Description
We're Hiring: Metadata Specialist | Data Catalog AdministratorEmployment Type: Full-TimeLevel: Mid-Level to SeniorWe are looking for a detail-oriented Metadata Specialist | Data Catalog Administrator to manage enterprise metadata, maintain data catalogs, and improve the discoverability, understanding, and governance of organizational data. This role will work closely with data owners, analysts, engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to ensure data assets are accurately documented, consistently classified, and easy to find and understand. Key Responsibilities• Manage and maintain enterprise data catalogs, metadata repositories, and business glossaries.• Create, update, review, and maintain metadata for databases, applications, reports, dashboards, files, and other data assets.• Define and maintain technical, business, operational, and descriptive metadata.• Ensure data assets are accurately documented with appropriate descriptions, classifications, ownership, and usage information.• Maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, reference data, and standardized terminology.• Collaborate with data owners and subject-matter experts to capture accurate business definitions.• Identify and document relationships between datasets, systems, reports, and business processes.• Maintain data lineage information and support traceability from source systems to downstream applications and reports.• Monitor metadata completeness, accuracy, consistency, and quality across the organization.• Perform regular metadata reviews and identify outdated, missing, or inconsistent information.• Establish metadata standards, naming conventions, classification rules, and documentation guidelines.• Support data-governance initiatives by ensuring metadata aligns with organizational policies and standards.• Configure and administer data-catalog platforms and metadata-management tools.• Manage catalog structures, categories, tags, domains, user permissions, workflows, and approval processes.• Coordinate metadata onboarding for new datasets, systems, applications, and data products.• Support data discovery by improving searchability, categorization, tagging, and descriptions within the data catalog.• Work with data engineers and technical teams to capture metadata from databases, APIs, data warehouses, and data lakes.• Assist with metadata harvesting, scanning, profiling, and synchronization activities.• Document data ownership, stewardship responsibilities, sensitivity classifications, and access requirements.• Support data privacy and security initiatives by maintaining appropriate metadata classifications for sensitive information.• Assist in identifying personally identifiable information (PII), confidential data, and other sensitive data elements.• Develop metadata-quality reports, dashboards, and monitoring metrics.• Investigate metadata inconsistencies and coordinate corrective actions with relevant stakeholders.• Support data lineage, impact analysis, and dependency analysis for business and technical changes.• Assist with data migration, system implementation, cloud transformation, and data-platform projects.• Provide guidance and training to business users on data catalogs, metadata standards, and data-discovery processes.• Develop documentation, procedures, user guides, and operating standards for metadata management.• Participate in data-governance working groups and cross-functional data-management initiatives.• Identify opportunities to automate metadata collection, validation, classification, and synchronization.• Continuously improve the usability, coverage, and reliability of the organization's data catalog. Requirements• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a related field.• Proven experience in metadata management, data catalog administration, data governance, data management, or a related discipline.• Strong understanding of metadata concepts, data catalogs, data dictionaries, business glossaries, and data lineage.• Experience administering or supporting enterprise data-catalog or metadata-management platforms.• Familiarity with data governance frameworks, standards, policies, and stewardship practices.• Experience documenting technical and business metadata for enterprise data assets.• Strong understanding of databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and enterprise information systems.• Knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts is preferred.• Familiarity with APIs, ETL/ELT processes, data integration, and data pipelines is advantageous.• Experience working with cloud data platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud is beneficial.• Familiarity with data-catalog and governance tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Atlan, or equivalent platforms is advantageous.• Understanding of data lineage and data-impact analysis concepts.• Knowledge of data classification, data privacy, information security, and access-control principles.• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.• Excellent attention to detail and documentation skills.• Ability to translate complex technical data concepts into clear business descriptions.• Strong communication and stakeholder-management abilities.• Ability to work effectively with data engineers, architects, analysts, data owners, and business users.• Strong organizational and project-management skills.• Ability to manage multiple metadata-management initiatives and priorities simultaneously.• Experience with data-quality monitoring and metadata-quality improvement is beneficial.• Familiarity with data modeling, taxonomy, ontology, or semantic data concepts is advantageous.• Strong understanding of data standards, naming conventions, and controlled vocabularies.• Proactive approach to identifying metadata gaps and improving data discoverability.• Relevant certifications in data governance, metadata management, information management, or related fields are beneficial. What We Offer• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits.• Opportunity to work with enterprise-scale data platforms and information systems.• Exposure to modern data governance, metadata management, and data-catalog technologies.• Professional development in data management, data governance, analytics, and information architecture.• Training and support for relevant technical certifications.• Opportunities to participate in cloud migration, data transformation, and enterprise data initiatives.• Collaboration with experienced data engineers, architects, analysts, and governance professionals.• Opportunities to contribute to enterprise-wide data standards and governance programs.• Recognition for improving data discoverability, documentation quality, and data governance maturity.• Career progression toward Senior Metadata Specialist, Data Governance Specialist, Data Catalog Manager, Metadata Manager, or Data Governance Lead.