Senior Software Engineer, Data Governance
AI summary of the role
Hands-on engineering role building data governance automation, trust signals, and quality frameworks at fintech scale to enable reliable decision-making and AI applications.
What you’ll do
- Build trust scorecards, signals, and quality indicators for real-time data reliability visibility
- Own and evolve data quality strategy with frameworks and monitoring systems
- Develop governance policies for classification, quality, lifecycle, and SOX compliance
- Automate governance processes including metadata, lineage, and access controls
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years in data engineering or governance with hands-on classification, cataloging, quality
- Experience building data trust signals and quality scorecards
- Proficiency in Python and scalable data tooling/automation
- Experience with Snowflake or cloud data warehouses
Technologies
Terraform · Python · Snowflake · data catalog · data lineage · metadata management · SOX compliance · AI tooling
About Chime
Mobile-first consumer fintech offering fee-light checking, savings, credit-building, and on-demand pay products to everyday Americans through partner banks.
Public · 1000–2000 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
About the Role The Data Governance function is pivotal in ensuring the integrity, trustworthiness, and effective management of Chime’s data assets. Our mission is to establish and operationalize data governance frameworks that not only meet compliance requirements, but actively enable high-confidence decision making across the company. As a Data Governance Engineer, you will develop and implement policies and tools for data quality, developer enablement, certified datasets, and governance automation - with a sharp focus on building trust signals and scorecards that help data consumers quickly understand and act on the reliability of Chime's data. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will write production-quality code to build automation for governance and data quality processes using Terraform, Python (or similar languages), and contribute to internal libraries, frameworks, and
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About the Role The Data Governance function is pivotal in ensuring the integrity, trustworthiness, and effective management of Chime’s data assets. Our mission is to establish and operationalize data governance frameworks that not only meet compliance requirements, but actively enable high-confidence decision making across the company. As a Data Governance Engineer, you will develop and implement policies and tools for data quality, developer enablement, certified datasets, and governance automation - with a sharp focus on building trust signals and scorecards that help data consumers quickly understand and act on the reliability of Chime's data. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will write production-quality code to build automation for governance and data quality processes using Terraform, Python (or similar languages), and contribute to internal libraries, frameworks, and orchestration workflows that enable scalable governance. You will partner closely with data engineering, analytics, product engineering, and compliance teams to: Support Chime in data compliance and risk reduction initiatives Establish data quality as a product discipline Build trust signals and scorecards that make data reliability transparent and data context valuable for a variety of use cases Implement governance workflows upstream, where data are created Ensure data context and metadata [... source excerpt omitted ...] nd implementation plans to provide guidance on appropriate development from a data governance and compliance perspective, acting as a trusted advisor to teams innovating at Chime. You will also be a strong advocate and leader for Artificial Intelligence tooling and adoption at Chime, bringing curiosity and a practical eye for where AI creates leverage in data governance workflows. This role is 40% strategic influence, 40% development and building, and 20% stakeholder management and support. The base salary for this role and level of experience will begin at $160,000.00 and go up to $221,000.00. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and be [... source excerpt omitted ...] ion workflows. Champion SOX Compliance: Play an active role in Chime's SOX compliance efforts, ensuring that data governance practices, controls, and audit trails meet regulatory requirements and are well-documented. Lead AI Adoption for Data Governance: Serve as a leader and advocate for AI tooling within the data governance space - identifying opportunities to apply AI to automate governance workflows, improve data context, enhance trust scoring, and accelerate adoption of governance best practices across engineering teams. Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with data engineers, analysts, and compliance officers to align data governance initiatives with business needs and re
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