Solution Architect - Microsoft Purview

Job Title

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Data architecture/governance, 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 ID.

• Experience with IaC (Bicep/Terraform), APIs/Atlas, and scripting (PowerShell/Python).

• Financial services or regulated industry exposure.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder leadership, and cross-domain facilitation skills.

Roles & Responsibilities

Architecture & Implementation

• Define target-state architecture for Microsoft Purview across Azure, AWS, M365, on-prem, and third-party platforms.

• Design and develop the integration patterns for consolidation of catalogs into purview from Informatica and similar.

• 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 ID, 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.