Purview Unified Catalog Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Provide support to a client in the real estate and housing industry during a brief, time-limited Data Governance and Data Catalogue project.

• Evaluate and enhance the client's current Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog.

• Rapidly grasp the existing configuration and expedite delivery from the outset.

• Examine the client's data warehouse and source systems, including its CRM, to integrate technical metadata and lineage into Purview.

• Establish and populate governance domains.

• Organize data assets, glossary terms, and ownership within each domain.

• Develop and sustain the business glossary.

• Collaborate with Data Owners and Data Stewards to finalize definitions and responsibilities.

• Designate suitable owners and stewards across domains and assets.

• Implement classifications such as Public, Internal, Private, and PII.

• Enhance the structure and quality of the current catalogue.

• Assist with metadata, lineage, and governance initiatives.

• Partner closely with business and technical stakeholders to ensure catalogue content is precise and functional.

• Propel the existing Purview implementation and provide the client with a well-structured and usable data catalogue.

⛳️ Requirements

• Recent, hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog.

• Strong background in building and curating data catalogues.

• Familiarity with data domains, assets, business glossaries, ownership, and stewardship.

• Practical experience in metadata management.

• Knowledge of data lineage and source-system scanning.

• Proficiency in applying data classifications such as Public, Internal, Private, and PII.

• Experience collaborating directly with Data Owners and Data Stewards.

• Capability to work with business stakeholders to establish definitions, ownership, and governance.

• Solid understanding of Data Governance and Metadata Management.

• Ability to swiftly comprehend an existing Purview environment and speed up delivery.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Capacity to work autonomously and achieve measurable results within a short engagement.

• Proven recent hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog.

• Experience in curating a data catalogue, rather than merely configuring scans.

• Familiarity with business glossaries, metadata, data domains, and data assets.

• Experience with data ownership and stewardship.

• Understanding of data classification and PII.

• Knowledge of data lineage and technical metadata.

• Experience working alongside Data Owners, Data Stewards, and business stakeholders.

• Strong expertise in Data Governance.

• Ability to work independently within an existing enterprise environment.

• Candidates must possess recent Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog experience.

• Purview experience primarily centered on compliance, DLP, or Information Protection is not suitable.

• Desirable: Experience presenting catalogue content outside of Purview.

• Desirable: Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric.

• Desirable: Experience creating catalogue experiences using Power BI or Fabric apps.

• Desirable: Ability to convey technical catalogue information in clear business language.

• Desirable: Experience scanning CRM and data warehouse sources into Purview.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal-opportunity, inclusive employer.

• Fair consideration of all applicants.

• Initial engagement anticipated to last for approximately 6–8 weeks.

• Brief, time-constrained engagement.

• Opportunity to start ASAP.