W2 contract || Data Governance Consultant

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in project kickoff and planning activities.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews (up to 15 stakeholders).
• Identify data assets, repositories, and governance use cases.
• Define test datasets and document current-state governance controls.

Data Classification & Governance Evaluation

• Assess data discovery, classification, and labelling capabilities.
• Evaluate custom classifiers, sensitive information types (SITs), and auto-labelling policies.
• Test governance capabilities across: SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online, On-premises File Shares (CIFS/NFS).

Access Governance & DSPM Assessment

• Evaluate permission analytics and entitlement visibility.
• Assess excessive access detection and data ownership capabilities.
• Review governance controls and remediation workflows.
• Analyze policy enforcement mechanisms and DLP controls.

AI Data Risk Governance

• Evaluate DSPM for AI capabilities.
• Assess governance controls for Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and enterprise AI applications.
• Review AI policy enforcement, monitoring, and reporting functions.
• Evaluate AI data exposure and risk management capabilities.

Vendor & Technical Coordination

• Coordinate with Microsoft, Varonis, and BigID teams.
• Review platform configurations and deployment approaches.
• Validate use cases and technical outcomes across vendors.
• Support environment readiness and testing activities.

Reporting & Recommendations

• Consolidate findings from all governance pillars.
• Develop comparative scoring and assessment reports.
• Document platform strengths, weaknesses, and trade-offs.
• Contribute to architecture recommendations (single vendor, hybrid, or best-of-breed approach).
• Support executive presentations and knowledge transfer sessions.