Principal Data Governance Platform Architect

Alignment Health; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Alignment Health is seeking a Principal, Data Governance Platforms to lead enterprise data governance capabilities, spanning metadata, master data, data quality, and lineage. You will architect and implement scalable governance solutions, partnering closely with data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams.

Responsibilities include defining platform strategy, leading lifecycle operations, and embedding governance into data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Business, Health Informatics, or related field.
• Hands-on platform experience with at least one enterprise data catalog (Purview/Alation), one MDM platform (Reltio/Informatica/Profisee), and one data quality/observability tool.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture for governance platforms including metadata, MDM, data quality, and lineage.
• Lead implementation of governance platforms with integration, testing, and go-live activities.
• Enable governance-aligned data integration, transformation, and standardization in pipelines.
• Design automated governance workflows for quality rules, lineage capture, and MDM matching.
• Maintain lineage and observability across data ecosystems from source to analytics.

Skills

Metadata management

Data catalog

MDM

Data quality

Observability

SQL

Cloud architecture

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Reltio

Informatica MDM

Profisee

Acceldata

Informatica DQ

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Job description

Alignment Health is seeking a Principal, Data Governance Platforms to lead enterprise data governance capabilities, spanning metadata, master data, data quality, and lineage. You will architect and implement scalable governance solutions, partnering closely with data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams.

Responsibilities include defining platform strategy, leading lifecycle operations, and embedding governance into data pipelines.