Join to apply for the Lead Data Governance Engineer role at Canonical .Canonical is a leading provider of open‐source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office‐based roles. The company is founder‐led, profitable and growing.We are hiring a Lead Data Governance Engineer with focus on data governance policies, processes, standards, and monitoring in compliance with internal policies and applicable regulatory frameworks (e.G., A successful candidate will develop Python‐based tooling to automate the operations of an internal data mesh solution such as data labeling and quality metrics in a data, access management and data security best practices.The Data Governance team in the Commercial Systems unit has a mission to enable a secure and well‐governed access to comprehensive data sets originating at many internal and external data sources formed in a data mesh. The team works with well‐known open‐source data governance tools such as Trino and Ranger, defines and executes data governance processes, and democratizes the data at Canonical.Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.Define, monitor, and execute data governance policies.Design, implement, and maintain tooling for automated data mesh operations.Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about an alternative chosen path.Experience with data quality, governance, and security processes and tools.Experience with software development in Python and SQL.Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills.Performance engineering and security experience.Experience with Airbyte, Ranger, Superset, Temporal, or Trino.Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.Annual holiday leave.