Solution Architect - Microsoft Purview; Data Catalog & Governance

Solution Architect - Microsoft Purview (Data Catalog & Governance)

Duration: 10+ Months

Location:

Remote

An experienced Solution Architect to lead the enterprise rollout of Microsoft Purview across a complex global, multi cloud environment. The consultant will define architecture, implement domain-based governance, and drive adoption of Purview capabilities including cataloging, lineage, classification, access governance, and compliance controls.

• Architecture & Implementation
• Define target state architecture for Microsoft Purview across Azure, AWS, M365, on prem, and third party platforms.
• Develop and drive the implementation roadmap across U.S. Businesses, PGIM, Corporate Technology, and international units.
• Establish Purview reference architecture, integration patterns, and guardrails.
• Domain Based Governance
• Design collections, hierarchies, and RBAC aligned to domain structures and legal entity boundaries.
• Enable domain owned stewardship while enforcing enterprise taxonomies and governance standards.
• Platform Configuration
• Configure Data Map, Catalog, Scans, Classifications, Sensitivity Labels, and Lineage.
• Optimize scan strategy (frequency, cost, performance) and extend classifiers and metadata models.
• Security & Compliance
• Integrate Purview with M365 Information Protection, Entra , and security baselines.
• Support PII/PCI/PHI detection, access governance, and regulatory compliance (SOX, GLBA, NYDFS, GDPR).
• Engineering & Integration
• Integrate with Synapse, Fabric, Databricks (including Unity Catalog), Snowflake, SQL Server, AWS sources, and SAP/Oracle.
• Implement IaC (Bicep/Terraform), CI/CD for Purview artifacts, and automation via APIs.
• Adoption & Stakeholder Management
• Deliver training, onboarding playbooks, and steward enablement.
• Lead workshops for new data domains and products.
• Provide executive level reporting on progress, risks, and KPIs.

• 10+ years in data architecture/governance; 2+ years hands on Purview experience at enterprise scale.
• Strong expertise in metadata management, lineage, classification, scan optimization, glossary management and domain based operating models.
• Solid Azure ecosystem knowledge (Storage, Key Vault, Synapse, Fabric, Databricks), M365 Information Protection, and Entra .
• Experience with IaC (Bicep/Terraform), APIs/Atlas, and scripting (Power Shell/Python).
• Financial services or regulated industry exposure.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder leadership, and cross domain facilitation skills.