Data Governance Engineer III

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the team

Expedia’s Data Management and Governance (EDMG) organization is an enterprise function chartered with enabling and maintaining metadata management, data quality, and data architecture; facilitating a community of data stewards; and providing oversight and monitoring into effectiveness of our capabilities and compliance to standards and regulations. Our goal is to simplify the data landscape by making data easy to discover while protecting the security and integrity of our most valued data assets. We aim to provide practical and scalable solutions that empower data-driven business, moving the innovation and progress of the enterprise forward.

As the Data Governance Engineer, you will lead implementation to enable our Data Governance and Compliance programs. You’ll work to define requirements and business processes as well as engineer and implement controls to manage, govern, and protect our data ensuring we achieve our internal data management and governance standards while complying to various regulations.  This job includes working with our larger EDMG team as well as Compliance, Security, Legal, Privacy, Engineering, and Product teams across the organization.

In this role you will:

• Develop frameworks and implement solutions to manage critical data at-scale ensuring regulatory requirements are adhered to and embedded in data processes; critical data might include business critical, PCI, PII, personal data

• In partnership with Security and data stewards, develop a process to monitor, identify, and remediate data handling concerns

• Work with cross-functional teams to build and integrate Data Governance controls in existing business and technical processes

• Develop mechanisms to gain insight into data access and implement processes to manage data access at-scale

• Build repeatable processes and systems to support Data Governance compliance reporting, including data protection and data privacy insights

• Identify, build, and implement areas of continuous improvement and automation in data governance space

• Contribute to a culture innovation and trust by evangelizing and adopting best practices with well-defined goals and metrics

• Foster cross-functional and cross-team collaboration by building trust and relationships with Security, Legal, Privacy, Product and Engineering teams

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science, Computer Engineering, MIS, Data Engineering or a related field

• 5+ years of professional experience in data security and data governance

• A passion for Data Governance combined with strong knowledge of Data Governance principles and best practices

• Experience building and implementing technical frameworks for effective data handling

• Experience in tools such as Collibra, Sentra, or OneTrust is beneficial

• Experience with data security (including PCI, PII data), as well as CCPA and GDPR privacy laws and regulations

• Experience designing, building, and implementing technical solutions to handle data in-line with governance and regulations

• Technical experience in cloud and big data technologies, as well as building scripting and automation solutions

• Excellent communications skills (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams

Accommodation requests

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