Senior Data Management Analyst - Military veterans preferred

BRG is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.


Position Title: Senior Data Management Analyst

Location: Boston, MA | Remote - USA

Position Type: Full time

Requisition ID: JR100352

Description:

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Position Summary

The Senior Data Management Analyst helps BRG safeguard, govern, and optimize its digital information estate. In addition to supporting the full lifecycle of matter-related records, this role is the process and procedural owner of the enterprise-wide data governance and compliance platform that unifies Data Loss Prevention (DLP), information protection, insider-risk management, lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance across such platforms as Microsoft 365, Azure, on-prem, and multi-cloud environments. By combining strong records-management expertise with a robust toolset and acting as a bridge between IT and the Business Units, the Analyst ensures BRG’s data remains secure, discoverable, and compliant throughout its lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Collaboration & Training
• Act as a bridge between IT Asset Management, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure, IT Risk, Compliance, and Business Units.

• Provide user training on Purview sensitivity labels, secure collaboration practices, and record management procedures.

Matter & Records Governance
• Manage processes for the end-to-end lifecycle of matter data—from onboarding through disposition—ensuring accurate metadata tagging, retention, and defensible destruction.

• Map siloed communities of practice and develop workflows that support seamless data flow across Accounting & Finance, Legal, IT, and Business Units.

Develop DLP Strategy & Implementation
• Microsoft Purview oversight, working with the Cybersecurity team on configuration and maintenance of Purview’s DLP, Information Protection, Insider-Risk, Data Lifecycle Management, and Compliance Manager modules.

• Coordinate between the Business and Cybersecurity team to Develop policy-based controls to monitor and protect sensitive data across email, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and endpoints, integrating alerts with Microsoft Defender for incident response.

Compliance & Regulatory Support
• Align records-management and Purview configurations with GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, HITRUST, regulatory and client-specific requirements.

• Generate audit-ready reports and dashboards demonstrating control effectiveness.

Data Analysis & Reporting
• Produce ad-hoc and scheduled reports (Power BI/Excel) on matter statistics, DLP incidents, data-handling trends, and system utilization to enable continuous improvement.

Process Improvement & Automation
• Recommend enhancements to Purview policies, metadata models, and retention schedules.

• Leverage automation (Power Automate/SOAR) to reduce manual effort in provisioning, classification, and off-boarding.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Management, or related field—or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of senior-level experience and autonomy in digital records or data-governance roles with hands-on experience in a DMS or multiple repository platforms.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Purview (DLP, Information Protection, Compliance Manager) or comparable governance suites.
• Familiarity with data-cataloguing, lineage, and analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, SQL).
• Strong understanding of records-management principles, retention schedules, and legal hold processes.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (Legal, Finance, Cybersecurity) in a global enterprise environment.
• Attention to detail and excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: Microsoft Certified — Information Protection Administrator (SC-400), DLP Practitioner, ITIL, CRM, or PMP.
• Experience operating in regulated, multi-jurisdictional environments (GDPR/EU, HIPAA/US, APAC).
• Prior work on mergers, divestitures, or large-scale data-migration projects.
• Background in Azure Information Protection, or other security-orchestration platforms, and familiarity with Windows and Azure-based file and data storage systems, as well as Snowflake.

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical to provide oversite of IT’s client data catalog and BRG’s client life cycle data management in order to oversee, manage, and protect BRG’s client data.

Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the U.S., without company sponsorship.

Salary Range: $100,000-$150,000

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About BRG

BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise purpose-built for agility and connectivity, which sets us apart—and gets you ahead.

At BRG, our top-tier professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of proven real-world experience to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges for organizations across the globe.

Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking from diverse perspectives that, when paired with our global reach and resources, make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.

At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen.

BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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