Position : Data Governance Lead (Microsoft Purview)

Overall/Total Experience : 7 - 15 years only

Location : Hyderabad/Indore/Ahmedabad

Working Days : 5 Days from Office

Notice Period Requirement : 30 Days (Maximum)

Client's Company Size : Mid-Sized

Roles & 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, Azure Functions.

- Define classification rules and sensitivity labels (PII, PCI, PHI); integrate with MIP, DLP, 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, Logic Apps.

- Set up dashboards for audit logs, compliance reporting, and metadata coverage.

- Collaborate across business, IT, legal, and compliance teams for role alignment.

Candidate Requirements :

- Must have 7+ years of experience in data governance and data management with at least the recent 3+ years of exposure in Microsoft Purview.

- Must have experience defining, leading, and operationalizing an enterprise data governance framework - strategy, policies, and standards aligned to business goals and regulatory compliance.

- Must be 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+).

- Must be strong in metadata management, lineage mapping (e.g. ADF - Synapse - Power BI), data classification, and security governance (PII/PCI/PHI, sensitivity labels, MIP/DLP).

- Must have experience with data governance tools such as Informatica (Axon), Collibra, Atlan, or IBM IG Catalog.

- Must have 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.

- Must have experience defining data quality KPIs/dashboards, remediation workflows, and business glossary/stewardship (domain owners, approval workflows, metadata audits).

- Must have strong knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and SOX compliance requirements.