Leads enterprise data governance strategy, data quality standards, stewardship models, policies, metadata, lineage, classification, access controls, and lifecycle management. Partners with business and technical teams to resolve data quality issues, implement governance platforms, monitor KPIs, communicate risks, and maintain compliance with regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR.

Design, build, and optimize scalable ELT pipelines into BigQuery, create dbt models and data models, implement data quality, observability, CI/CD, and IaC practices, and partner with stakeholders to deliver trusted enterprise data products.

Lead and scale a data engineering team to build and maintain BigQuery-based ELT pipelines and Medallion architecture. Provide technical direction, hands-on engineering (dbt, Python, Fivetran), enforce governance, data quality, observability, CI/CD and IaC standards, and partner with platform and business domains to deliver a reliable data platform.