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The Senior Data Governance Engineer is passionate about data governance, privacy, and compliance and is responsible for enabling DailyPay’s data governance program, including improving existing processes for managing the control and protection of sensitive data and information assets.
In this role, you will focus on ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework, including data policies, standards, practices, and compliance with regulatory and contractual security and privacy requirements. You will coordinate with data stewards to help develop new data-centric systems and services, maximising the value of data while minimising risks.
This role will be instrumental in creating data oversight standards, PII discovery approaches, data quality frameworks, and data dictionary/lineage documentation. The ideal candidate brings strong collaborative qualities alongside deep technical expertise in data engineering and a passion for data-driven operational excellence.
If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.
Program Alignment: Ensure adherence to an enterprise data governance framework, including data policies, standards, practices, and compliance with regulatory/contractual security requirements throughout the information lifecycle.
Capability Building: Help establish scalable enterprise data governance capabilities across people, processes, and technologies, including building standards, creating data definitions, and training stakeholders.
Data Management: Execution of business processes within the data governance program, including data profiling, enforcing specific data quality rules, and cataloging data items to ensure proper lineage is maintained.
Platform Administration: Oversee the implementation and management of data governance platform technologies, serving as a primary administrator and subject matter expert.
Architecture Collaboration: Participate in the design of functional data management systems as an integrated part of the enterprise architecture.
Stakeholder Communication: Design, document, and communicate data architecture and business expertise to Stakeholders (Business Analysts, Data Scientists etc) during system development.
Standards & Currency: Ensure scalable enterprise data currency, accuracy, precision, retention, and security approaches.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with IT, engineering, legal, privacy, security, compliance, and business team members to define data governance requirements and standards.
Metrics & Reporting: Develop reporting methods to measure progress and metrics of data governance initiatives.
Documentation: Create documentation and educational materials to improve the overall knowledge of data management across the enterprise.
Data Governance Experience: 3+ years of Data Governance experience, within a regulated industry (such as fintech, payments, banking, or healthcare).
Regulatory Awareness: Knowledge of data-related regulatory requirements, including practical exposure to privacy laws such as GLBA, CCPA, or GDPR and privacy compliance implementation.
Technical Literacy: A solid conceptual understanding of modern data architecture, including SQL/NoSQL databases, cloud data services (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and distributed systems (e.g., Spark, Kafka). While hands-on development isn't the primary focus, you should be comfortable navigating these environments and running queries to extract data when needed.
Tooling & Observability: Broad awareness of modern data/BI tools and version control workflows. You should comfortable navigating observability and alerting platforms to spot inconsistencies, acting as the key point of contact to collaborate with and inform technical teams when fixes are required
Strategic Influence and communication: Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions. You possess a proven track record of collaborating with—and pushing back on—high-level stakeholders (VP and above). You can confidently defend technical realities and guide executive expectations when requirements conflict with best practices.
Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Science, Information Management, or equivalent.
Competitive compensation
Opportunity for equity ownership
Private health insurance option
Employee Resource Groups
Fun company outings and events
Generous PTO Allowance
5% Pension contribution
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High-performing cultures aren't built in silos, they thrive on partnership. At DailyPay, we Commit Together to an inclusive, professional environment where multifaceted perspectives are our greatest competitive advantage. We recognize that our team members don’t live “single-issue lives,” and we lean into the wide-ranging backgrounds and life stages that sharpen our collective decision-making.
In our high-trust environment, we empower you to Challenge Norms. We’ve created a space where it is safe to ask difficult questions, disrupt the status quo, and share bold perspectives without fear of professional fallout. We believe that by checking our own assumptions and staying curious about the experiences of others, we arrive at better, more innovative results.
We provide the space for you to do your best work through peer advocacy and transparent career development. If you are looking for a culture that values intellectual honesty, celebrates the unique lived experiences of its people, and thrives on collective success, you’ll find it here.
If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to peopleops@dailypay.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.
DailyPay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.