Data Governance Engineer

Data Governance Engineer Contract duration: 12months Location: On site in Wilmington, NC. Pay range: $50.00- $80.00 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: Help define data, create data dictionaries, and ensure the organizations metadata is well-maintained. Develop and maintain data governance policies and procedures. Facilitate metadata discovery and data cataloging efforts Build technical data dictionaries and support business glossaries to analyze the datasets Perform data profiling and data analysis for source systems, manually maintained data, machine generated data and target data repositories Develop and maintain data mapping specifications based on the results of data analysis and functional requirements Perform a variety of data loads & data transformations using multiple tools and technologies. Analyze reference datasets and familiarize with Master Data Management (MDM) tools. Analyze the impact of downstream systems and products Derive solutions and make recommendations from deep dive data analysis. Design and build Data Quality (DQ) rules needed Skills/ experience include: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Library Science or “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) with minimum years of experience 4 years Exposure with data management tools such as data catalogs, metadata management tools and databases Certification in data management or related areas (e.g. DMP, DM-BOK, etc.) Exposure to industry standard data catalog, automated data discovery and data lineage tools (e.g., Informatica, Alation, Collibra, TAMR etc.) Exposure to industry standard data modeling tools (e.g., ERWin, ER Studio, etc.). Exposure to Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) tools like Informatica or Talend Hands-on experience in writing SQL scripts for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or HiveQL US Citizenship required Job Type: Contract Pay: $50.00 - $80.00 per hour Expected hours: 40.00 per week Work Location: In person