Senior Data Governance Lead
About The Position
Blue Orange Digital is seeking a Senior Data Governance Lead for a part-time advisory role spanning Weeks 2-18 of a 26-week enterprise data warehouse implementation for a global commodities trading and supply chain company. You will design and implement the data governance framework for a Microsoft Fabric platform built over fragmented legacy data - multiple regional ERPs, CTRM instances (including Irely), and a concurrent SAP S/4HANA finance transformation - spanning trading, risk, finance, and logistics data domains. This is a greenfield governance engagement with high influence and real production impact on a modern Fabric architecture.
Requirements
- 7+ years in data governance, data management, or data architecture with production governance framework implementations
- Experience with Microsoft Azure or Fabric governance capabilities - Microsoft Purview a strong advantage for OneLake/Fabric cataloging and lineage
- Strong background in data lineage, metadata management, and data quality frameworks at enterprise scale
- Familiarity with financial or commodity trading data domains and the governance complexity of multi-source, cross-domain environments
- Experience defining stewardship processes and working with business owners to operationalize governance policies
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, data, or business field (or equivalent experience)
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on Microsoft Purview experience for Fabric/Azure data cataloging, classification, and lineage scanning
- Data governance certification (DAMA CDMP or equivalent)
- Experience in financial services, commodity trading, or global supply chain data environments
- Background in master data management across ERP and CTRM source systems (SAP MDG or similar a plus)
Responsibilities
- Design and implement the enterprise data governance framework across OneLake and Fabric workspace layers, covering cataloging, lineage, ownership, and access control
- Define and enforce data cataloging standards for Bronze/Silver/Gold assets including Lakehouse tables, Warehouse objects, and Semantic Model entities
- Establish end-to-end data lineage tracking from source systems (ERP, CTRM, SAP) through transformation layers to final reporting data products
- Develop and apply data quality rules and validation frameworks across ingestion and transformation layers, integrated with Fabric pipeline execution
- Define naming conventions, data classification standards, and workspace-level access control policies in alignment with Fabric governance capabilities
- Collaborate with SAP S/4HANA and CTRM integration workstreams to document source-system metadata and lineage for all key data domains
- Develop and lead master data management strategy for key shared entities across trading, finance, and logistics domains
- Produce governance documentation, data stewardship process guides, and training materials for client data owners and analysts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Senior
