Hybrid Data Governance Engineer – Strategy, Data Architecture

at Fiserv

• Job title: Data Governance Engineer – Strategy, Data Architecture
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $109,000 - $182,400 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: BigQuery, Cloud, Cyber Security, Google Cloud Platform, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Columbus, United States

About the role

• Data Governance Engineer in Fintech developing a formal cyber data governance framework. Collaborating with cyber security, analytics, and platform engineering teams on metadata and lineage capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Implement the technical components of a formal data governance framework, including metadata schemas, policy-to-code patterns and architecture blueprints for cyber data.
• Run domain discovery workshops to define priority cyber data domains, data owners and critical data elements (CDEs), and capture resulting artifacts in the metadata catalog.
• Inventory and rationalize security reports and dashboards, mapping each dashboard to source datasets, accountable owners and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Enable analytics pilots by designing and delivering curated, well-documented datasets for security and compliance analyst consumption.
• Integrate and automate metadata harvesting from Google BigQuery into a metadata catalog, and onboard Talend, Axonius and Bindplane as governed telemetry and asset sources.
• Define canonical taxonomies and dataset contracts for core cyber concepts such as “asset,” “identity,” “event” and “alert” to drive consistency across platforms.
• Provide end-to-end lineage and provenance for analytics artifacts and model features to support model operationalization and governance requirements.
• Support self-service business intelligence (BI) adoption by publishing dataset contracts, access patterns and technical documentation for Power BI and Looker.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in data architecture, metadata and lineage engineering or data engineering, including implementing governance solutions for security or telemetry data using cloud data platforms.
• 4+ years of experience designing and implementing solutions on Google Cloud Platform, including Google BigQuery and Google Cloud data and security products such as Data Catalog, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) and Security Command Center.
• 4+ years of experience integrating and managing data pipelines using Talend or similar integration tools, including onboarding telemetry and asset sources such as Axonius and Bindplane into governed data environments.
• 4+ years of experience in data modeling and SQL, including building and maintaining lineage and automated metadata harvesting solutions across complex data ecosystems.
• 3+ years of experience inventorying and rationalizing reports and dashboards, mapping KPIs to source data and standardizing reporting across business or security domains.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex data governance and architecture concepts clearly and effectively with cyber security, analytics and platform stakeholders, including leading working sessions and producing actionable documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics or a related field, or equivalent combination of education, related experience and/or military experience.

Benefits

• Fuel Your Life program to support your physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being.
• Paid holidays and generous time away policies.
• No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs.
• Living Proof program to recognize your peers’ extra effort with points redeemable for rewards.
• Eight Employee Resource Groups to foster a collaborative culture and expand your network.
• Unparalleled professional growth with training, development, and internal mobility opportunities.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options available from day one.
• Retirement planning and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Tuition assistance and reimbursement program.
• Paid parental, caregiver, and military leave.