Data Governance and Security Manager

Data Governance And Security Manager

Alpha Omega is seeking a highly skilled Microsoft Purview / Security Manager to support a major Federal program. This role requires deep hands-on expertise across Microsoft Purview's data security, data governance, and data compliance capabilities with proven experience designing, implementing, and operationalizing enterprise-scale solutions. The ideal candidate can translate governance and security policies into scalable technical architectures, ensuring data protection, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance across a complex federal data estate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end architecture, configuration, and deployment of Microsoft Purview solutions across Data Governance, Data Security, and Data Compliance pillars.
• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with business, legal, privacy, records, and security stakeholders to translate policy, regulatory, and operational needs into actionable Purview configurations.
• Architect and implement Purview-based controls including:
• Data Loss Prevention (endpoint, email, SharePoint/One Drive, Teams, cloud apps)
• Sensitivity labels, labeling policies, and encryption workflows
• Insider Risk Management policies and analytics
• Information Barriers and data segregation controls
• Records Management, Retention/Deletion policies, File Plan mapping
• eDiscovery Standard/Premium workflows, holds, collections, and review sets
• Data Lifecycle Management and data residency enforcement
• Establish and maintain the Microsoft Purview Data Map and Data Catalog, ensuring appropriate metadata harvesting, scanning rules, classification schemas, and lineage tracking across cloud and on-premises data sources.
• Conduct data environment assessments, including ROT (redundant, obsolete, trivial) analysis, unclassified vs. controlled data assessments, and large-scale mapping of file shares, repositories, and tenant-wide content.
• Design and maintain Data Classification frameworks using custom and out-of-the-box classifiers, machine learning classifiers, and sensitive information types.
• Implement governance guardrails, policy hierarchies, and compliance baselines to support federal mandates, OMB/NIST standards, agency-specific directives, and Zero Trust requirements.
• Support and lead tenant-wide migrations, environment consolidation activities, and data cleanup initiatives, including after-hours migration windows when required.
• Create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, SOPs, operational runbooks, and governance artifacts.
• Monitor and respond to compliance alerts, policy violations, and security incidents, recommending remediation actions and driving issue resolution.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, information security, data stewards, and M365 engineering to ensure alignment with broader data strategy and platform standards.
• Provide guidance and enablement to teams across the organization, including training, knowledge transfer, and best practices for Purview adoption.
• Continuously evaluate new Purview features, roadmap releases, and federal compliance requirements to optimize the agency's data protection posture.

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• U.S. Citizenship required by Federal client.
• Minimum 3-5 years of hands-on experience implementing, configuring, and operating Microsoft Purview solutions across:
• Data Governance:
  Data Map, Data Catalog, Scanning, Classification, Lineage, Data Estate Insights.
• Data Security: DLP (all workloads), Sensitivity Labels & Policies, Insider Risk, Information Barriers, Data Security Posture Management, Data Access Governance.
• Data Compliance: eDiscovery Standard/Premium, Audit, Records Management, Retention/Deletion, Data Lifecycle Management, Communication Compliance, Compliance Manager.
• 5+ years delivering complex enterprise technology solutions including architecture design, configuration, testing, rollout, and operationalization.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365, Azure AD/Entra , Exchange Online, SharePoint/One Drive, Teams, and Azure data services.
• Practical experience with enterprise metadata management, data classification design, scanning configurations, data mapping, and resolving governance/security issues across diverse data estates.
• Ability to design reusable Purview patterns and workflows that incorporate automation, compliance guardrails, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Proven ability to translate business, legal, and compliance requirements into technical policies and solutions.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Certification(s):

• PL-900 (required prior to start date).
• PL-100, PL-200, SC-400, SC-900, or Microsoft Copilot/Azure AI governance certifications preferred.
• Additional ideal certs: SC-300 (Identity), MS-700 (M365 Admin), AZ-104/305 (Azure).

Preferred Skills

• Experience with power-platform-driven automations supporting governance (Power Apps, Power Automate, COE Starter Kit,…