Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms (Microsoft)

Location: Remote - US

Company

hirify.global provides consulting and technology services focused on Microsoft-aligned data, AI, cloud, security, and enterprise transformation solutions.

What you will do

• Lead the vision, strategy, business plan, portfolio, operating model, investment roadmap, and performance metrics for the Data Governance Platforms practice.
• Define market positioning, offerings, commercial models, value propositions, and collaboration boundaries across data, AI, security, and industry teams.
• Build demand, originate and shape strategic opportunities, lead executive workshops, and develop senior client relationships with C-suite and executive stakeholders.
• Advise clients on governance across Microsoft Purview, Fabric, OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365, Copilot Studio, Azure, and heterogeneous enterprise environments.
• Guide governance control planes covering identity, metadata, cataloging, policy, classification, protection, quality, lineage, observability, evaluation, audit, and runtime enforcement.
• Build leadership capacity, reusable intellectual property, partner ecosystems, delivery capability, solution governance, and repeatable market offerings.

Requirements

• 15+ years in data, analytics, cloud, security, AI, or enterprise transformation, including senior consulting, professional services, or technology practice leadership.
• Demonstrated success building and scaling a consulting practice or major capability with accountability for strategy, offerings, pipeline, revenue, margin, talent, partnerships, and client outcomes.
• Proven success originating, qualifying, shaping, and winning complex data and AI transformation opportunities with C-suite and senior executives.
• Executive-level credibility across data governance, metadata, catalogs, lineage, quality, MDM, privacy, security, compliance, data products, semantic context, ontologies, and responsible AI.
• Ability to advise on Microsoft Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365 and Graph, Copilot Studio, Azure data and AI services, Entra, Defender, Sentinel, and relevant partner platforms.
• Experience advising on AI and agent governance, including grounding, lifecycle controls, identity, permissions, actions, memory, oversight, evaluation, observability, audit, and incident response.
• Architecture depth to challenge designs, identify risks, frame platform tradeoffs, guide principal-level specialists, and explain technical choices to executive audiences.
• Strong commercial judgment across qualification, value engineering, estimation, contracting, staffing, delivery risk, margin, investment decisions, and benefits realization.
• Exceptional executive presence, facilitation, storytelling, written communication, structured problem solving, and stakeholder alignment skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience required. Advanced degree and relevant Microsoft, governance, security, privacy, cloud, or responsible AI certifications are preferred.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree.
• Relevant Microsoft, governance, security, privacy, cloud, or responsible AI certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role based in the US.
• Culture encourages experimentation, candid feedback, accountability, collaboration, and continuous growth.
• hirify.global promotes a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and encourages applications from candidates who do not meet every qualification.
• Work visa sponsorship is not available.