Purview Unified Catalog Consultant

• Support a client in the real estate and housing sector on a short, time-boxed Data Governance and Data Catalogue engagement
• Review and build upon the client's existing Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog
• Quickly understand the existing setup and accelerate delivery from day one
• Scan the client's data warehouse and source systems, including its CRM, to bring technical metadata and lineage into Purview
• Set up and populate governance domains
• Organise data assets, glossary terms and ownership within each domain
• Build and maintain the business glossary
• Work with Data Owners and Data Stewards to agree definitions and accountability
• Assign appropriate owners and stewards across domains and assets
• Apply classifications including Public, Internal, Private and PII
• Improve the structure and quality of the existing catalogue
• Support metadata, lineage and governance activities
• Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to ensure catalogue content is accurate and usable
• Accelerate the existing Purview implementation and leave the client with a structured and usable data catalogue

• Recent, hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog
• Strong experience building and curating data catalogues
• Experience with data domains, assets, business glossaries, ownership and stewardship
• Hands-on experience with metadata management
• Experience with data lineage and source-system scanning
• Experience applying data classifications such as Public, Internal, Private and PII
• Experience working directly with Data Owners and Data Stewards
• Ability to work with business stakeholders to agree definitions, ownership and governance
• Strong understanding of Data Governance and Metadata Management
• Ability to quickly understand an existing Purview environment and accelerate delivery
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Ability to work independently and deliver tangible outcomes within a short engagement
• Proven, recent hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog
• Experience curating a data catalogue, not simply configuring scans
• Experience with business glossaries, metadata, data domains and data assets
• Experience with data ownership and stewardship
• Experience with data classification and PII
• Understanding of data lineage and technical metadata
• Experience working with Data Owners, Data Stewards and business stakeholders
• Strong Data Governance experience
• Ability to work independently within an existing enterprise environment
• Candidates must have recent Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog experience
• Purview experience primarily focused on compliance, DLP or Information Protection is not suitable
• Desirable: Experience presenting catalogue content outside Purview
• Desirable: Experience with Microsoft Fabric
• Desirable: Experience building catalogue experiences using Power BI or Fabric apps
• Desirable: Ability to communicate technical catalogue information in clear business language
• Desirable: Experience scanning CRM and data warehouse sources into Purview

• Equal-opportunity, inclusive employer
• Fair consideration of all applicants
• Initial engagement expected to run for approximately 6–8 weeks
• Short, time-boxed engagement
• Ability to start ASAP