Assistant Manager-KDNI

The Assistant Manager will bring 6+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, and Modern Data Platforms, with expertise in either Microsoft Fabric & Purview or Azure Databricks & Unity Catalog. The role involves defining and implementing enterprise-wide governance frameworks, establishing metadata management and stewardship practices, and ensuring data quality, lineage, security, compliance, and access governance across the organization's data estate.

• Define, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, controls, and operating models aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

• Lead metadata management initiatives including data cataloging, business glossary development, data classification, ownership assignment, and stewardship processes.
• Implement and govern end-to-end data lineage, impact analysis, auditability, and observability across modern data platforms.
• Establish and monitor data quality frameworks, controls, scorecards, validation processes, and remediation workflows to improve trust and consistency of enterprise data.
• Drive data security, privacy, retention, compliance, and access governance practices through centralized governance and policy enforcement mechanisms.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data owners, architects, engineers, platform teams, and compliance functions to operationalize governance across critical data domains.
• Conduct governance maturity assessments, define implementation roadmaps, and support governance adoption and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support audit, risk, regulatory, and AI-readiness initiatives by ensuring governance controls, metadata visibility, lineage, and policy compliance are consistently enforced.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain governance concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences.
• •Strong hands-on experience with either:
• Microsoft Purview (Data Catalog, Data Map, Business Glossary, Data Lineage, Data Classification), and Microsoft Fabric Governance, or
• Azure Databricks Unity Catalog, including metadata management, governance, lineage, auditing, and access control capabilities
• Experience implementing enterprise data governance frameworks, stewardship operating models, and governance controls.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, data quality management, compliance reporting, and governance best practices.
• Good understanding of access governance concepts including RBAC, ABAC, row-level security, column-level security, data classification, sensitivity labeling, and regulatory compliance requirements
• Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, Lakehouse architecture, and modern cloud data platforms.
• Experience working with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, or equivalent enterprise governance technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, technology, and governance teams.