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Data Governance Lead

1 day, 3 hours ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Data Architect
Data Science and Analytics
Kafka Snowflake
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AHEAD

AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help...

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Description

  • Build and operate the enterprise data catalog, including onboarding domains and enforcing metadata standards.
  • Implement automated lineage capture across ingestion pipelines, transformations, and data product publication.
  • Write, maintain, and operationalize data quality checks and remediation workflows in pipeline layers.
  • Configure and enforce Snowflake governance controls, including RBAC, security policies, tagging, and masking.
  • Build self-service access request and approval workflows for domain connections.
  • Define and enforce event contract governance, including schema standards, registry configuration, retention, and access policies.
  • Create governance dashboards and metrics for stewardship, quality, metadata, lineage, policy adoption, and access SLAs.
  • Define the enterprise data governance strategy, standards, roadmap, and operating model.
  • Partner with security, risk, legal, architecture, and platform engineers to implement governance controls in delivery work.
  • Build and lead a small governance function as the platform matures.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in data governance, data platform engineering, data architecture, analytics engineering, or related roles.
  • At least 3 years in a leadership or lead role overseeing governance programs, stewardship models, or data operating frameworks.
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating governance capabilities in a modern cloud data platform.
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake governance controls, including RBAC, row/column security, classification tags, masking policies, and access governance.
  • Hands-on experience implementing data catalogs and lineage tools.
  • Experience writing and maintaining data quality rules within data pipelines.
  • Experience governing event contracts and schemas in Kafka, MuleSoft, or similar streaming/messaging environments.
  • Experience defining and executing data product governance standards and lifecycle management.
  • Experience designing governance controls for AI or agent-based use cases.
  • Experience working embedded within engineering teams and implementing controls alongside engineers.
  • Strong understanding of data governance disciplines, including ownership, stewardship, quality, metadata, lineage, cataloging, classification, retention, and policy adoption.
  • Experience in regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-driven environments preferred.
  • Strong communication skills and systems thinking.
  • Practical understanding of how governance must support AI, automation, and agent-based execution safely.

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