Lead, Data Governance

What you'll do

• Build and maintain governance policies, classification standards, ownership, and exception processes; oversee data access controls and reviews.
• Maintain data inventories, metadata, lineage, and quality standards, and support audits, risk tracking, and cross-border data requests.
• Review data vendors and use cases with Security, Privacy, and Legal, and define guardrails for AI and agentic use of corporate data.

What they ask for

• 5+ years in data governance, data security, GRC, privacy engineering, or a related field.
• At least 2 years working with modern data platforms such as lakehouses/warehouses, SQL engines, BI, or semantic layers.
• Understanding of data governance frameworks and experience building or running data classification, access control, or entitlement review programs.
• Working knowledge of financial-services privacy and regulatory requirements, plus experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar audits.

Nice to have

• Fintech, brokerage, or regulated financial services background; hands-on experience with named data tools or reviewing AI/ML and analytics tools.
• Relevant certifications, privacy or vendor/DPA review experience, cross-border data experience, ERM exposure, or experience as a first governance hire.

Pay

USD $500 one-time home-office setup; USD $150 per month stipend via a Brex Card

Tools

Trino, Ranger, Cube, Metabase, GCP, dbt, Airflow, Iceberg

AI focus

Help define guardrails for AI and agentic use of corporate data in analytics workflows, and review AI query tools and other AI/ML tools.