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Staff Software Engineer, Data Governance & Trust

San Mateo, CA

About the role

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help shape and deliver the technical foundation for Data Governance and Trust across our data and AI ecosystem.

Our ambition is to make data understandable, reliable, reusable, and appropriately governed for the people, applications, and AI systems that depend on it. Achieving this requires shared platform capabilities, clear ownership, and governance practices embedded into how teams build and operate data products.

In this role, you will establish technical direction, lead initiatives across teams, and remain hands-on in architecture and implementation. You will connect metadata, lineage, data quality, semantic context, and policy controls into practical capabilities that help teams use data with confidence.

You will also be a trusted technical representative for the Data Governance and Trust group. We are looking for someone who can lead productive discussions, explain complex tradeoffs, navigate difficult conversations, and build alignment across engineering, business, governance, security, and privacy stakeholders.

This is an individual contributor leadership role with impact across teams.

What you will do

Set technical direction and deliver shared capabilities

Shape the architecture and technical roadmap for Data Governance and Trust in partnership with engineering leadership, product partners, domain teams, and governance stakeholders.
Lead initiatives from discovery and ambiguous requirements through design, implementation, adoption, and ongoing operation.
Design and build services, integrations, APIs, and automation that connect metadata, ownership, classification, lineage, quality signals, and policy information across the data ecosystem.
Establish reusable engineering patterns that embed trust requirements into data publishing, discovery, access, consumption, change, and retirement.
Stay hands-on through prototypes, production code, design reviews, and the resolution of complex technical problems.

Lead conversations and build alignment

Serve as a technical spokesperson for the group in architecture discussions, planning forums, domain engagements, and leadership reviews.
Facilitate discussions among stakeholders with different priorities, surface disagreements constructively, and guide decisions toward clear outcomes.
Explain technical choices, business implications, risks, and costs to both engineering and nontechnical audiences.
Challenge assumptions respectfully, incorporate feedback, and help teams reach workable agreements on standards, ownership, and implementation.
Document decisions, clarify responsibilities and dependencies, and follow through on commitments across teams.
Build relationships that enable adoption through credibility, collaboration, and influence.

Make governance practical and sustainable

Partner with governance, security, privacy, and domain stakeholders to translate agreed requirements into implementable controls and traceable evidence.
Help domain teams define data contracts, quality expectations, ownership responsibilities, and lifecycle practices supported by shared platform capabilities.
Connect quality and reliability signals to accountable owners, consumer communications, and remediation workflows.