{"id":4258556,"url":"https://alion.io/job/crown-castle-manager-data-engineering-data-ai-governance","title":"Manager, Data Engineering - Data & AI Governance","company":{"id":179399,"name":"Crown Castle","domain":"crowncastle.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/crown-castle","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"UltiPro","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Houston, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":128200,"max":168210,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":168210},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T14:56:42Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T14:30:41Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":45,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":45},"description":"POSITION TITLE: Manager, Data Engineering - Data & AI Governance (M2)\nFor more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.\nABOUT THE ROLE\nThe Manager of Engineering - Data & AI Governance is a forward-looking, highly technical, and relentlessly execution-oriented individual who will build a best-in-class governance and data quality capability over the next several years. This is not a traditional governance oversight role, and isn’t centered on administering committees, producing policy documents, or manually tracking compliance. This leader will establish the strategy and personally drive the engineering, automation, operating practices, and organizational adoption required to make trusted, governed, and AI-ready data an embedded characteristic of our enterprise data ecosystem. The mandate is not simply to operate governance more efficiently, but to fundamentally transform governance from a predominantly manual and reactive activity into an intelligent, continuous, measurable, and increasingly automated capability, using modern technology, reusable engineering patterns, and artificial intelligence.\nData governance and data quality will be the immediate priorities. The role will also build and mature AI governance in parallel with enterprise AI adoption, creating pragmatic guardrails that manage risk without unnecessarily slowing experimentation, innovation, or business value. The ideal candidate brings meaningful experience in software engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, and/or other closely related technical disciplines. We are searching for a builder who sees governance as a product and an engineering challenge, not an administrative function, and someone who is energized by an ambitious target, impatient with unnecessary manual work, and willing to personally solve difficult problems. They do not need to be an expert in data management or governance technology, but they must have technical capacity, curiosity, passion, and drive to work hands-on in leading data and AI governance and quality.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nEstablish and execute the roadmap to build a best-in-class Data & AI Governance Engineering capability at Crown Castle.\nDeliver measurable improvements in data quality, trust, ownership, lineage, accessibility, security, and AI readiness by applying modern practices and eliminating manual, bureaucratic processes.\nBalance the long-term governance vision with rapid execution against the highest-priority business needs, by introducing modern practices that improve speed, scale, quality, and business value.\nEmbed governance by design into data products, pipelines, semantic models, and platform services in partnership with technical, security, audit, and business teams.\nImplement and automate metadata, lineage, classification, access, quality, observability, and governance capabilities across Databricks and the broader data ecosystem.\nCreate reusable standards, controls, and reference patterns while remaining hands-on in prototyping, configuring, testing, troubleshooting, and improving critical capabilities.\nBuild an automation-first governance strategy that enables a small team to deliver enterprise-scale impact through modern technology and AI.\nDevelop intelligent workflows and assistants that guide data owners and stewards, automate routine decisions, and reduce the effort required to fulfill governance responsibilities.\nCreate measurable, exception-based operations that automatically surface risks, prioritize issues, route accountability, and focus the team on the areas requiring human judgment.\nEstablish clear, measurable expectations for trusted data products, including ownership, business meaning, quality, classification, service levels, and approved use.\nEnable users to confidently discover, understand, evaluate, and access governed data through an intuitive enterprise catalog and transparent quality information.\nDrive cross-functional resolution of systemic data quality issues by addressing root causes and strengthening accountability at the source.\nEstablish an enterprise inventory and lifecycle governance model for machine learning, generative AI, agents, and intelligent automation, from initial use-case evaluation through retirement.\nApply proportionate, risk-based governance that accelerates lower-risk innovation while strengthening controls for sensitive data, automated actions, consequential decisions, and material enterprise risks.\nPartner across Legal, Security, Privacy, Risk, Audit, Architecture, and the business to establish clear review, approval, monitoring, and accountability for enterprise AI solutions.\nWHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED\nEducation Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computational Science, or another highly quantitative discipline.\nMaster’s or a PhD in a relevant quantitative or computational discipline preferred.\nExperience Qualifications\n7 or more years’ experience with a Masters, or 5 or more years’ experience with a Master’s or PhD, of progressively advanced experience across software engineering, data engineering, analytics engineering, data platforms, data governance, data quality, and/or related disciplines.\nA passion and enthusiasm for data, AI, data governance, data management, and data quality.\nDemonstrated ability to lead strategy while remaining personally engaged in technical execution.\nStrong understanding of modern data architecture, data pipelines, data models, metadata, lineage, access controls, data quality, testing, and observability.\nWorking proficiency in one or more technical languages, preferably Python and SQL.\nExperience automating technical or operational processes through code, APIs, workflow orchestration, CI/CD, and/or platform capabilities.\nAbility to work hands-on in a modern cloud data environment and quickly learn new technologies.\nStrong judgment, analytical problem-solving, attention to detail, and personal accountability.\nAbility to influence across engineering, analytics, architecture, security, legal, risk, audit, and business organizations.\nExperience preferred with Databricks, Unity Catalog, and associated technologies.\nExperience preferred implementing data quality, data observability, metadata management, cataloging, lineage, classification, or policy automation.\nExperience preferred applying software engineering practices to data or governance capabilities, including source control, automated testing, deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, or reusable frameworks.\nExperience or familiarity preferred with data products, data contracts, semantic layers, federated governance, and self-service data access.\nExperience preferred with responsible AI, AI risk management, model governance, generative AI governance, and/or agent governance.\nOrganizational Relationship\nReports to: Director of Engineering - AI, Data, Analytics, and Governance\nTitle(s) of direct reports (if applicable): One (1) Data Governance Analyst\nWhere You Will Work\nTo optimize collaboration, relationship building, and key stakeholder engagement, this role aligns to a 4:1 hybrid model which is in office in Houston, TX, Monday-Thursday with the option for remote work on Fridays.\nYOUR COMPANY BENEFITS\nAt Crown Castle, we do our best to ensure you have access to the resources you need to live a healthy and happy life no matter where you are in life. Our benefits are built around your individual needs, covering physical, mental, and financial health and designed to enhance your quality of life.\nWe are proud to offer a full suite of health and wealth benefits for you and your loved ones. Below are a few of the key highlights of the many benefits we provide.\nComprehensive healthcare plans with highly company subsidized premiums and up to $2,000 annual company contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA base plan for employee and dependents).\nMarket-leading 401(k) plan, which includes up to 10% company contributions through our 5% match and 5% profit sharing program (based on employee contributions).\nNew-child leave up to 8 weeks of 100% paid leave upon birth or legal adoption of a new child. Birth mothers are eligible for up to 8 weeks of additional 100% paid medical leave.\nTuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year of eligible tuition and fees.\nCrown Castle scholarship program awarding up to $10,000 per recipient each year for eligible dependent children of employees and interns.\nMatching charitable contributions to qualified charitable organizations of up to $1,000 per year per teammate.\nGenerous paid time-off for eligible full-time employees (minimum 18 days per year based on years of service).\n10 company holidays plus 2 floating holiday.\nAll offices provide free beverages and snacks.\nCompensation\nThe salary range offered for this position is $128,200 - $168,210 annually. A candidate's offer is determined by various factors including but not limited to, depth of experience, role-related knowledge and skills, relevant education or training, internal alignment, and work location. Depending on the position offered, the compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of a discretionary annual cash bonus or commissions, and equity incentives.\nAdditional Information\nPursuant to the Los Angeles County and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.\nIt is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.\nIf you are interested in joining our team, please visit the Crown Castle careers site to apply. We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other third-party suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us. 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