Data Governance Engineer

The job

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Job description

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions - from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.

Job Summary:

The Data Governance Engineer is part of our Data Trust & Enablement team within the Enterprise Data Platform. This role is central to how we build confidence in our data - across the teams that produce it, the systems that move it, and the stakeholders who depend on it. This position supports the architecture and execution of our enterprise data quality framework, bringing engineering rigor and automation to problems that today rely too heavily on manual discovery and reactive fixes. This role works alongside data engineers, architects, platform engineers, analysts, and governance leads to make data trust a first-class property of how we build and operate our data platform. This is not a documentation-only or policy role. It is an engineering role on a team that believes governance should be automated, observable, and embedded in the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Help architect and build the foundational framework that defines what trusted data means at Surescripts across dimensions of completeness, accuracy, freshness, consistency, and fitness for purpose.
• Translate abstract data quality concepts into concrete, measurable, automatable rules that can be applied at scale across the medallion architecture.
• Develop and maintain data contracts between producing and consuming teams, with tooling that catches violations before they reach downstream systems.
• Integrate governance checks into developer workflows so that quality and compliance are default behaviors, not afterthoughts.
• Contribute to and extend our metadata platform (data catalog, lineage, tagging) to support discoverability, trust scoring, and impact analysis.
• Help design and implement the automated pathway through which a data asset moves from unvalidated to certified, including rule execution, scoring, threshold management, and integration with Collibra for catalog-level certification status.
• Make certification a first-class part of the data product delivery lifecycle.
• Coach teams on trust and governance standards and help them instrument their pipelines.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on governance best practices for data engineers, analysts, and product teams. Advocate for and implement a "trust by design" principle across the platform engineering and data product development workflows.
• Help define the organization-wide vocabulary and standards for data trust: what a critical data element is, what certification means, what the difference is between a validated asset and a trusted one.
• Partner with the Trust and Enablement leadership to ensure standards are enforced in Collibra and visible to business stakeholders.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, business administration, or related field
• 2+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform development, or a closely related field with a demonstrated focus on data reliability and observability.
• Prior experience with Collibra data quality, Monte Carlo, Great Expectations, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing data validation frameworks, quality rule engines, or observability pipelines, ideally in a cloud-native environment.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with Big Query or a comparable cloud data warehouse at scale.
• Experience integrating data trust or quality metadata into a data catalog-Collibra experience is a strong plus.
• A platform engineering mindset - focus on systems, frameworks, and reusable patterns, not one-off fixes.

• Ability to communicate trust concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders, including governance teams, product owners, and business leaders.

• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, financial services, or another regulated industry with HIPAA or similar compliance requirements is a plus.
• Experience implementing platform capabilities supporting synthetic data, data observability, metadata management, and data trust frameworks

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The unemployment rate was 4.1% in 2026M09, which is 31st lowest of 51 (1st is the lowest). Employers had job openings equal to 3.3% of employment, 46th highest of 51, a measure of how hard it is to hire. The median wage across all occupations is $59,800 a year ($28.75 an hour), 17% above the national median ($59,800 against $50,980).

What people do and what it pays

The occupations with the most jobs in Colorado are Fast Food and Counter Workers (82,010 jobs, median $36,270); Retail Salespersons (76,660 jobs, median $37,950); Stockers and Order Fillers (55,520 jobs, median $42,350); Registered Nurses (54,490 jobs, median $100,260); Cashiers (51,670 jobs, median $36,870). Among occupations with at least 2,000 jobs, the best paid are Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers (median $307,490); Family Medicine Physicians (median $265,560); Computer and Information Systems Managers (median $199,420). Compared with the nation, the state is most specialised in architecture and engineering (1.5 times the national share of workers) and computer and mathematical (1.4 times the national share of workers).

Cost of living, taxes and workplace rules

Prices are above the national average in Colorado: the regional price parity is 103.1 against 100 for the whole country (39th lowest of 51). Median gross rent is $1,761 a month and the median household income $95,470, so a year of rent equals 22.1% of income; the median home value is $539,400. The state minimum wage is $15.16 (the higher of state and federal rates applies to most workers). State income tax on wages: Flat 4.40%. It is not a right-to-work state, so union contracts can require fees from covered workers. It runs a state paid family and medical leave programme.

People and commuting

9.8% of residents were born abroad and 45.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Among workers, 65.1% drive alone, 1.6% use public transit and 21.0% work from home; 14.1% commute 45 minutes or more.

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