Overview
On Site
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
25% Travel
Skills
kafka
platform architecture
data engineering
NiFi
Java microservices
Job Details
Job Title: Data Governance Tech Lead Enterprise Data Platforms
Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract (W2)
Department: Data Engineering
Location: Bethesda, MD (Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract (W2)
Department: Data Engineering
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement data governance frameworks and policies
- Design, build, and modernize secure, scalable data platforms (Kafka, Confluent, NiFi, Java microservices)
- Ensure compliance (GDPR, CCPA) and integrate governance tools
- Lead team onboarding, enablement, and technical guidance
- Define and support SLAs, SLOs; automate ops and manage CI/CD (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins)
- Deploy monitoring and security (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, RBAC, Ranger, TLS, OAuth, Kerberos)
- Integrate platform with enterprise tools (Git, JIRA, Vault, Snowflake, Databricks, Hive, ServiceNow)
- Partner with architects to align data platform with enterprise IT strategy
Requirements
- 10+ years in data engineering, platform architecture, or DevOps
- Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Expertise: Kafka, Confluent, NiFi, Java microservices, cloud-native architectures
- Strong data governance and compliance experience
- Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, monitoring/observability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Certifications: Confluent, Cloudera, AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Azure, Kubernetes
- Stream processing experience (ksqlDB, Kafka Streams, Flink)
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