Hiring: Senior Director, Data Engineering & Governance Company: Fintech Location: Tampa, FL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:14:48 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : ABAC, API Design, API Gateway, Airflow, Apache, Auth0, Azure, CI/CD, ClickHouse, Data Pipeline, Databricks, Delta Lake, Druid, Encryption, Enterprise Architecture, Event-Driven, Feature Store, GDPR, GraphQL, HubSpot, Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, REST, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, SIEM, SOC 2, Salesforce, Spark, TLS, Terraform About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data management, or related technical disciplines •5+ years of direct people management experience leading data engineering or database administration teams •3+ years of hands-on experience building and operationalizing data governance programs •Lakehouse: Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark) •Streaming: Apache Kafka (or Confluent), event-driven architectures Required Skills: •Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers and Database Administrators responsible for Fintech's data infrastructure Qualifications: •Implement governance controls natively within Databricks Unity Catalog—including catalog/schema/table permissions, row/column-level security, and attribute-based access via integration with CRAFT (zero-trust ABAC layer) •Lead metadata management using Open Metadata integrated with Unity Catalog, ensuring comprehensive lineage from source systems through consumption •Maintain the enterprise business glossary with consistent definitions across all 12 product lines •Recruit and coordinate federated Data Stewards and Data Owners across business units •Own the data security posture across the enterprise data platform, partnering with Information Security to implement defense-in-depth controls •Implement and monitor data-at-rest encryption (Azure Storage encryption, Databricks workspace encryption) and data-in-transit encryption (TLS for all data movement) •Establish data masking, tokenization, and anonymization standards for sensitive data elements (PII, PCI, financial data) •Configure and maintain Unity Catalog audit logging and system tables for comprehensive data access monitoring •Define and enforce least-privilege access models across all data platforms, integrating with Auth0 identity and OPA policy enforcement •Lead data security incident response procedures, including breach investigation, impact assessment, and remediation Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!