Senior Architect, Data Classification and Governance Pay Rate: $100 - $120/hour, depending on experience Contract Length: Contract runs until March 31, 2027 (possibility of extension) Location: Calgary (hybrid) Raise is currently hiring a contract team member on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Description Our client is seeking a Senior Architect, Data Classification and Governance to own the technology architecture standard for data governance across a heterogeneous estate in transition. This role advises developers, data architects, and data modellers on how to build classification, access control, retention, and quality directly into design and delivery decisions, working at the level of specific schema, model, and control choices rather than high-level principles. The successful candidate will define the target governance toolchain architecture, assess the current state of the estate, and prove each architecture standard with a working reference implementation rather than a document alone. This is a hands‑on technical architecture role that spans structured, unstructured, and geospatial data, requiring both deep governance expertise and the credibility to sit in design reviews and give specific, implementable direction to development teams. Responsibilities Author the technology architecture standard for data governance, covering classification, metadata and tagging, access control, retention, quality instrumentation, lineage, and reference data change control across structured, unstructured, and geospatial data Advise developers,



data architects, and data modellers on building governance into design and delivery at the level of specific schema, model, and control decisions; participate in design reviews and provide written governance assessments of in‑flight work Define the classification approach for each data shape: structured data in custom application databases and the lakehouse, unstructured content in document and file estates, and geospatial data at the feature and attribute level Define the target governance toolchain architecture across Microsoft Purview and Databricks Unity Catalog, including which is authoritative for classification, lineage, and glossary, how the two federate, and what neither covers natively Assess the current estate to determine what is governed centrally, what is governed at source, and what is deferred; sequence governance against what the estate supports today versus what requires platform change Advise the internal team that owns business data governance standards on technology feasibility, implementation effort, and downstream cost; identify gaps where those standards are silent, ambiguous, or unimplementable, and bring specific recommendations Prove each architecture standard with a reference implementation or proof of concept so teams receive a working pattern rather than a document to interpret Work with Data Architecture to embed governance into data contracts, schema ownership, and ingestion patterns so current data lands governed by default Build internal staff capability through design coaching, pattern walkthroughs, and developer‑facing documentation;

📌 Senior Architect, Data Classification And Governance (Calgary)
🏢 Raise
📍 Calgary