Data Governance Lead - Microsoft Purview

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). - Strong 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.