Job Description
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
This role is located at the GM Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.
The Enterprise Data Governance Office is seeking an early careers Data Governance Engineer to help expand data literacy, data stewardship growth, governance enablement, and community engagement across General Motors. This entry-level role combines technical learning with business and process support. The Data Governance Engineer will help make governance concepts, learning resources, onboarding steps, and practical guidance easier to understand, find, and apply across technical and business audiences.
Working under the guidance of experienced data governance and data literacy team members, the Data Governance Engineer will support steward onboarding, community growth, training coordination, communications, learning-path development, documentation, reporting, stakeholder follow-up, and measurement. This is an opportunity to gain practical experience in enterprise data governance, data literacy, data stewardship, change enablement, and cross-functional program execution.
The Role
At General Motors, data literacy helps employees understand, question, and responsibly use data and artificial intelligence to make informed decisions. Data stewardship helps ensure that data has clear ownership, useful metadata, appropriate classification, measurable quality, and accountable support across its lifecycle. The Data Governance &
Data Literacy team supports these outcomes through role-based learning, steward onboarding, data transfer documentation/tracking, hands-on workshops, enterprise events, communications, community meetings, reusable job aids, reporting, and governance enablement.
The Data Governance Engineer will contribute to the operating work that turns these activities into a repeatable capability. The role is well suited for a student who enjoys connecting technology, business needs, and practical processes; communicating with different audiences; organizing work; using metrics to understand participation and adoption; and learning how governed data is used across a large enterprise.
What You’ll Do
• Coordinate data literacy events, workshops, office hours, community meetings, and learning campaigns, including calendars, registrations, materials, attendance, and follow-up.
• Help grow the Data Stewardship community by supporting invitations, agendas, discussion topics, feedback collection, recaps, and approved collaboration channels.
• Support Data Steward onboarding, including required learning, Atlan onboarding steps, approved access tracking, cataloging activities, office-hours participation, and follow-up actions.
• Assist with intake and triage of data governance, data literacy, and data transfer documentation; route policy, privacy, access, data-quality, and tool-specific questions to the appropriate subject-matter expert.
• Research and organize content on data governance, metadata, ownership, inbound and outbound data exchange documentation/tracking, stewardship, data quality, responsible data use and analytics.
• Create and maintain plain-language communications and reusable materials, including FAQs, job aids, onboarding checklists, quick-start guides, presentations,
announcements, learning paths, recordings, and documentation.
• Under supervision, help verify approved metadata such as ownership, descriptions, and classifications.
• Maintain metric definitions, source notes, reporting trackers, and simple dashboard quality checks; prepare status updates, dashboard summaries, community recaps, and…