Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain enterprise data governance strategies, policies, and standards aligned with business goals.
- Manage Microsoft Purview accounts, collections, and RBAC; optimize for large-scale environments (50TB+).
- Design metadata repositories and maintain business glossaries and data dictionaries.
- Implement ingestion workflows via ADF, REST APIs, PowerShell, and Azure Functions.
- Define classification rules and sensitivity labels (PII, PCI, PHI); integrate with MIP, DLP, and Insider Risk Management.
- Define KPIs and dashboards to monitor data quality across domains.
- Maintain business glossary with domain owners and stewards; enforce approval workflows.
- Automate governance processes using PowerShell, Azure Functions, and Logic Apps.
- Set up dashboards for audit logs, compliance reporting, and metadata coverage.
- Collaborate across business, IT, legal, and compliance teams for role alignment.

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in data governance and data management with at least the recent 3+ years of exposure in Microsoft Purview.
- Experience defining, leading, and operationalizing an enterprise data governance framework - strategy, policies, and standards aligned to business goals and regulatory compliance.




- Proficient in Microsoft Purview - accounts, collections, RBAC, classification/labelling, DLP, Unified Catalog, Data Map, eDiscovery, Compliance Manager, and lifecycle/records management (ideally at large scale, 50TB+).
- Strong in metadata management, lineage mapping (e.g. ADF - Synapse - Power BI), data classification, and security governance (PII/PCI/PHI, sensitivity labels, MIP/DLP).
- Experience with data governance tools such as Informatica (Axon), Collibra, Atlan, or IBM IG Catalog.
- Experience integrating governance with the Azure data stack (Data Lake, Synapse, SQL DB, Power BI) and Snowflake, and automating via ADF, REST APIs, PowerShell, Azure Functions / Logic Apps.
- Experience defining data quality KPIs/dashboards, remediation workflows, and business glossary/stewardship (domain owners, approval workflows, metadata audits).
- Solid knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and SOX compliance requirements.
- Ability to bridge technical governance with business and compliance goals, collaborating across business, IT, legal, and compliance teams, and driving governance training and change management.

📌 Data Governance Lead - Microsoft Purview (India)
🏢 HR Works Consultancy
📍 India