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# Data Governance Lead

- **Company:** Spectraforce
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, BigQuery, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Data Integration, Identity and Access Management, Metadata, Microsoft SharePoint, Systems Integration
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** http://leoforce.us/Careers/Spectraforce/JobDetails.html?jobid=e6c288f8-1dd5-425d-9094-02dbd121c655&OrgId=1&UserId=4643

## About the Role

* Proven experience operationalizing Data Governance frameworks, updating runbooks, and integrating Data & AI standards.
 * Ability to define data asset certification processes, enhance governance structures, and align domain/sub domain models with access management.
 * Skilled in formalizing and enabling Data Owner, Data Steward, and Technical Owner roles, including developing role definitions and delivering training.
 * Hands on experience with Atlan and Monte Carlo for configuration, integrations, lineage build out, data quality monitoring, and issue remediation workflows.
 * Ability to assess and improve AI/analytics tool interoperability, prioritize integrations, and establish standards aligned access and permissions.
 * Strong capabilities in data quality reporting, KPI creation, root cause analysis, and ongoing governance compliance reporting (including Data Health Score formulas).
 * Experience building and maintaining governance content hubs (e.g., SharePoint) and driving community engagement through training and enablement.
 * Strong communication and facilitation skills to advise and consult teams on Data Governance best practices, standards adoption, and appropriate use of data tools.
 * Experience supporting enterprise wide Data Governance initiatives, including standards harmonization, cross domain alignment, and coordination across business and technical teams.

Preferred:

 * Familiarity with agentic AI for data cleansing, metadata improvement, and prototype/MVP delivery.
 * Workflow & Playbook Automation: Ability to automate governance tasks using Atlan's API driven playbooks (e.g., bulk tagging, glossary propagation, asset certification).
 * Automated Metadata Enrichment: Experience using Atlan AI and agentic workflows to automate descriptions, README creation, and metadata suggestions.
 * GCP Integration & Migration: Expertise migrating GCP/BigQuery tags into Atlan and automating the identification/prioritization of assets for ingestion.
 * End to End Lineage Automation: Skilled in defining methods and building lineage across diverse tool stacks, including systems without native integrations.



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