Data Quality Assurance Lead, Data Governance

Step Up For Students; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Step Up For Students is seeking a data governance-focused professional to drive data quality controls and CDGC enablement. You will translate quality rules into technical implementations, validate data quality across domains, and collaborate with data engineers, stewards, and governance leads to ensure accurate, complete data for analytics and reporting.

The role emphasizes hands-on execution, profiling, and lineage validation across master data domains, with a strong emphasis on actionable

Qualifications

• Experience in data quality, metadata management, governance-focused roles.
• Hands-on with data quality tools for profiling, rule mapping, and monitoring.
• Strong SQL and data pipeline familiarity; scripting for automation.

Responsibilities

• Translate business data quality rules into technical implementations (SQL validations, scorecards).
• Implement data validation, cleansing, and standardization across domains to prevent invalid data.
• Partner with functional teams to monitor data quality controls in master data domains.
• Execute enterprise data quality frameworks including rule standardization and CDE alignment.
• Perform data profiling, completeness checks, anomaly detection, and referential integrity checks.
• Configure CDGC capabilities: dataset onboarding, metadata ingestion, catalog enrichment, governance.
• Develop and maintain data quality rule mapping, scorecards, dashboards and data health visibility.
• Support data lineage, onboarding of governed assets, and data product registration in CDGC.
• Conduct root cause analysis of data quality errors and propose upstream process improvements.

Skills

Data quality

Metadata management

Master data management

Data governance

SQL

Python/R

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science/Info Systems or related

Master's degree in related field

PhD (or equivalent)

Tools

Informatica CDGC

Purview

Alation

Collibra

CluedIn

Power BI

Job description

Step Up For Students is seeking a data governance-focused professional to drive data quality controls and CDGC enablement. You will translate quality rules into technical implementations, validate data quality across domains, and collaborate with data engineers, stewards, and governance leads to ensure accurate, complete data for analytics and reporting.

The role emphasizes hands-on execution, profiling, and lineage validation across master data domains, with a strong emphasis on actionable