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# Data Quality & Governance specialist

- **Company:** Remofirst Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, Digital Assets, Meta-Data Management, Standard Sql, SQL Databases, Collibra
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a1d6cdc238eecaef

## About the Role

Do you have experience in SQL?, * 3+ years in Data Quality, Governance.

 * Hands-on experience running Data Quality and Data Governance initiatives in production.
 * Strong DBT and SQL skills.
 * Experience with data cataloging tools like OpenMetadata, DataHub, Collibra, or similar.
 * Experience building DQ dashboards and communicating with business stakeholders.
 * Strong ownership and ability to work independently.

## Description

Data Quality

 * Own the end-to-end Data Quality program: SLAs, monitoring, testing, issue resolution and continuous improvement.
 * Drive requirements gathering with business and data teams to define and document technical and business data quality rules.
 * Build and maintain dbt-based Data Quality tests across the medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold layers).
 * Build DQ dashboards and lead root-cause analysis to improve trust in data.

Data Governance

 * Build and maintain the enterprise data catalog and business glossary, ensuring metadata, ownership, lineage, and business definitions remain accurate, documented, and discoverable.
 * Partner with domain teams to capture institutional knowledge and translate business context into shared metadata, glossary definitions, classifications, and governed semantic context.
 * Enable trusted and reusable data foundations for analytics and AI use cases by improving discoverability, context, and governance of data assets.
 * Support governance and compliance practices for sensitive and regulated data.

Cross-Functional Leadership

 * Act as the bridge between Data and Business teams on definitions, ownership, trust, and governance decisions.
 * Facilitate workshops with domain owners to define business rules and data contracts.
 * Drive data discoverability and become the trusted point of contact for data meaning and reliability.


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