HR Data Platform & Governance Architect

Meta; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 151,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is hiring a Data Platform & Governance Lead for HR Tech Data & Insights. You will own the Databricks architecture, the semantic layer, and governance standards for People data, ensuring policy-driven access and trusted data products across HR domains.

You will drive the migration from legacy stacks to governed Databricks data products, mentor teams, and collaborate with Directors and VPs to frame technical tradeoffs in business terms.

Qualifications

• Strong data governance experience with sensitive data.
• Deep hands-on Databricks expertise incl. Unity Catalog and Delta Lake.
• Ability to present technical strategy to executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical layer of the People Operations Data strategy.
• Provide governance standards and oversee Databricks implementation for people data.
• Design catalog, schema, ACLs, row filters, and masking for protected data.
• Define semantic layer and certified datasets across People Ops.
• Lead migration from legacy Hive/Presto to governed Databricks data products.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

Governance

SQL

Python

Data Platform

Executive Stakeholders

Migration

Education

Bachelor's in CS

Tools

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Databricks SQL

Spark

Airflow

Job description

Meta is hiring a Data Platform & Governance Lead for HR Tech Data & Insights. You will own the Databricks architecture, the semantic layer, and governance standards for People data, ensuring policy-driven access and trusted data products across HR domains.

You will drive the migration from legacy stacks to governed Databricks data products, mentor teams, and collaborate with Directors and VPs to frame technical tradeoffs in business terms.