Senior Data Security & Governance Specialist

Summary

The Senior Data Security & Governance Specialist is responsible for defining and enforcing governance, compliance, and security controls across modern data platforms built on Azure and Databricks. This role ensures that data is secure, trusted, and compliant while supporting consistent data definitions and governance practices across analytics and reporting environments. The specialist plays a critical role in managing access, ensuring regulatory compliance, and building confidence in enterprise data assets.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain a data governance framework including policies, standards, and procedures.
• Implement and manage fine-grained access control using Azure AD, RBAC, and Databricks Unity Catalog.
• Oversee metadata management, data cataloging, and lineage tracking across data assets.
• Ensure secure data flows across ADF, Databricks, AAS, and Power BI.
• Define and enforce role-based and row-level security in semantic models.
• Partner with engineering teams to enforce encryption in transit and at rest.
• Implement and audit secret management practices using Azure Key Vault and Databricks secret scopes.
• Define and monitor data quality rules, including automated validation processes.
• Lead compliance initiatives to meet GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, or industry-specific requirements.
• Conduct regular audits, review access logs, and investigate anomalies.
• Provide governance oversight for semantic models to ensure consistent metric definitions.
• Collaborate with business data owners and stewards to assign ownership and accountability.
• Deliver training and communication to promote a data governance culture across teams.

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