Assistant Manager-KDNI

Role overview

Assistant Manager-KDNI at KPMG

The role involves defining and implementing enterprise-wide governance frameworks, establishing metadata management and stewardship practices, and ensuring data quality, lineage, security, compliance, and access governance across the organization's data estate.

Responsibilities

• Lead metadata management initiatives including data cataloging, business glossary development, data classification, ownership assignment, and stewardship processes.
• Drive data security, privacy, retention, compliance, and access governance practices through centralized governance and policy enforcement mechanisms.
• Conduct governance maturity assessments, define implementation roadmaps, and support governance adoption and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support audit, risk, regulatory, and AI-readiness initiatives by ensuring governance controls, metadata visibility, lineage, and policy compliance are consistently enforced.

Required qualifications

• Minimum qualification: Graduation

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore [Karnataka] [India]

Additional role details

• The Assistant Manager will bring 6+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, and Modern Data Platforms, with expertise in either Microsoft Fabric & Purview or Azure Databricks & Unity Catalog.
• Define, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, controls, and operating models aligned with business and regulatory requirements.
• Implement and govern end-to-end data lineage, impact analysis, auditability, and observability across modern data platforms.
• Establish and monitor data quality frameworks, controls, scorecards, validation processes, and remediation workflows to improve trust and consistency of enterprise data.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data owners, architects, engineers, platform teams, and compliance functions to operationalize governance across critical data domains.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain governance concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences.
• Strong hands-on experience with either: Microsoft Purview (Data Catalog, Data Map, Business Glossary, Data Lineage, Data Classification), and Microsoft Fabric Governance, or Azure Databricks Unity Catalog, including metadata management, governance, lineage, auditing, and access control capabilities Experience implementing enterprise data governance frameworks, stewardship operating models, and governance controls.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, data quality management, compliance reporting, and governance best practices.
• Good understanding of access governance concepts including RBAC, ABAC, row-level security, column-level security, data classification, sensitivity labeling, and regulatory compliance requirements Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, Lakehouse architecture, and modern cloud data platforms.
• Experience working with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, or equivalent enterprise governance technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, technology, and governance teams.