Data Governance Architect

As the Data Governance Specialist, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining enterprise-wide data governance strategies, standards, and policies. Your role will involve aligning governance practices with business objectives such as regulatory compliance and analytics readiness. You will play a key part in defining roles and responsibilities within the governance operating model, driving governance maturity assessments, and leading change management initiatives. Collaboration will be a crucial aspect of your position, as you will work across IT, legal, business, and compliance teams to ensure alignment on governance priorities. You will be tasked with defining stewardship models, creating enablement programs, conducting training sessions, and developing communication programs to promote governance awareness within the organization. In terms of architecture design for data governance platforms, you will be responsible for designing scalable and modular data governance architecture. Your expertise will be utilized to evaluate tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, BigID, and Informatica, ensuring seamless integration with metadata, privacy, quality, and policy systems. A key focus of your role will be on Microsoft Purview solution architecture. You will lead the end-to-end implementation and management of Microsoft Purview, configuring RBAC, collections, metadata scanning, business glossary, and classification rules. Additionally, you will implement sensitivity labels, insider risk controls, retention policies, data mapping, and audit dashboards. Your responsibilities will also include architecting metadata repositories and ingestion workflows, ensuring end-to-end lineage (ADF, Synapse, Power BI), and defining governance over business glossary and approval workflows. Your expertise in metadata, lineage, and glossary management will be essential in maintaining data integrity and accessibility within the organization.,