Principal Data Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of implementing the data strategy for a large-scale enterprise data platform.

• Collaborate with upstream source-system teams and business data owners, overseeing handoffs, ingestion readiness, and shared metadata standards.

• Lead the data supply chain process, including source onboarding, ingestion, and transformation.

• Propel a multi-phase metadata maturity initiative.

• Manage the promotion of data through raw, source, and trusted catalog layers.

• Establish and uphold data quality standards regarding completeness, conformance, freshness in line with SLAs, and defect/rework tracking.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, and AI/platform teams to facilitate self-service analytics and AI applications.

• Set and monitor measures for data quality, metadata coverage, and promotion/certification cycle times.

• Report on the progress of data strategy, as well as any risks and dependencies, to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including client leadership.

• Engage in Agile/SAFe planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives.

• Execute other relevant duties as qualified and trained.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant experience.

• Proven ability to coordinate multiple stakeholder teams and data owners in complex, multi-system environments.

• Experience leading or owning data strategy for a large, multi-source enterprise data platform.

• Familiarity with designing and managing metadata governance or maturity programs, including cataloging, ownership models, and promotion/certification criteria.

• Proficient with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, or similar.

• Experience with metadata/catalog tools such as Unity Catalog, Collibra, Alation, AWS Glue Data Catalog, or Microsoft Purview.

• Experience in defining and enforcing data quality standards, including completeness, conformance, freshness, and defect tracking.

• Solid understanding of distributed data processing concepts and proficiency in SQL, Python, or Scala.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Professional certification in a cloud or data platform, data governance, or Agile delivery.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.

• Must obtain a U.S. Federal Government client badge.

• Bixal does not sponsor employment visas or assume sponsorship of existing employment visas.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours.

• 401K with matching contributions.

• Parental Leave.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.

• Flexible Spending Account.

• Company-provided short-term disability and life insurance.

• Commuter benefits.

• Paid Time Off (PTO).

• 11 Paid holidays.

• Reasonable accommodations available to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive employment benefits and privileges.