Principal Data Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $200k / year

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Bixal

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2001

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Marketing • Logistics • Healthcare

Bixal is a mission-driven digital services firm that partners with governments and leading organizations to design and deliver data-driven, human-centered digital transformations. The company combines technology, communications, data, and design to build digital customer experiences, modern software solutions, and training/technical assistance that improve public-sector outcomes and organizational impact.

📋 Description

• Own execution of the data strategy for a large-scale enterprise data platform • Coordinate across upstream source-system teams and business data owners, managing handoffs, ingestion readiness, and shared metadata standards • Lead the data supply chain, including source onboarding, ingestion, and transformation • Drive a multi-phase metadata maturity program • Govern promotion of data through raw, source, and trusted catalog layers • Set and maintain data quality standards for completeness, conformance, freshness against SLAs, and defect/rework tracking • Partner with engineering, product, and AI/platform teams to support self-service analytics and AI use cases • Establish and track data quality, metadata coverage, and promotion/certification cycle-time measures • Communicate data strategy progress, risks, and dependencies to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including client leadership • Participate in Agile/SAFe planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives • Perform other relevant duties as qualified and trained

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field • At least 12 years of related experience • Strong track record coordinating multiple stakeholder teams and data owners in complex, multi-system environments • Experience owning or leading data strategy for a large, multi-source enterprise data platform • Experience designing and operating metadata governance or maturity programs, including cataloging, ownership models, and promotion/certification criteria • Experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, or similar • Experience with metadata/catalog tools such as Unity Catalog, Collibra, Alation, AWS Glue Data Catalog, or Microsoft Purview • Experience defining and enforcing data quality standards, including completeness, conformance, freshness, and defect tracking • Working knowledge of distributed data processing concepts and SQL, Python, or Scala • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Professional certification in a cloud or data platform, data governance, or Agile delivery • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance • Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. • Must obtain a U.S. Federal Government client badge • Bixal does not sponsor employment visas or assume sponsorship of existing employment visas

🏖️ Benefits

• Flex hours • 401K with matching incentive • Parental Leave • Medical/dental/vision benefits • Flex Spending Account • Company provided short-term disability and life insurance • Commuter benefits • Paid Time Off (PTO) • 11 Paid holidays • Reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive employment benefits and privileges