Data Governance and Compliance Specialist (Contract)

About the role

• Focus: Data security, classification, and compliance alignment during migration.

What you'll do

• Define and enforce data governance policies across migrated workloads (PII, PHI, CJIS data) for Auxo's client(s).
• Establish data classification and tagging frameworks using Azure Purview / Information Protection.
• Validate that data movement and storage comply with government regulations.
• Partner with DevOps and Architect teams to integrate logging, audit, and retention into pipelines.
• Oversee RBAC and key management practices across environments.
• Partner with Principal Architect to ensure compliance inheritance and documentation for audits.
• Define KPIs for data governance readiness and support training/knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• A Bachelors' Degree in a related field, along with at least 5 years' experience in data governance and/or cloud compliance.
• Expertise in FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CJIS, or ISO 27001.
• Familiarity with Azure Policy, Purview, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel.
• Experience supporting security assessments and audit documentation.
• Excellent coordination skills between technical and compliance stakeholders.
• Experience working in Agile or hybrid project management methodologies.

Other Info

• The successful candidates may be hired as W2 contractor.
• This is a contract role, expected to last 6-12 months with possibility of extension and conversion.
• Team members must be able to adhere to working hours of 8:30am - 5:30pm EST, Monday through Friday.
• The successful candidate will undergo background checks including employment and education verifications, as well as location verifications.
• While this role is remote, infrequent travel to client sites may be needed.
• NO AGENCIES PLEASE.