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Lead Data Governance Engineer - Canonical - Remote - EMEA

Data Governance Engineer

Posted: April 21, 2026
Posted 85 days ago
Last seen in crawl: July 13, 2026 (2d ago)
Estimated Expiry: May 26, 2026
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Job Description

Canonical offers a distributed workplace for exceptional colleagues who are self-motivated and organized. The role involves defining, monitoring, and executing data governance policies, designing and maintaining automation tooling for data mesh operations, and working with open-source tools like Trino and Ranger. The position is remote within the EMEA region, with occasional international travel. Candidates should have a strong academic background, experience in data quality, governance, security, and software development in Python and SQL. Nice-to-have skills include performance engineering and experience with tools like Airbyte and Superset. Canonical provides a flexible, distributed work environment, annual salary reviews, a learning budget, and travel opportunities.

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Canonical appears in 209 indexed job postings in JobCrawls' Finland dataset since October 2023. In that historical index, the strongest location signals for this employer are Remote - Global, Remote - EMEA, and Remote - Worldwide.

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