Metadata Management Consultant

We’re looking for a Metadata Management Consultant to help move our enterprise data governance program forward—by strengthening how our data is defined, discovered, and used across the organization.
In this role, you’ll be part of the DEA team, partnering across business and technology communities to make our Alation data catalog and Snowflake-based data ecosystem easier to navigate, more consistent, and more reliable. You’ll lead curation for key domains, enable stewardship at scale, and help shape where automation removes friction—working closely with a dedicated engineering/automation team to deliver improvements.
This is a role for someone who cares about making things better: clearer definitions, smoother workflows, stronger standards, an engaged organization, and real adoption.

What You’ll Do:

Drive domain curation and metadata quality

• Lead curation for assigned domains to ensure the business glossary, key datasets, and lineage are accurate, complete, and aligned to governance standards

• Apply consistent curation methods to keep definitions, ownership, and critical metadata current as the environment evolves

Strengthen the catalog experience

• Configure and refine catalog assets such as term hierarchies, classifications, and policies, and recommend structural improvements to make the catalog easier to use and more intuitive

• Help stakeholders find the “right data” faster by improving clarity, context, and metadata completeness

Enable stewardship and scale adoption

• Create and deliver steward training, and develop practical SOPs and playbooks that make governance easier to execute and sustain

• Consolidate curation metrics, track progress, and help guide backlog grooming with domain stewards to focus effort where it matters most

Accelerate outcomes with automation (without needing to code)

• Identify recurring pain points and help shape automation opportunities (e.g., bulk onboarding, lineage harvesting, metadata quality checks)

• Partner with a dedicated automation/engineering team—translating needs into clear requirements and helping validate outcomes—so improvements are scalable and sustainable

Operate effectively across teams

• Build alignment across a matrixed organization by being a trusted partner to data owners, stewards, analysts, engineers, and product teams

• Bring structure to ambiguity: translate business language into metadata that is consistent, searchable, and reusable

Occasional collaboration across global hours or minimal travel may be needed depending on business needs.

What We’re Looking For:

 - Bachelor's in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, Business Administration or related field with 3 or more years of relevant technical experience
 - In lieu of degree, 8 or more years of relevant technical, data, or business experience in data, analytics, or governance environments
 - Experience in data governance, metadata management, catalog tools, or data quality disciplines
 - Exposure to automation, basic scripting/SQL, or partnership with Data Engineering teams
- Relevant certifications (e.g., DAMA CDMP, data governance, or analytics tools) - Desired

What Will Set You Apart:

 - Mastery of catalog operations, curation methods, and data governance standards
 - Ability to influence without authority across a complex, matrixed organization
 - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; translates business language into structured metadata
 - Working knowledge of metadata automation patterns; familiarity with basic scripting/SQL
 - Effective communicator and collaborator who can drive stewardship alignment and scalable workflows.

Additional Details:

Relocation Available: No

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