Principal Data Governance Engineer

About Us:
DailyPay, Inc. is transforming the way people get paid. As the industry's leading on-demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America's top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job, while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace.
DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, visit DailyPay's Press Center.
The Role:
The Principal Data Governance (DG) Engineer is passionate about data governance, privacy, and compliance and responsible for enabling a DailyPay's data governance program, including improving existing processes for managing the control and protection of sensitive data and information assets. The Principal DG Engineer will focus on ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework including data policies, standards and practices, and compliance with regulatory and contractual security and privacy requirements for critical company data throughout the information lifecycle, coordinates with data stewards to help develop new data-centric systems and services, and maximize the value of data while minimizing risks.
DailyPay is looking for a skilled Principal DG Engineer with hands-on experience and a solid understanding of building and maintaining an enterprise data architecture designed to enhance observability, alerting, reporting, and the development of machine learning (ML) applications and to lead the roadmap for implementation of Data Governance within DailyPay. This role will be instrumental in helping to realize this vision for DailyPay by creating data oversight standards, PII discovery approaches, data quality frameworks, data dictionary and data lineage documentation.
The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership qualities alongside deep technical expertise in data engineering, a passion for data-driven decision making, and a proven track record in optimizing data systems for operational excellence and innovation.
If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.
How You Will Make an Impact:

• The Principal Data Governance (DG) Engineer is passionate about data governance, privacy, and compliance and for enabling data governance programs, including improving existing processes for managing the control and protection of sensitive data and information assets
• The candidate must have strong technical skills for creating complex programs, deep knowledge of data modeling, transformation, storage, ETL/ELT pipeline orchestration, data warehousing, data quality, cloud platforms, version control, and a desire to communicate, collaborate, share, and continuously improve themselves and the team
• Focuses on ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework including data policies, standards and practices, and compliance with regulatory and contractual security and privacy requirements for critical company data throughout the information lifecycle
• Help establish scalable enterprise data governance capabilities including people, processes, and technologies, including building standards, creating data definitions and policies, and training other stakeholders
• Manage the enterprise data governance program, including the business processes within, data profiling, enforcing specific data quality rules, and cataloging data items to ensure proper data lineage is established and maintained
• Oversee the implementation and management of data governance platform technologies, serving as the primary administrator and subject matter expert for the data governance platform
• Understand the enterprise business processes and existing system landscape necessary to enable observability and applied data applications across the enterprise

What You Bring to The Team:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Science, Information Management, or a related discipline
• 10+ years of Data Governance experience within the financial industry (payments, credit cards, banking, etc.)
• Minimum 3+ years of direct experience in data analysis, data governance, data management or data modeling, focused on large-scale project management and oversight, at a mid-sized organization
• In-depth knowledge of industry-standard frameworks and practices for data governance and data quality, including source system profiling tools and methods, writing data quality rules (business facing and
• Knowledge of data architecture, data risk, and technology solutions for data management
• In-depth knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data protection
• Knowledge of data-related regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues, including practical experience with privacy laws such as GLBA,CCPA, GDPR and privacy compliance implementation

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunity for equity ownership
• Private health insurance option
• Employee Resource Groups
• Fun company outings and events
• Generous PTO Allowance
• 5% Pension contribution

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Pay Transparency. DailyPay takes a market-based approach to compensation, which may vary depending on your location. Additionally, this role may be eligible for variable incentive compensation in addition to stock options. Where a candidate fits within the compensation range for a role is based on their demonstrated experience, qualifications, skills and internal equity.
Belfast Compensation Range
£117,000 - £156,000 GBP
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DailyPay is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable culture of belonging, grounded in empathy and respect, which values openness to opinions, awareness of lived experiences, fair treatment and access for all. We strive to build and develop diverse teams to create an organisation where innovation thrives, where the full potential of each person is engaged, and their views, beliefs and values are integrated into our ways of working.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.