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# Data Governance Engineer, Minneapolis, MN - Hybrid, 3 days onsite

- **Company:** Tror AI for everyone
- **Location:** Minneapolis, MN, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $86,200.0 - $111,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Big Data, Information Systems, Data Governance, Data Security, Data Warehousing, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Scrum Methodology, Tokenization, Privacy Controls, Data Lineage, AWS Glue, Data Management, Restful APIs, Azure Synapse Analytics
- **Published:** August 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usddbaa5ef97f0acb6b800826d1883620d

## About the Role

Must-Have Skills
8+ years of relevant experience.
2+ years specifically in Data Governance, Data Security, Data Privacy, or Data Quality.
Strong experience creating data governance policies, standards, frameworks, and security controls.
Strong knowledge of data privacy, classification, masking, de-identification, and tokenization.
Hands-on Alation and AWS Glue Data Catalog experience.
Strong Python + REST API experience.
AWS experience with S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, Step Functions, and Redshift.
Knowledge of data lineage, metadata, data quality, stewardship, and access governance.
Strong understanding of security, privacy, and compliance.
Good to Have
Healthcare / Health Insurance experience.
Bachelor's degree in CS, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field.
Agile/Scrum experience.
Airflow and modern data warehouse/big-data experience.
Ideal Candidate
We need candidates who can clearly explain:
I have created data governance policies, security controls, privacy standards, and governance frameworks not just maintained an existing catalog or governance platform.

## Description

This is primarily a Data Governance, Data Security, Privacy & Compliance role.
We are looking for someone who has strong hands-on experience creating and implementing data governance policies, security standards, controls, and frameworks ideally building them from the ground up.
This is not mainly a data catalog or data management support role. Candidates should have strong exposure to data policies, security, privacy, compliance, classification, access controls, and governance frameworks., Create and implement data governance policies, standards, frameworks, and controls.
Establish governance processes for data quality, metadata, lineage, stewardship, classification, and access.
Develop data security and privacy solutions, including masking, de-identification, and tokenization.
Work with Alation and AWS Glue Data Catalog for metadata, cataloging, lineage, and governance.
Use Python and REST APIs to automate governance processes.
Monitor data quality and governance controls and fix identified gaps.
Perform data governance, security, and compliance assessments/audits.
Work closely with Security, Compliance, Data, Engineering, and Business teams.
Build and improve governance solutions from prototype to production., We are looking for an experienced Principal Data Engineer to work hands-on on the re-engineering of an existing enterprise data platform built on Azure Synapse Analytics. The role …

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