Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Trust
PlayStation Global2 days ago
Base Salary
$216k - $324k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape the architecture and technical roadmap for Data Governance and Trust across engineering, product, domain, and governance stakeholders.
- Lead initiatives from discovery and ambiguous requirements through design, implementation, adoption, and ongoing operation.
- Design and build services, integrations, APIs, and automation connecting metadata, ownership, classification, lineage, quality signals, and policy information.
- Establish reusable governance and trust patterns for data publishing, discovery, access, consumption, change, and retirement.
- Remain hands-on through prototypes, production code, design reviews, and resolution of complex technical problems.
- Represent the group in architecture discussions, planning forums, domain engagements, and leadership reviews.
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions, resolve competing priorities, document decisions, and secure clear ownership and commitments.
- Translate governance, security, and privacy requirements into implementable controls and traceable operational evidence.
- Help teams define data contracts, quality expectations, ownership responsibilities, lifecycle practices, and remediation workflows.
- Develop supported interfaces that expose business meaning, provenance, quality status, and permitted-use information to applications and AI systems.
- Mentor engineers and raise standards for reliability, maintainability, testing, observability, documentation, and technical leadership.
Requirements
- Track record of designing, building, and operating production software or data platforms with impact across multiple teams.
- Deep practical knowledge of metadata management, data governance, lineage, data quality, privacy engineering, access controls, or related platform domains.
- Hands-on experience building or extending metadata and catalog platforms such as Atlan, Alation, DataHub, OpenMetadata, or comparable systems.
- Understanding of federated ownership models, data stewardship, semantic models, business glossaries, or certified metrics.
- Experience across warehouse, lakehouse, streaming, and data transformation environments.
- Demonstrated delivery of data contracts, automated lineage, quality checks, or policy as code.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business or policy requirements into clear technical designs and delivered outcomes.
- Proven ability to lead initiatives across teams without direct reporting authority and navigate difficult technical or organizational conversations.
- Strong written and verbal communication, including architecture proposals, decision documents, and presentations for varied audiences.
- Commitment to mentoring engineers and improving team effectiveness.
- Valuable software engineering skills in Python, Java, or Go, plus practical SQL experience.
- Valuable experience with distributed systems, APIs, integrations, cloud data infrastructure, operational evidence, governed data or context services, and platform adoption or migration.
- Experience representing technical work through internal forums, technical writing, communities of practice, or external presentations is valuable.
Benefits
- Top-tier benefits package including medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program, and Sony product discounts.
- May be eligible for a bonus package.
- Hybrid working policy applies, and base pay may vary based on location and job-related factors.
- Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.