Senior Data Governance Engineer | Quality & Access Control

Xcel Energy Inc

Denver (CO)

On-site

USD 98,000 - 139,000

Full time

2 days ago

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401(k) plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

Xcel Energy seeks a Data Governance Engineer to design, implement, and own enterprise data governance capabilities across quality, metadata, catalog, and protection. You will translate policy into technical controls and guide junior engineers while collaborating with data stewards and cyber security teams.

You will lead cross-domain initiatives, develop reusable patterns, and evaluate tooling for platform-wide data governance.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
5+ years in data management, data engineering, or data governance engineering.
Advanced SQL and Python proficiency.
Experience delivering enterprise data management capabilities end to end.

Responsibilities

Design and implement data quality frameworks across multiple data domains.
Design metadata and lineage capture automation for source systems and consumption assets.
Develop classification and access control patterns with policy-based tagging and masking.
Build reusable governance components, libraries, and APIs as engineering patterns.
Mentor engineers and lead technical workstreams within governance programs.
Partner with data owners, platform engineering, architecture, and security to translate policy into controls.