Informatica & Cloud Data Governance Engineer (IDMC/CDGC)

Informatica & Cloud Data Governance Engineer (IDMC/CDGC)

Location: Portsmouth NH, Boston MA, Indianapolis IN, Plano TX Hybrid

Duration: 12 Months+

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master s degree in technical or business discipline or equivalent experience; technical degree preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years of Data Governance Engineering experience, including consulting on highly complex initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with Informatica IDMC Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) or comparable industry data governance/catalog tooling (data discovery/catalog, glossary/metadata management, classification, lineage enablement, governance workflows).
• Experience establishing and operationalizing data governance standards, policies, best practices, procedures, governance controls, and quality assurance (e.g., stewardship/ownership patterns, metadata standards, data quality expectations and monitoring, auditability).
• Proficient in data engineering languages and tools, including Python and SQL; knowledgeable in new and emerging technologies.
• Understanding of code management practices and CI/CD (e.g., GitHub) and experience working in agile delivery models.
• Strong understanding of layered solutions and designs, including security considerations.
• Highly developed negotiation, consensus building & influencing skills and adaptability to respond to change quickly.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills; proven ability to collaborate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Uses GenAI to improve day-to-day engineering effectiveness (e.g., accelerating research, troubleshooting, documentation, test creation, and routine code tasks) while following security and responsible-use guidelines.
• Acts as an advocate for GenAI-enabled governance, identifying and driving practical use cases where GenAI can accelerate enterprise outcomes (e.g., improving data discovery and usability, assisting with metadata and glossary enrichment, supporting classification recommendations, and scaling stewardship workflows).

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience with AWS core services (CloudFormation, S3, EC2, Lambda).
• Understanding of API design concepts and best practices.
• Familiarity with using data governance as part of data access controls (e.g., governed datasets, policy/attribute-based controls concepts, request/approval/audit workflows, privacy-driven access patterns).
• Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms.
• Experience applying GenAI/LLM capabilities to engineering and/or data governance use cases (e.g., prompt engineering, evaluation/quality approaches, workflow integration, and governance/security considerations for enterprise adoption).