Job Title: Project Manager – Microsoft Purview / Data Governance & Compliance (Banking Domain)
Location: Hybrid, Sheffield, UK (3days/Week Onsite)
Duration: 6months+ Contract Inside IR35
520GBP/Day Inside IR35
Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager with strong expertise in Microsoft Purview, data governance, and regulatory compliance within the banking and financial services sector. The role involves leading data compliance initiatives, managing Legal Holds, and defining data retention strategies aligned with regulatory and organizational requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead and manage end-to-end data governance and compliance projects within banking and financial services.
* 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.
* Oversee Legal Hold implementation—ensuring that triggers, hold processes, tracking and releases are properly managed in accordance with audit/regulatory requirements.
* 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.
* Engage with stakeholders (IT, business units, legal, compliance, data teams) to ensure project delivery on time, within scope, and aligned to regulatory demands.
* Monitor project performance, escalations, compliance adherence, and communicate status to senior management.
Required Skills & Experience:
* Proven experience as a Project Manager in Banking or Financial Services domain.
* Strong expertise in data governance, regulatory compliance and data management concepts in a finance context.
* Hands-on experience with Microsoft Purview (or equivalent enterprise data governance tool) covering data classification, lifecycle management, policy enforcement and retention.
* Experience managing Legal Holds, data retention/disposal frameworks and records management in a regulated environment.
* Solid understanding of banking/finance regulations impacting data (e.g., GDPR, FCA, PRA, AML/CTF data obligations).
* Excellent stakeholder engagement, strong communication skills and ability to operate in cross-functional governance teams.
* Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving abilities.
* Certifications such as PMP / PRINCE2 / Agile are beneficial.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration or equivalent.
* Experience within a major banking institution and exposure to global data governance programmes.
* Knowledge of Microsoft 365 Compliance Center or other compliance tooling.
Priyanka Sharma
Senior Delivery Consultant
Office: 02033759240
Email: psharma@vallumassociates.com