Data Governance Lead - IT/Software Services

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 - 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Experience in B2B Tech/Consulting/B2B Software environments.