Job Description

Company:

BluEnt

Project:

Enterprise Data Governance Rollout

Engagement:

Freelance / Part-time / Project-based

Location:

Remote (work with IST/US time zones as needed)

Start:

Immediate

Role Summary

BluEnt is looking for a hands-on

Data Governance Specialist

to lead the

Discovery & Framework phase

of an enterprise data governance rollout. This role will work closely with

business stakeholders, SMEs, the Steering Committee, and the CIO/IT leadership

to gather requirements and produce governance documentation, policies, and a practical operating model for rollout.

What You'll Do

Lead stakeholder interviews/workshops to capture business outcomes, in-scope data elements, pain points, and governance expectations Facilitate alignment with Steering Committee and CIO on decision rights, ownership, priorities, and approvals Create the

Data Governance Framework

(operating model, roles, RACI, governance forums, core processes) Draft and finalize key policies and standards:

Data Classification

and handling guidelines

Access Controls

(RBAC/least privilege), non-prod masking expectations

Data Quality

policy, ownership, SLAs and monitoring approach

Metadata standards

(business + technical metadata requirements) Produce core discovery and documentation artifacts:

Data Discovery / System & Dataset inventory

(priority systems, datasets, owners, sensitivity)

Business Glossary

(key terms, definitions, owners)

High-level Data Lineage

(source ? transformations ? reporting/consumption)

Governance roadmap

(phased plan + quick wins) Maintain RAID/action tracker and provide executive-ready weekly status updates
Key Deliverables

Discovery summary + requirements documentation Governance operating model + RACI + governance process playbook Policy pack (classification, access, data quality, metadata) Data inventory/catalog template + initial populated version High-level lineage diagrams + initial glossary Rollout roadmap (people/process/tooling)
Required Experience & Skills

6-12+ years in

Data Governance / Data Management / Data Architecture

Strong experience running discovery with senior stakeholders (CIO, Steering Committee, Security/Legal, SMEs) Solid understanding of

data ownership/stewardship, access controls, data classification, data quality, and metadata/lineage

Excellent documentation and communication (clear, executive-friendly writing) Comfortable producing deliverables in

Word / PowerPoint / Excel

(Visio/Lucidchart/Miro a plus)
Nice to Have

Experience with governance/catalog tools (Purview, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan, etc.) Exposure to compliance frameworks (SOX, SOC2, GDPR, etc.) Cloud data platform experience (Azure/AWS/Snowflake/Databricks/Fabric)
Job Type: Contractual / Temporary
Contract length: 3 months

Pay: ₹6,000.00 - ₹12,000.00 per month

Work Location: Remote