• You will own the governance foundation that underpins the MaintainX data platform, product and internal analytics, spanning quality, access, classification, discoverability, lineage, retention, and compliance
• You will extend your influence across engineering systems and company-wide data sources, implementing frameworks, tooling, and policies that ensure the data ecosystem is well-governed at MaintainX
• Own and evolve the data governance framework across the data platform, including quality, access, discoverability, retention, classification, residency, compliance, and lifecycle
• Define and enforce data quality standards; build and maintain data contracts, automated quality checks and data observability tooling
• Manage data access controls across the data platform (Unity Catalog, RBAC, row/column-level security, service principal management)
• Own data retention and residency policies; implement lifecycle management
• Build and maintain the metadata and catalog layer for data discoverability and lineage
• Partner with other governance teams to translate compliance requirements into data platform controls

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Training and development investments
• Competitive salary and equity opportunities
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage- We are seeking a Senior Data Developer with a strong background in data governance to join our growing team
• Strong opinions about decentralized data governance
• Experience implementing compliance requirements end-to-end (ex: SOC2, FedRAMP, GDPR) from policy interpretation to platform controls
• Experience building data governance programs in a modern cloud lakehouse environment
• Hands-on experience with data quality and observability tooling
• Strong opinions about data contracts and producer/consumer accountability
• Comfortable driving standards, building frameworks, and influencing practices cross-functionally without direct authority
• Experience with access control patterns in cloud data platforms (RBAC, row/column-level security)
• Experience implementing data governance in both a product and internal context (customer-owned data vs. MaintainX-owned data)
• Experience implementing data governance within Databricks (Unity Catalog)
• Familiarity with data mesh principles and domain-oriented data ownership