Data Governance Lead at Kanerika Software · Hyderabad, Indore, Ahmedabad · 7 - 15 years · ₹22L - ₹40L / yr · Profitable · Posted 4 Nov 2025

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.
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.
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.
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.

About Kanerika Software
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Since 2015, Kanerika has been helping businesses turn ideas into impactful software products. With over 75 years of collective expertise, our team brings together deep product engineering knowledge and a passion for solving complex challenges. We focus on building software that is not just functional but transformative—solutions that create lasting value for our clients.
At Kanerika, we believe great outcomes come from strong partnerships, proven experience, and creative thinking. That’s why we keep our team lean, our approach hands-on, and our commitment unwavering: to deliver products that exceed expectations every time.
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- Design metadata repositories and maintain business glossaries and data dictionaries
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- Define classification rules and sensitivity labels (PII, PCI, PHI); integrate with MIP, DLP, Insider Risk Management
- Define KPIs and dashboards to monitor data quality across domains
- Maintain business glossary with domain owners and stewards; enforce approval workflows
- Automate governance processes using PowerShell, Azure Functions, Logic Apps
- Set up dashboards for audit logs, compliance reporting, and metadata coverage
- Collaborate across business, IT, legal, and compliance teams for role alignment
Ideal Candidate:-
- Strong Data Governance Lead Profile with deep Microsoft Purview and enterprise governance expertise
- Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 7+ years of experience in data governance and data management with at least the recent 3+ years of exposure in Microsoft Purview
- Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have experience defining, leading, and operationalizing an enterprise data governance framework — strategy, policies, and standards aligned to business goals and regulatory compliance.
- Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must be proficient in Microsoft Purview — accounts, collections, RBAC, classification/labelling, DLP, Unified Catalog, Data Map, eDiscovery, Compliance Manager, and lifecycle/records management (ideally at large scale, 50TB+).
- Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must be strong in metadata management, lineage mapping (e.g. ADF → Synapse → Power BI), data classification, and security governance (PII/PCI/PHI, sensitivity labels, MIP/DLP)
- Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have experience with data governance tools such as Informatica (Axon), Collibra, Atlan, or IBM IG Catalog.
- Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have experience integrating governance with the Azure data stack (Data Lake, Synapse, SQL DB, Power BI) and Snowflake, and automating via ADF, REST APIs, PowerShell, Azure Functions / Logic Apps.
- Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have experience defining data quality KPIs/dashboards, remediation workflows, and business glossary/stewardship (domain owners, approval workflows, metadata audits)
- Mandatory (Compliance): Must have strong knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and SOX compliance requirements.
- Mandatory (Skill): Must be able to bridge technical governance with business and compliance goals, collaborating across business, IT, legal, and compliance teams, and driving governance training and change management
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