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Northrop Grumman · 6 hours ago

Principal Data Governance Engineer

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$104K/yr - $171K/yr

3+ years exp

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Engineer to join our Insights & Intelligence team within the Chief Information and Digital Office. The role involves designing, implementing, and operationalizing data governance capabilities to ensure data is trusted, secure, compliant, and fit for business use.

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Responsibilities

Design and implement technical frameworks to support enterprise data governance, including metadata management, data lineage, data quality, and data classification

Support the implementation and management of a common data model

Collaborate with data engineering and platform teams to Integrate governance controls into data ingestion, transformation, and consumption pipelines

Collaborate with data engineering to deploy automated data quality checks, monitoring, and issue remediation processes

Support data ownership and stewardship models by providing tooling and technical enablement

Collaborate with data architects, data engineers, security, privacy, and business stakeholders to ensure governance requirements are embedded into platform designs

Support regulatory, compliance, privacy, and risk requirements (e.g., PII identification, retention, access controls)

Define and enforce standards for data modeling, naming conventions, and metadata capture

Evaluate and onboard data governance, metadata, and quality tools as needed

Produce technical documentation, reference architecture, and implementation guidelines

Qualification

Data governanceSQLPythonDatabricksCloud data platformsData qualityMetadata managementData lineageCI/CD integrationStakeholder engagementData modelingRegulatory knowledgeCommunication skills

Required

Must have, at minimum, a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field with 5 years of relevant experience or a Master's degree with 3 years of relevant experience

Must have hands-on experience implementing data governance capabilities within modern data platforms such as Databricks, through Unity Catalog

Must have strong SQL and Python skills and experience with cloud data platforms such as Databricks

Familiarity with data governance concepts including data ownership, stewardship, lineage, metadata, and data quality

Experience integrating governance with CI/CD and DevOps practices