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Which roles ask for Data Governance at tech companies · 45 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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45 roles counted that list Data Governance, one per company, title and level; 122 postings in the window.

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In short

Data Governance: listed in 45 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 22 and preferred in 23. The largest group is data engineer roles: 18 of 45.

Required
22 of 45
Of the roles that list Data Governance
Preferred
23 of 45
Of the roles that list Data Governance
Largest group
18 of 45
Data engineer

Roles that ask for Data Governance

Roles listing Data Governance, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Data engineer1818 of 99
Software engineer1111 of 719
Analytics engineer44 of 28
Data architect44 of 11
AI engineer22 of 70
Data analyst22 of 47
Data scientist22 of 112
Forward deployed engineer11 of 63
Platform engineer11 of 57

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 45 Data Governance roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Python
35 of 45
SQL
29 of 45
Data Modeling
19 of 45
AWS
15 of 45
Spark
12 of 45
CI/CD
11 of 45
Data Warehousing
11 of 45
Azure
9 of 45
Data Infrastructure
9 of 45
Data Pipelines
9 of 45
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
Data Warehousing
7 of 45
GCP
7 of 45
LLMs
7 of 45
AWS
6 of 45
Azure
6 of 45
Data Modeling
6 of 45
Identity and Access Management
6 of 45
Machine Learning
6 of 45
Power BI
6 of 45
Data Quality
5 of 45

Experience

Of the 21 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
21 of 21
2+ years
21 of 21
3+ years
19 of 21
5+ years
15 of 21
8+ years
3 of 21
10+ years
0 of 21

Degree

Of the 31 roles we could read for it

Required
2 of 31
Required, or experience instead
9 of 31
Preferred
2 of 31
Not mentioned
18 of 31

Pay and remote work

Of the 45 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
24 of 45
Remote roles
30 of 45

How we count: 45 roles from 42 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology