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.

Ideal Candidate:

- Strong Data Governance Lead Profile with deep Microsoft Purview and enterprise governance expertise.

- 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.

- Proficient in Microsoft Purview (accounts, collections, RBAC, classification/labelling, DLP, Unified Catalog, Data Map, eDiscovery, Compliance Manager).

- Strong in metadata management, lineage mapping (ADF, Synapse, Power BI), data classification, and security governance.

- 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.

- Strong knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and SOX compliance requirements.

- Ability to bridge technical governance with business and compliance goals.

Additional Information:

- Full-time employment.

- Kanerika is located in Austin (USA), Singapore, Hyderabad, Indore, and Ahmedabad (India).

- Company rated 4.6/5 on Glassdoor.

- CMMI Level 3 certified, ISO 27701, 27001, SOC2, and GDPR compliant.