Data Governance Coordinator

Yoh has an exciting contract opportunity for a Data Governance Coordinator to support a leading advanced technology organization in San Diego, CA. This role will help drive day-to-day data governance operations as the organization expands its enterprise data platform. The ideal candidate will have experience coordinating governance activities, maintaining metadata and documentation standards, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure data assets are well-governed in a regulated environment.

See below for abbreviated job responsibilities and requirements.

Title: Data Governance Coordinator
Location: Remote
Compensation: $40.00–$60.00/hr, DOE
Type: Contract
Eligibility: Must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder (ITAR / CUI environment)

• Maintain and manage the organization's KPI and metric registry, ensuring definitions, ownership, approvals, and supporting metadata remain accurate and up to date.
• Coordinate with business and technical stakeholders to identify data owners, stewards, and approvers for key datasets and business metrics.
• Track governance workflows and approval progress, escalating issues that could impact project timelines or data ownership.
• Maintain governance documentation, ensuring metadata, business glossaries, and data catalogs accurately reflect production data assets.
• Support metadata management by validating table and column descriptions, ownership information, classifications, and data lineage.
• Ensure governance documentation remains aligned with assets being onboarded into the enterprise data platform.
• Monitor governance metrics related to data ownership, lineage, documentation completeness, and classification to support audits and operational reporting.
• Coordinate governance meetings, action items, stakeholder communications, and follow-up activities across multiple teams.
• Recommend process improvements that streamline governance workflows, documentation standards, and cross-functional coordination.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• 2+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management, data stewardship, data quality, analytics program coordination, or a related field.
• Strong organizational and project coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across cross-functional teams.
• Working knowledge of data governance principles, including metadata management, data lineage, stewardship, classification, and access controls.
• Familiarity with Databricks, Unity Catalog, or similar modern data governance and catalog platforms.
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills with experience maintaining governance artifacts, trackers, and operational documentation.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with changing priorities.
• Experience supporting governance activities within regulated or security-sensitive organizations is preferred.
• Experience with governance platforms such as Collibra, Atlan, or Alation is a plus.
• Prior experience supporting enterprise data platform implementations or governance program rollouts is preferred.
• Experience with in defense, aerospace, healthcare, financial services, or another regulated industry is a plus.

Estimated Min Rate
: $31.50

Estimated Max Rate
: $45.00

Benefits include:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Met Life Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and train