Senior Data & AI Governance Architect

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.; Maryland; On-site; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. seeks a Data & AI Governance Manager to translate a Snowflake-based governance foundation into a scalable program. You will build access controls, data classification, and AI data-use standards, aligning engineering, data, product, and security teams.

Reporting to the CTO, you’ll drive governance readiness across the data stack, ensure compliance with emerging AI regulations, and provide audit-ready evidence for client reviews and due diligence.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data engineering, data architecture, or analytics engineering, including 3+ years implementing data governance controls hands-on.
• Expert SQL and Snowflake: role hierarchy design, secure and semantic views, object tagging, masking and row access policies, access history, and object dependencies.
• Experience managing access as code (Terraform, schemachange, or similar) with CI-based review.
• Experience governing data used by AI or ML systems, such as semantic layers, text-to-SQL, LLM agents, MCP, or feature pipelines.
• Python for automation and analysis.
• Has built a governance program from an early stage at a small or mid-size company, without a dedicated platform or team.
• Clear writer who can turn policy into enforceable controls and explain them to non-technical data owners.

Responsibilities

• Design Snowflake RBAC for people, applications, and AI agents; manage roles, grants, and policies as code with peer review.
• Maintain semantic views as the single governed read path for analytics and AI; certify semantic models and business definitions.
• Run quarterly access reviews with named approvers and enforced separation of duties.
• Detect and close access gaps created by ingestion and tooling.

Skills

SQL

Snowflake

Python

Data governance

Terraform

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Schemachange

Job description

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. seeks a Data & AI Governance Manager to translate a Snowflake-based governance foundation into a scalable program. You will build access controls, data classification, and AI data-use standards, aligning engineering, data, product, and security teams.

Reporting to the CTO, you’ll drive governance readiness across the data stack, ensure compliance with emerging AI regulations, and provide audit-ready evidence for client reviews and due diligence.