Senior Data Governance Architect – Azure, Databricks

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise data governance capabilities across Azure and Databricks environments.
• Lead the implementation and optimisation of Databricks Unity Catalog.
• Define and implement metadata management, data lineage, and data catalogue capabilities.
• Design governance operating models, standards, policies, and controls.
• Configure and integrate governance tooling including Collibra and Microsoft Purview.
• Develop business, technical, and end-to-end lineage frameworks.
• Define data ownership, stewardship, classification, and access management processes.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Business teams to embed governance across the platform.
• Support stakeholder workshops, requirements gathering, and governance adoption activities.
• Produce architecture documentation, governance frameworks, solution designs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Support governance best practices across data quality, metadata management, security, and compliance.

Requirements

• Strong experience working within Azure data environments.
• Proven experience with Databricks and modern cloud data platforms.
• Hands‑on experience implementing and managing Databricks Unity Catalog.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise data governance frameworks.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, and data catalogue solutions.
• Experience engaging with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture and cloud data platform design.
• Experience defining governance controls, standards, and operating models.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Hard Skills

• Azure
• Databricks
• Databricks Unity Catalog
• metadata management
• data lineage
• data catalogue
• data governance frameworks
• data architecture
• cloud data platform design
• governance controls

Soft Skills

• communication
• facilitation
• stakeholder management

Industry Keywords

• enterprise data governance
• data ownership
• data stewardship
• data classification
• access management
• governance best practices
• data quality
• security
• compliance

Tools & Technologies

• Collibra
• Microsoft Purview