Kiran Kumar
Data Governance Consultant @CriticalRiver Inc.
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WORK HISTORY
Data Governance Consultant @CriticalRiver Inc.
Oshawa, ON, CA
Led the enterprise-wide implementation of Collibra Data Governance Center and Azure Purview, enabling centralized metadata management, data lineage tracking, and policy enforcement.• Configured Collibra and Azure Purview to catalog structured and unstructured data assets, ensuring seamless metadata capture, classification, and searchability across enterprise data repositories.• Established end-to-end data lineage using Collibra Lineage and Azure Purview’s automated scanning, providing traceability of data transformations and dependencies across applications.• Developed and maintained a centralized business glossary in Collibra, aligning business terms, definitions, and taxonomies for improved data consistency and governance.• Configured Collibra workflows to define data ownership and stewardship roles, ensuring accountability for data governance policies and issue resolution.• Integrated Collibra Data Catalog and Azure Purview’s unified data map, allowing users to efficiently discover, classify, and track metadata across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.• Designed data quality dashboards in Collibra by integrating with Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) and Azure-native data quality tools to track data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.• Configured Collibra Privacy & Risk modules and Azure Purview’s sensitivity labeling to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.• Developed data governance policies in Collibra Policy Manager, integrating them with Azure Purview’s governance model to automate policy enforcement across enterprise data assets.• Automated data classification using Azure Purview’s AI-driven classification engine, tagging sensitive data and integrating results with Collibra Data Privacy module.• Conducted Collibra and Azure Purview training sessions, ensuring enterprise-wide adoption of data governance tools, policies, and best practices.
EDUCATION
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
ABOUT KIRAN KUMAR
Results-driven Data Governance Consultant with 7+ years of experience implementing data governance frameworks, ensuring data quality, compliance, and security across enterprise environments. Proficient in metadata management, data lineage, data cataloging, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA). Adept at collaborating with stakeholders to establish data stewardship programs and drive enterprise-wide data governance initiatives. Extensive experience with Collibra, Azure Purview, and Informatica for data governance and management.• Successfully designed and implemented data governance frameworks tailored to enterprise needs, ensuring structured data management and compliance.• Led initiatives to enhance data accuracy, consistency, and reliability using data profiling, cleansing, and validation techniques.• Successfully designed and implemented enterprise-wide data governance frameworks, including data ownership models, stewardship roles, and policy enforcement mechanisms, ensuring alignment with organizational governance goals.• Implemented Collibra Data Catalog, Business Glossary, and Data Lineage to enable enterprise-wide visibility into data assets and ensure metadata consistency.• Integrated Collibra with PostgreSQL, Snowflake, and Salesforce Cloud (SFDC), leveraging both out-of-the-box connectors and custom APIs to support seamless data governance workflows.• Designed and deployed Collibra workflows for Data Governance (DG) and Data Quality (DQ), including issue management, stewardship approvals, and data certification processes.• Developed metadata management frameworks using Collibra, Alation, and Azure Purview, building standardized data dictionaries and enriched metadata for business and technical users.• Built and maintained end-to-end data lineage models in Collibra to support impact analysis, audit readiness, and compliance initiatives (GDPR, HIPAA).• Partnered with data stewards, business stakeholders, and IT teams to define governance policies, assign ownership, and ensure accountability across critical data domains.• Led initiatives to enhance data quality by designing Collibra-integrated workflows for profiling, cleansing, and monitoring, resulting in improved accuracy and timeliness of enterprise data.• Created governance documentation and stewardship guidelines, including standards, policies, and quality rules to align with DAMA-DMBOK best practices.• Acted as the central liaison between project managers, governance leads, and IT developers to ensure smooth execution of Collibra implementation phases.
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