Northrop Grumman · 1 month ago
Principal Data Governance Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$104K/yr - $171K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Engineer to join their 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 within the company's enterprise data ecosystem.
AerospaceBig DataManufacturingData IntegrationRemote SensingSecurity
No H1B
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
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
Preferred
Knowledge of privacy and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, ITAR, SOX)
Experience with ontology-based or semantic data modeling approaches
Background in large-scale deployment of data Lakehouse such as Databricks
Good understanding of large enterprise systems such as Workday, SAP, Salesforce and ServiceNow
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Benefits
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.
Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
Company
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of WarNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
Leadership Team
Chuck Jones
Vice President, Sector Chief Information & Digital Officer
Michael Hardesty
Corporate Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer
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