Data Governance Consultant (Purview)

Data Governance Consultant (Purview) Location: Remote, UK Duration: 6 months Rate: £500-550 p/d (Outside IR35)

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Data Governance Consultant (Purview) to work for a leading private healthcare client on an initial 6mth contract

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage end-to-end data governance and compliance projects.
• Collaborate with compliance, legal, risk, and data management teams to develop and enforce data controls, classification regimes, and retention/disposal frameworks.
• Configure, administer and drive adoption of Microsoft Purview (or equivalent) for data cataloguing, classification, policy enforcement, and retention management.
• Define and enforce data retention and disposal policies aligned with regulatory obligations (e.g., GDPR, FCA, PRA) and internal governance mandates.
• Identify data-related risks across systems, drive mitigation strategies, and maintain a risk-register for data governance activities.
• Create and maintain project artefacts: governance frameworks, risk & issue logs, dashboards, status reports and compliance evidence.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong expertise in data governance and data management concepts in a finance context.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview (or equivalent enterprise data governance tool OneTrust) covering data classification, lifecycle management, policy enforcement and retention.
• Experience with creating Data Governance sensitivity labels, policies etc
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, strong communication skills and ability to operate in cross-functional governance teams.

If interested in this Data Governance Consultant (Purview) role please apply with your latest CV for immediate review.

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