Data Governance Lead - MS Fabric

What You Will Do:

As a Data Governance Lead at Kanerika, you will be responsible for defining, leading, and operationalizing the data governance framework, ensuring enterprise-wide alignment and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Governance Strategy & Stakeholder Alignment

• Develop and maintain enterprise data governance strategies, policies, and standards.
• Align governance with business goals: compliance, analytics, and decision-making.
• Collaborate across business, IT, legal, and compliance teams for role alignment.
• Drive governance training, awareness, and change management programs.

2. Microsoft Purview Administration & Implementation

• Manage Microsoft Purview accounts, collections, and RBAC aligned to org structure.
• Optimize Purview setup for large-scale environments (50TB+).
• Integrate with Azure Data Lake, Synapse, SQL DB, Power BI, Snowflake.
• Schedule scans, set classification jobs, and maintain collection hierarchies.

3. Metadata & Lineage Management

• Design metadata repositories and maintain business glossaries and data dictionaries.
• Implement ingestion workflows via ADF, REST APIs, PowerShell, Azure Functions.
• Ensure lineage mapping (ADF → Synapse → Power BI) and impact analysis.

4. Data Classification & Security Governance

• Define classification rules and sensitivity labels (PII, PCI, PHI).
• Integrate with MIP, DLP, Insider Risk Management, and Compliance Manager.
• Enforce records management, lifecycle policies, and information barriers.

5. Data Quality & Policy Management

• Define KPIs and dashboards to monitor data quality across domains.
• Collaborate on rule design, remediation workflows, and exception handling.
• Ensure policy compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, etc.) and risk management.

6. Business Glossary & Stewardship

• Maintain business glossary with domain owners and stewards in Purview.
• Enforce approval workflows, standard naming, and steward responsibilities.
• Conduct metadata audits for glossary and asset documentation quality.

7. Automation & Integration

• Automate governance processes using PowerShell, Azure Functions, Logic Apps.
• Create pipelines for ingestion, lineage, glossary updates, tagging.
• Integrate with Power BI, Azure Monitor, Synapse Link, Collibra, BigID, etc.

8. Monitoring, Auditing & Compliance

• Set up dashboards for audit logs, compliance reporting, metadata coverage.
• Oversee data lifecycle management across its phases.
• Support internal and external audit readiness with proper documentation.

Tools & Technologies:

• Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Atlan, Informatica Axon, IBM IG Catalog
• Microsoft Purview capabilities:

1. Label creation & policy setup

2. Auto-labeling & DLP

3. Compliance Manager, Insider Risk, Records & Lifecycle Management

4. Unified Catalog, eDiscovery, Data Map, Audit, Compliance alerts, DSPM

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in data governance and data management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Purview and Informatica data governance tools.
• Strong in metadata management, lineage mapping, classification, and security.
• Experience with ADF, REST APIs, Talend, dbt, and automation via Azure tools.
• Knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, SOX and related compliance needs.
• Skilled in bridging technical governance with business and compliance goals.