Data Governance Analyst: Purview & Lineage Expert

MSIG Europe; Amstelveen; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

MSIG Europe is seeking an experienced Data Governance Business Analyst to support enterprise governance initiatives across data platforms and analytics layers. You will work with data architects, stewards and engineers to establish governance workflows, data standards and metadata tagging within Azure-based environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on governance tooling (Purview, Unity Catalog), data lineage, and regulatory alignment in the Dutch insurance landscape.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or data-related business analysis roles.
• Hands-on experience implementing data governance tools, particularly Microsoft Purview or Unity Catalog.
• Strong experience working with data stakeholders across business and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Support design and implementation of enterprise data governance frameworks, processes, and policies.
• Support implementation of data governance controls aligned with regulatory and data protection frameworks such as GDPR, including data classification and metadata tagging.
• Help establish and operationalize data ownership, stewardship, and governance workflows.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to define data standards and governance practices.
• Lead the implementation and adoption of data catalog capabilities using Microsoft Purview.
• Develop and maintain a business glossary and data dictionary.
• Ensure business terms are mapped to technical metadata and data assets.
• Support end-to-end data lineage across data platforms.
• Enable traceability of data from source systems to analytics and reporting layers.
• Facilitate impact analysis for data changes.
• Work with business users, data stewards, data engineers, and architects to capture governance requirements.
• Facilitate workshops to define business definitions, data ownership, and data quality rules.
• Promote data governance awareness and adoption across teams.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on modern data platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric or Azure Databricks.
• Support metadata integration and governance across data lakes, warehouses, and analytics platforms.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Business analysis

SQL knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Management/ Data Management/ Computer Science

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Unity Catalog

Microsoft Azure

Azure Databricks

Power BI

Job description

MSIG Europe is seeking an experienced Data Governance Business Analyst to support enterprise governance initiatives across data platforms and analytics layers. You will work with data architects, stewards and engineers to establish governance workflows, data standards and metadata tagging within Azure-based environments.

The role emphasizes hands-on governance tooling (Purview, Unity Catalog), data lineage, and regulatory alignment in the Dutch insurance landscape.