Senior Project Manager

Job summary

Lead enterprise data governance initiatives, including framework design, metadata and lineage management, data quality standards, compliance controls, and stewardship operations. Drive adoption across business and technical teams, coordinate governance councils, and monitor audit logs, data quality metrics, and enterprise data management programs.

Job details

Job Requirements JD Hands on experience on Microsoft Purview setup implementaion configuration is a must Enterprise Data Governance Framework Design Deep understanding of how to architect implement and scale a governance framework from scratch Metadata Management Data Lineage Expertise in mapping data flows from source to consumption maintaining data catalogs and tracking technicaloperational metadata Data Quality DQ Engineering Standardization Ability to define DQ dimensions accuracy completeness validity etc establish profiling rules and set enterprisewide quality benchmarks Data Lexicon Semantics Profiling and building business glossaries to ensure uniform data definitions across disparate business units Regulatory Compliance Data Control Knowledge of risk frameworks privacy regulations like GDPR CCPA or BCBS 239 and implementing data accesssecurity controls Responsibility Change Management Governance Adoption The soft power required to convince business and technical teams to adopt new data habits and cultural standards CrossFunctional Collaboration Bridge Building Acting as the translator between highly technical data engineersIT and nontechnical business stakeholders Data Stewardship Program Operations Setting up operating models defining RACI matrices for data ownersstewards and running formal data certification workflows Program Management Continuous Monitoring Leading regular governance councils managing audit logs tracking DQ metricsdashboards and steering enterprise data management initiatives Primary Skills SQL complex queries joins aggregations ETL Testing Informatica DataStage Talend etc Data Warehousing Concepts StarSnowflake schema factdimension tables UnixLinux scripting for ETL validation Database Platforms Oracle SQL Server Teradata PostgreSQL Test Management Tools JIRA HP ALM Zephyr Data Validation Reconciliation Techniques Performance Testing for ETL jobs Secondary Skills PythonScala Scripting CICD Tools Jenkins GitLab Reporting Tools Tableau Power BI AgileScrum Practices Communication Documentation Work Experience 10-15Years

What you’ll do

Lead enterprise data governance initiatives, including framework design, metadata and lineage management, data quality standards, compliance controls, and stewardship operations. Drive adoption across business and technical teams, coordinate governance councils, and monitor audit logs, data quality metrics, and enterprise data management programs.

Requirements

Requires 10–15 years of experience and hands-on expertise setting up, implementing, and configuring Microsoft Purview, along with designing and scaling enterprise data governance frameworks. Candidates should have strong SQL, ETL testing, data warehousing, database, and data validation skills, plus experience with compliance, cross-functional collaboration, and program management.

Listed skills

• Change Management · Preferred
• SQL · Preferred
• Regulatory Compliance · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Microsoft Purview
• Enterprise Data Governance
• Metadata Management
• Data Lineage
• Data Quality Engineering
• Data Profiling
• Business Glossaries
• Regulatory Compliance
• Data Access Controls
• Change Management
• Data Stewardship
• Program Management
• SQL
• ETL Testing
• Data Warehousing
• Informatica DataStage Talend

Job areas

• Data & Analytics
• Technology
• Management & Leadership
• Consulting

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