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Lead, Data Governance

Other • Lead • Remote • Full-time European Union EU/EMEA

Alpaca is looking for a Lead, Data Governance to help build and run its data governance and data security program across the lakehouse, analytics tools and internal data products.

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

Independent work as an individual contributor with no direct reportsCollaboration with Security, Data Engineering and Data Science teamsKeeping pace with partner and regulatory expectations

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.

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