Lead Data Governance Engineer (Payments)

Location: Hybrid in Cincinnati, Ohio or Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Company

hirify.global provides payment and commerce technologies supporting global financial products and services.

What you will do

• Assess data quality and fitness for purpose across analytical, decisioning, optimization, and commercial products.
• Establish acceptance criteria, thresholds, profiling, reconciliation, and monitoring controls for critical datasets.
• Investigate complex data anomalies across source systems, ingestion, transformation, business logic, and downstream consumption.
• Define semantic expectations, data contracts, automated alerts, tolerances, definitions, dependencies, assumptions, limitations, and appropriate uses.
• Communicate data risks and their product, operational, business, and client impact while recommending systemic improvements.
• Partner with Product, Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Governance, and business subject-matter experts throughout the product development lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data analytics, data quality, data engineering, or a related discipline, with the ability to operate independently as a senior individual contributor.
• Advanced SQL skills and demonstrated success profiling, reconciling, and investigating large, complex datasets.
• Experience defining data-quality rules, thresholds, controls, and monitoring, including anomaly investigation and root-cause analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical data issues into clear product, business, operational, and client implications.

Nice to have

• Experience in merchant acquiring, a payment service provider, or a card network environment.
• Experience supporting data-intensive products such as transaction processing, optimization, real-time recommendation systems, or commercial data products.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and modern data architectures, including Snowflake, Databricks, and AWS, as well as data contracts or data-product operating models.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Cincinnati or Atlanta.
• Collaboration across global, inclusive, cross-functional teams.
• Equal opportunity employment with reasonable accommodations during hiring and employment.
• Conditional offers for work in the United States require a drug test.