Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services
Position: Data Engineer, Governance
Location: Bellevue WA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- The Engineer,Data Governance is an early-career role for someone who is curious about data how it's organized, understood, and trusted at enterprise scale and wants to develop deep technical expertise across a unique blend of platform administration, data engineering, and automation.
- You'll serve as a hands-on administrator for Client's Data Governance platform ecosystem including Collibra, Ataccama, OpenMetadata, and Securiti.ai while supporting data stewardship activities like metadata collection, data quality, and lineage, and building automations and AI-assisted workflows that help scale governance across the enterprise.
- Platform administration is a core part of this role, not a secondary one.
- You will own day-to-day admin responsibilities across governance tools, develop deep configuration expertise, and be the go-to person for keeping these platforms healthy, well-configured, and aligned with the evolving needs of the governance program.
- This hands-on ownership is paired with engineering work you'll be expected to get into code, dig into systems, and develop fluency with Client's data platforms (Databricks, Unity Catalog, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, DBT) as you grow in the role.
- Deep governance platform experience is not expected on day one; what matters is technical aptitude, data literacy, strong SQL fundamentals, attention to detail, and a genuine desire to become an expert in a domain that sits at the heart of how Client understands and governs its data.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 0 2 years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, data analytics, systems administration, or a related technical discipline including internships and co-ops.
- Demonstrated technical aptitude through coursework, projects, or work experience involving data, SQL, software development, or system administration.
Technical Skills
- Solid SQL proficiency able to write queries to retrieve, filter, join, and aggregate data; experience with stored procedures or complex query patterns is a plus.
- Working Python proficiency comfortable writing scripts for data processing, API calls, and task automation.
- Familiarity with REST API concepts able to read API documentation and make basic authenticated requests.
- Basic understanding of data concepts: schemas, data types, relational databases, ETL/ELT, and cloud data storage.
- Exposure to cloud data platforms (Azure, Databricks, Snowflake) or data transformation tools (DBT) is a plus; willingness to learn these environments hands-on is required.
Must Have Skills
- Solid SQL proficiency for querying and working with data in relational and cloud-native data stores
- Working Python proficiency for scripting, data processing, and automation
- Basic REST API familiarity able to read documentation and make authenticated requests
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills comfortable digging into unfamiliar code, logs, and systems
- Attention to detail and process discipline suitable for platform administration and configuration management
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Hands-on experience with AI productivity tools (Claude and Cursor or similar IDE)
- Genuine curiosity about data governance and willingness to develop deep platform administration and engineering expertise
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Bellevue, WA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $54.29 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- API Documentationunmatched
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Authenticationunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Cisco Unityunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Cloud Storageunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Configuration Managementunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Data Processingunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Data Storageunmatched
- Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Ecosystemsunmatched
- Home Automationunmatched
- IDE (Integrated Development Environment)unmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Literacyunmatched
- Metadataunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
- Relational Databases (RDBMS)unmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Snowflake Schemaunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Stewardshipunmatched
- Stored Proceduresunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Transformation Toolsunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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