Lead, Data Governance
Alpaca is a brokerage infrastructure company providing developer APIs for stocks, options, fixed income, and crypto trading, plus tokenization infrastructure for TradFi–DeFi markets.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
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About Alpaca
Alpaca provides API-first brokerage infrastructure for fintechs, institutions, algorithmic traders, and developers. Its offerings include Broker API, Trading API, market data, self-clearing brokerage services, crypto services, and the Instant Tokenization Network for in-kind minting and redemption of tokenized assets.
Skills
About the Role
Build and operate data governance and security practices across the lakehouse, analytics tools, and internal data products. Define classification, access, ownership, quality, inventory, and lineage standards; review vendors and data use cases; support sensitive and cross-border data requests; prepare audit evidence; track risks; and establish guardrails for AI-enabled data workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years in data governance, data security, GRC, privacy engineering, or a related field
- At least 2 years working with modern data platforms
- Understanding of DAMA-DMBOK, NIST, or similar governance frameworks
- Experience building or operating data classification, access-control, or entitlement-review programs
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms and analytics tooling
- Knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, cross-border transfers, and financial-services privacy requirements
- Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar audits
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- CIPT, CIPM, CISM, CISSP, CDMP, CRISC, or similar certification preferred
- Experience with Trino, Apache Ranger, dbt, Cube, Metabase, Airflow, or Iceberg preferred
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data governance policies, classification standards, ownership models, and exception processes
- Own data access governance for the lakehouse and analytics stack
- Define entitlement standards and periodic access reviews
- Implement least-privilege access across data and analytics tools
- Work with Data Engineering on Ranger policies, schema restrictions, and service-account management
- Set data quality standards and track improvements
- Maintain data inventory, metadata, and lineage documentation
- Review data vendors and new analytics and AI use cases
- Support sensitive and cross-border data requests
- Prepare evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, CSA STAR, partner reviews, and regulatory examinations
- Track data risks and control gaps in the ERM program
- Provide governance guidance on access, classification, and tooling
- Define guardrails for AI and agentic use of corporate data
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health benefits
- New hire home-office setup: one-time USD $500
- Monthly stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card