Data Quality & Governance specialist

RemoFirst empowers employers to be free from geographical boundaries when accessing talent, allowing employees to pursue opportunities wherever they may exist. We are on a mission to be the FIRST to revolutionise the industry and be a truly generational company.

Our platform offers a full range of people management tools, employee benefits like health insurance, and financial benefits, enabling clients to hire anyone from anywhere with one click. RemoFirst manages employees and contractors for Fortune 500 companies (e.g., Microsoft, Mastercard) and the best startups worldwide (e.g., TransferGo).

We are one of the fastest-growing private companies in the USA, recently at 85th position on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in 2025. Backed by $40+M in venture funding, we are scaling rapidly and investing heavily in AI-driven solutions to supercharge our operations.

As a Data Quality & Governance specialist , you will own the DQ program and act as a bridge between Data and Business teams

Responsibilities:

Data Quality

Own the end-to-end Data Quality program: SLAs, monitoring, testing, issue resolution and continuous improvement.

Drive requirements gathering with business and data teams to define and document technical and business data quality rules.

Build and maintain dbt-based Data Quality tests across the medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold layers).

Build DQ dashboards and lead root-cause analysis to improve trust in data.

Data Governance

Build and maintain the enterprise data catalog and business glossary, ensuring metadata, ownership, lineage, and business definitions remain accurate, documented, and discoverable.

Partner with domain teams to capture institutional knowledge and translate business context into shared metadata, glossary definitions, classifications, and governed semantic context.

Enable trusted and reusable data foundations for analytics and AI use cases by improving discoverability, context, and governance of data assets.

Support governance and compliance practices for sensitive and regulated data.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Act as the bridge between Data and Business teams on definitions, ownership, trust, and governance decisions.

Facilitate workshops with domain owners to define business rules and data contracts.

Drive data discoverability and become the trusted point of contact for data meaning and reliability.

What you’ll need:

3+ years in Data Quality, Governance.

Hands-on experience running Data Quality and Data Governance initiatives in production.

Strong DBT and SQL skills.

Experience with data cataloging tools like OpenMetadata, DataHub, Collibra, or similar.

Experience building DQ dashboards and communicating with business stakeholde