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DATA GOVERNANCE EXPERT

capgemini
capgemini Salary
Newark, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 2/26/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/26/2026

We are seeking an experienced Data Governance Expert with deep hands-on expertise in Microsoft Purview and strong exposure to data and AI initiatives. The ideal candidate will have proven experience implementing enterprise scale data governance programs, including metadata management, lineage, classification, and stewardship operating models. Experience within the investment management or financial services domain is highly preferred. This role requires someone who can effectively collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders to drive governance outcomes across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Purview Administration & Technical Enablement:

  • Lead setup, configuration, and operations of Microsoft Purview (Data Map, Catalog, Scanning, Lineage, Classification, Glossary).

  • Implement metadata harvesting from diverse sources SQL, Oracle, Data Lake, S3, Lakehouse, BI tools, Fabric pipelines.

  • Develop API based automation for metadata ingestion, lineage enrichment, and stewardship workflows.

  • Maintain Purview policies, sensitivity labels, roles, permissions, and governance rules.

Data Governance Program Implementation:

  • Design and operationalize enterprise-wide governance frameworks: ownership models, stewardship processes, metadata standards, certification workflows, and RACI structures.

  • Drive governance adoption across domains, ensuring alignment to regulatory, compliance, and business reporting requirements.

  • Establish KPIs to track catalog coverage, lineage completeness, classification accuracy, and data quality improvements.

  • Support audits, controls, and compliance evidence creation using Purview lineage and metadata.

Metadata, Lineage & Data Quality Integration:

  • Build end to end lineage across ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers

  • Integrate metadata with DQ tools to surface profiling, quality rules, and issue insights directly within Purview models.

  • Work with engineering teams to embed metadata contracts and lineage

Business & Technical Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Engage with business owners, data stewards, portfolio managers, investment operations teams, and technology teams to drive data governance activities.

  • Facilitate workshops, governance forums, lineage walkthroughs, and metadata curation sessions.

  • Translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly narratives to support decision making.

  • Act as a bridge between analytics, AI teams, data engineering, and business product owners.

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills:

  • Strong, hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview (Data Map, Catalog, Scanning, Lineage, Classification, Glossary).

  • Background in data engineering, data architecture, or AI/ML data pipelines understands how data flows through modern platforms.

  • Proven experience implementing data governance programs from planning to operational execution.

  • Familiarity with Azure fabric, data lake houses, SQL platforms, BI ecosystems.

  • Knowledge of data modeling, metadata standards, lineage frameworks, and DQ concepts.

Domain Skills

Exposure to investment management, asset management, or financial services, with understanding of data domains like:

  • Portfolio/positions

  • Security master

  • Trades & transactions

  • Reference data

  • Risk & performance analytics

  • Ability to map governance requirements to regulatory expectations in the investment domain.

Soft Skills:

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement capability able to work with C suite, business leaders, stewards, and engineers.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to formalize processes and drive change.

  • Ability to manage cross functional programs and influence without authority.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 10-15 years of data governance experience, preferably within a large enterprise.

  • Experience with complementary tools such as Solidatus, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Purview.

  • Certifications: Azure, DAMA, DCAM, Data Governance, or related.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $38.83/hour - $60.68/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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