Lead Data Governance Engineer
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Job description
A Lead Data Governance Engineer role focused on defining and executing data governance policies, processes, standards, and monitoring in compliance with internal policies and regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, DPA, and ISO. The role also involves developing Python-based tooling to automate operations of an internal data mesh solution.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
- Languages
- English – Professional written and spoken
What you'll do
- Define, monitor, and execute data governance policies
- Design, implement, and maintain tooling for automated data mesh operations
- Deploy and operate services developed by the team
- Depending on your seniority, coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Experience with data quality, governance, and security processes and tools
- Experience with software development in Python and SQL
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- Performance engineering and security experience
- Experience with Airbyte, Ranger, Superset, Temporal, or Trino
Your team
Data Governance team in the Commercial Systems unit
The team has a mission to enable a secure and well-governed access to comprehensive data sets originating at many internal and external data sources formed in a data mesh. The team works with well-known open-source data governance tools such as Trino and Ranger, defines and executes data governance processes, and democratizes the data at Canonical.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
To be a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open-source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
What they value
- Excellence
- Result-oriented
- Fairness globally
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background