Senior Data Strategy & Governance Scientist (Hybrid, Triangle)

Software People, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 179,000; Part time

Job summary

Software People, Inc. seeks a Senior Data Scientist contractor to lead enterprise data strategy, governance, and modern data architecture initiatives in Raleigh-area teams. You will align business and technical stakeholders to establish data definitions, lineage, and reusable patterns across platforms.

Remote work is common, with occasional on-site in Triangle-area offices as required by management. 12+ month engagement, on-site collection of equipment on day one.

Qualifications

• Advanced enterprise data strategy expertise.
• Proven governance and data quality experience.
• Ability to define data definitions and lineage across units.
• Experience standardizing data ingestion, transformation and cleansing patterns.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to understand data needs and opportunities.
• Identify authoritative data sources and establish common definitions.
• Incorporate governance, metadata, lineage into ongoing initiatives.
• Standardize data ingestion, transformation, cleansing across projects using Azure tools.
• Maintain inventory of enterprise data assets, owners and relationships.
• Document data flows across applications and platforms.
• Support data architecture discussions for scalability and reuse.

Skills

Data strategy

Data governance

Data architecture

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Software People, Inc. seeks a Senior Data Scientist contractor to lead enterprise data strategy, governance, and modern data architecture initiatives in Raleigh-area teams. You will align business and technical stakeholders to establish data definitions, lineage, and reusable patterns across platforms.

Remote work is common, with occasional on-site in Triangle-area offices as required by management. 12+ month engagement, on-site collection of equipment on day one.