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Lead Data Governance Engineer
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Role is fully remote based in the EMEA region
- Must-have qualifications include Python and SQL development experience, plus data quality, governance, and security process and tooling experience
- Annual personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000
- Must have ability to travel internationally twice per year for company events lasting up to two weeks
- Nice-to-have experience includes working with Trino, Ranger, Airbyte, Superset, or Temporal
- Canonical is a profitable, founder-led, growing open source software company
Role overview
Canonical is a leading global provider of open-source software and operating systems, best known for its widely adopted Ubuntu platform that supports enterprise initiatives across public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. A profitable, founder-led, growing company, Canonical operates as a fully distributed global team with over 1200 colleagues across more than 80 countries, holding in-person team gatherings two to four times yearly in locations worldwide. Canonical is hiring a remote Lead Data Governance Engineer based in the EMEA region to join its Commercial Systems Data Governance team. The role focuses on developing and executing data governance policies, building Python-based tooling for automated data mesh operations, and supporting secure, well-governed access to internal and external data sets, with work aligned to regulatory frameworks including GDPR, DPA, and ISO standards.
Responsibilities
- Define, monitor, and execute data governance policies, processes, and standards in compliance with internal policies and applicable regulatory frameworks including GDPR, DPA, and ISO
- Design, implement, and maintain Python-based tooling to automate operations of an internal data mesh solution, including for data labeling, quality metrics, data access management, and data security best practices
- Deploy and operate services developed by the Data Governance team
- Depending on seniority, coach, mentor team members and offer career development feedback
- Develop and evangelize strong engineering and organizational practices
Requirements
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Experience with data quality, governance, and security processes and tools
- Experience with software development in Python and SQL
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- Performance engineering and security experience
- Experience with Airbyte, Ranger, Superset, Temporal, or Trino
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission in addition to base pay
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets
- Its Ubuntu platform is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT
- Canonical's customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution
- The company is founder led, profitable and growing
- The Data Governance team in the Commercial Systems unit has a mission to enable a secure and well-governed access to comprehensive data sets originating at many internal and external data sources formed in a data mesh
- The team works with well-known open-source data governance tools such as Trino and Ranger, defines and executes data governance processes, and democratizes the data at Canonical
- This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer, proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination, and gives all applicants fair consideration regardless of identity
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