The Assistant Manager will bring 6+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, and Modern Data Platforms, with expertise in either Microsoft Fabric & Purview or Azure Databricks & Unity Catalog. The role involves defining and implementing enterprise-wide governance frameworks, establishing metadata management and stewardship practices, and ensuring data quality, lineage, security, compliance, and access governance across the organization's data estate.

Responsibilities

- Define, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, controls, and operating models aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

- Lead metadata management initiatives including data cataloging, business glossary development, data classification, ownership assignment, and stewardship processes.
- Implement and govern end-to-end data lineage, impact analysis, auditability, and observability across modern data platforms.
- Establish and monitor data quality frameworks, controls, scorecards, validation processes, and remediation workflows to improve trust and consistency of enterprise data.
- Drive data security, privacy, retention, compliance, and access governance practices through centralized governance and policy enforcement mechanisms.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, data owners, architects, engineers, platform teams, and compliance functions to operationalize governance across critical data domains.
- Conduct governance maturity assessments, define implementation roadmaps,



and support governance adoption and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support audit, risk, regulatory, and AI-readiness initiatives by ensuring governance controls, metadata visibility, lineage, and policy compliance are consistently enforced.

Qualifications

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain governance concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences.
- •Strong hands-on experience with either:
- Microsoft Purview (Data Catalog, Data Map, Business Glossary, Data Lineage, Data Classification), and Microsoft Fabric Governance, or
- Azure Databricks Unity Catalog, including metadata management, governance, lineage, auditing, and access control capabilities
- Experience implementing enterprise data governance frameworks, stewardship operating models, and governance controls.
- Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, data quality management, compliance reporting, and governance best practices.
- Good understanding of access governance concepts including RBAC, ABAC, row-level security, column-level security, data classification, sensitivity labeling, and regulatory compliance requirements
- Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, Lakehouse architecture, and contemporary cloud data platforms.
- Experience working with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, or equivalent enterprise governance technologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, technology, and governance teams.

📌 Assistant Manager-KDNI (Bengaluru)
🏢 KPMG Delivery Network India 1
📍 Bengaluru