Lead Data Governance Engineer

Canonical
Full-time Nairobi, Nairobi County Other-General
Posted:
March 02, 2026
Location:
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

Job Description

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder led, profitable and growing.
We are hiring a Lead Data Governance Engineer with focus on data governance policies, processes, standards, and monitoring in compliance with internal policies and applicable regulatory frameworks, e.g., GDPR, DPA, ISO, etc. A successful candidate will develop Python-based toolin...

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Posted: March 02, 2026
Deadline: April 11, 2026