

Data Governance Engineer
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This role is a Data Governance Engineer for a 12-month contract in Wilmington, NC, paying $60.00-$90.00 per hour. Requires a Bachelor's in Computer Science or STEM, 4 years of experience, and certifications in data management. US Citizenship is mandatory.
π - Country
United States
π± - Currency
$ USD
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π° - Day rate
720
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ποΈ - Date discovered
September 27, 2025
π - Project duration
More than 6 months
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ποΈ - Location type
On-site
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π - Contract type
W2 Contractor
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π - Security clearance
Unknown
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π - Location detailed
Wilmington, NC
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π§ - Skills detailed
#Leadership #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Data Transformations #Alation #Data Management #Informatica #MySQL #Collibra #HiveQL #Tamr #Data Mapping #Datasets #Data Profiling #Data Analysis #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Data Governance #Data Lineage #Data Catalog #PostgreSQL #Databases #Data Quality #Oracle #Talend #DMP (Data Management Platform) #Compliance #Computer Science #Data Modeling #ERWin #Metadata #MDM (Master Data Management)
Role description
Data Governance Engineer
β’ Contract duration: 12months
β’ Location: On site in Wilmington, NC.
β’ Pay range: $60.00- $90.00 per hour/ W2. Please note, this contract does not include benefits.
In this position, you will be responsible for practical implementation of data governance policies. You will be a subject matter expert who assist with managing and maintaining data, enforcing data quality, resolving data-related issues, ensure compliance with regulations. Primary conduit between the business, information management, information technology and engineering organizations.
Key Responsibilities include:
β’ Help define data, create data dictionaries, and ensure the organizations metadata is well-maintained.
β’ Develop and maintain data governance policies and procedures.
β’ Facilitate metadata discovery and data cataloging efforts
β’ Build technical data dictionaries and support business glossaries to analyze the datasets
β’ Perform data profiling and data analysis for source systems, manually maintained data, machine generated data and target data repositories
β’ Develop and maintain data mapping specifications based on the results of data analysis and functional requirements
β’ Perform a variety of data loads & data transformations using multiple tools and technologies.
β’ Analyze reference datasets and familiarize with Master Data Management (MDM) tools.
β’ Analyze the impact of downstream systems and products
β’ Derive solutions and make recommendations from deep dive data analysis.
β’ Design and build Data Quality (DQ) rules needed
Skills/ experience include:
β’ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Library Science or βSTEMβ Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum years of experience 4 years
β’ Exposure with data management tools such as data catalogs, metadata management tools and databases
β’ Certification in data management or related areas (e.g. DMP, DM-BOK, etc.)
β’ Exposure to industry standard data catalog, automated data discovery and data lineage tools (e.g., Informatica, Alation, Collibra, TAMR etc.)
β’ Exposure to industry standard data modeling tools (e.g., ERWin, ER Studio, etc.).
β’ Exposure to Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) tools like Informatica or Talend
β’ Hands-on experience in writing SQL scripts for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or HiveQL
β’ US Citizenship required
Desired skills include:
β’ Experience with Engineering, Procure and Construct Companies
β’ Experience with CFIHOS
β’ Experience with multiple Data Domains
β’ Leadership Skills: Ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., UX, GE Business teams) and understand the inter-dependencies between them.
β’ Ability to showcase teamwork skills to achieve common goals, provide resolutions and share ideas.
β’ Demonstrate the presentation and influencing skills
Data Governance Engineer
β’ Contract duration: 12months
β’ Location: On site in Wilmington, NC.
β’ Pay range: $60.00- $90.00 per hour/ W2. Please note, this contract does not include benefits.
In this position, you will be responsible for practical implementation of data governance policies. You will be a subject matter expert who assist with managing and maintaining data, enforcing data quality, resolving data-related issues, ensure compliance with regulations. Primary conduit between the business, information management, information technology and engineering organizations.
Key Responsibilities include:
β’ Help define data, create data dictionaries, and ensure the organizations metadata is well-maintained.
β’ Develop and maintain data governance policies and procedures.
β’ Facilitate metadata discovery and data cataloging efforts
β’ Build technical data dictionaries and support business glossaries to analyze the datasets
β’ Perform data profiling and data analysis for source systems, manually maintained data, machine generated data and target data repositories
β’ Develop and maintain data mapping specifications based on the results of data analysis and functional requirements
β’ Perform a variety of data loads & data transformations using multiple tools and technologies.
β’ Analyze reference datasets and familiarize with Master Data Management (MDM) tools.
β’ Analyze the impact of downstream systems and products
β’ Derive solutions and make recommendations from deep dive data analysis.
β’ Design and build Data Quality (DQ) rules needed
Skills/ experience include:
β’ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Library Science or βSTEMβ Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum years of experience 4 years
β’ Exposure with data management tools such as data catalogs, metadata management tools and databases
β’ Certification in data management or related areas (e.g. DMP, DM-BOK, etc.)
β’ Exposure to industry standard data catalog, automated data discovery and data lineage tools (e.g., Informatica, Alation, Collibra, TAMR etc.)
β’ Exposure to industry standard data modeling tools (e.g., ERWin, ER Studio, etc.).
β’ Exposure to Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) tools like Informatica or Talend
β’ Hands-on experience in writing SQL scripts for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or HiveQL
β’ US Citizenship required
Desired skills include:
β’ Experience with Engineering, Procure and Construct Companies
β’ Experience with CFIHOS
β’ Experience with multiple Data Domains
β’ Leadership Skills: Ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams (e.g., UX, GE Business teams) and understand the inter-dependencies between them.
β’ Ability to showcase teamwork skills to achieve common goals, provide resolutions and share ideas.
β’ Demonstrate the presentation and influencing skills