Data Governance Engineer

Knoxville, TN | Data Governance Engineer | Full-time | Contract-to-Hire
We are actively recruiting a Data Governance Engineer for our client in Knoxville, TN. This is a contract-to-hire, hybrid opportunity requiring a minimum of 2 days onsite per week. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Governance professional to help build and operationalize an enterprise governance function from the ground up. Must have 5+ years of direct Data Governance experience and hands-on experience with data catalogs, lineage, metadata, data quality, stewardship, and data certification.
What You’ll Do

• Build and operationalize enterprise Data Governance processes, standards, and workflows.
• Administer and improve data catalog, metadata, business glossary, lineage, and certification capabilities.
• Establish data quality requirements, stewardship practices, and data ownership models.
• Partner with Data Engineering to embed governance into modern data pipelines and platforms.
• Work with business data owners and stewards to improve data quality, discoverability, and trust.
• Help evaluate, configure, and implement Data Governance technology.
• Facilitate governance working sessions and drive adoption across technical and business teams.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of hands-on enterprise Data Governance experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of data catalogs, data lineage, metadata management, data quality, stewardship, and dataset certification.
• Experience within a mature Data Governance environment and the ability to apply established governance practices in a developing function.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview strongly preferred; Collibra, Alation, Informatica, or comparable governance platforms also relevant.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Azure, data lakes, data warehouses, or similar modern data platforms preferred.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across business and technical teams.
• Self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and motivated by building new capabilities rather than simply maintaining existing processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled