Data Governance Engineer
Role Overview
Ensure the platform can demonstrate effective data governance.
Work with pipeline engineers and the platform operations team; serve as a contact for auditors.
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Role overview
Ensure the platform can demonstrate effective data governance.
Work with pipeline engineers and the platform operations team; serve as a contact for auditors.
What you will do
- Establish and operate data catalog, lineage, and metadata capture across pipelines and models.
- Define and enforce data-quality rules and publish validation and quality reports.
- Classify datasets under the client's scheme and specify access rules for each level; operations implements the rules.
- Maintain governance documents covering architecture, data models, lineage, catalog, metadata, quality, security, and access.
- Advise data and ML engineers on masking, de-identification, and retention.
- Prepare client and regulator audit evidence and write governance sections of architecture documents.
What you need
- Know NDMO and PDPL requirements in Saudi Arabia, or equivalent requirements elsewhere.
- Know cybersecurity controls for data, including classification, access, and encryption policy.
- Know data catalog, lineage, and metadata tools; Google Data Catalog or Dataplex is a plus.
- Know data-quality frameworks and reporting.
- Know data-classification schemes and classification-based access design.
- Know access-policy design, roles, RBAC matrices, and least privilege.
- Have experience writing formal governance documents and audit evidence for government or regulated clients.
- Have enough SQL knowledge to profile and validate data.
Good to have
- DAMA CDMP or equivalent and government-audit experience.
- Master-data or reference-data management experience.
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