# Lead Data Governance Engineer

Job Description Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Lead Data Governance Engineer to join our ever-evolving Data Products team and help shape the future of global commerce. You’ll ensure the data powering analytical, decisioning, optimization and commercial products is accurate, complete, well understood and fit for purpose. What you’ll own Assess the quality and fitness for purpose of data used in new and existing products, establishing acceptance criteria and thresholds based on product requirements and business criticality. Build repeatable profiling, reconciliation and monitoring controls across critical datasets, including fill rates, null rates, volumes, ranges, distributions, schema changes and other material quality measures. Investigate complex data anomalies and discrepancies, identify root causes across source systems, ingestion, transformation, business logic and downstream consumption, and partner with accountable teams on remediation. Define semantic expectations, data contracts, automated alerts and tolerances for critical product inputs, documenting definitions, dependencies, assumptions, l

- **Id**: 3775484
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/global-payments-lead-data-governance-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cincinnati, United States, Atlanta, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T23:11:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T13:33:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4409
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: POS Systems, Cards & Card Issuing, Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 2520
- **Name**: Global Payments
- **Domain**: globalpayments.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/globaltech-poland-sp-z-o-o>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 86
- **Ghost share**: 0.035
- **Stale share**: 0.151
- **Repost share**: 0.128
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 22
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: yes
- **Snowflake** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T23:11:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1 · green card filings: 5; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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