Data Governance

Frequently asked questions

• What is Data Governance and how common is it in AI job postings?

  Data Governance is a skill in the "Data Engineering" category. It currently appears in 399 active AI roles across 84 companies in our index.

• Which companies are hiring for Data Governance?

  The top employers with active AI roles mentioning Data Governance are: Capital One (75), JPMorgan Chase (28), Amazon (25), Elastic (20), Google (17).

• Is demand for Data Governance growing?

  Over the last 12 weeks, 297 new AI postings mentioned Data Governance. Demand is rising — up 188% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

• At which stage of AI development is Data Governance used?

  Roles requiring Data Governance are concentrated in: agents (56%), serving infrastructure (22%), application (10%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

• What skills are commonly paired with Data Governance?

  Job postings that mention Data Governance most often also require: Agentic Systems, Observability, Content Generation, Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning.