges from $80.00 to $90.00 per hour. The position is hybrid, with 3 days/week onsite in Irvine.