Lead, Data Governance

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Build and maintain data governance policies, classification standards, ownership model and exception process, in line with Security and Privacy requirements
• ▹Own data access governance for the lakehouse and analytics stack, including entitlement standards, periodic access reviews, and least-privilege access across Trino, Ranger, Cube and Metabase
• ▹Work with Data Engineering on the technical side of controls such as Ranger policies, schema restrictions and service account management
• ▹Set data quality standards and help Data teams track and improve against them
• ▹Keep the data inventory, metadata and lineage documentation current for compliance and audit purposes
• ▹Review data-related vendors and new use cases, such as analytics platforms, reverse ETL, AI query tools and notebooks
• ▹Reporting line: Chief Information & Security Officer (CISO), working closely with Data Engineering and Data Science

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Fully remote team

About the company

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income and 24/5 trading. Its global team of 400+ members spans the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK and beyond, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with institutional-grade APIs, totalling over 10 million brokerage accounts. Alpaca is backed by $400 million in funding from top-tier global investors including Y Combinator.