Principal, Metadata & Data Catalog

Overview:

As a Principal, Metadata & Data Catalog, you will lead small, collaborative teams to design and deliver enterprise-wide data catalog solutions. You will be responsible for understanding the client's current environment, technical and business challenges, and data governance/management maturity. By assessing the current state, you can propose solutions which incorporate technology, ways of working, data literacy, governance, and change.

Responsibilities:

• Use existing knowledge and experience with metadata management & data catalog technologies and leading practices to evaluate existing solution implementations, provide alternatives/trade-offs, and recommend technical/functional areas to raise the client's metadata management maturity.

• Own the creation and execution of the enterprise metadata strategy and roadmap; define the target architecture, and integration patterns across the ecosystem.
• Lead cross-functional teams to implement, configure, and operationalize enterprise data catalog solutions, accountable for the delivery of the solution to the client.
• Communicate delivery progress tailored to key stakeholders including C-suite, serving as point of contact for issues and resolving risks as needed.
• Build trusted relationships across the client organization; navigate constraints and escalate appropriately.
• Contribute to thought leadership (reference architectures, accelerators, case studies) and strategic pursuits.
• As time allows, participate in pre-sales activities including helping define an approach to solving a prospect's technical challenges and helping the business development team estimate and plan projects to address those challenges.
• Support and guide team members in the following activities:

+ Configure and enhance enterprise data catalogs in alignment with data governance frameworks to enable users to discovery, trust, and understand data (Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Microsoft Purview; Snowflake Horizons, Databricks Unity Catalog as needed). + Ingest technical metadata and lineage from data platforms, ETL/ELT tools, and reporting tools; able to support ingestion of sources through native connectors and custom integrations. + Develop and maintain APIs and connectors for synchronization across data platforms, including integrations with data quality, master data management (MDM), and access governance technologies (e.g., Collibra DQ, BigID, Immuta) and enterprise SSO/LDAP. + Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish stewardship models and governance processes. + Customize governance workflows, lineage tracking, and business glossary features to meet client-specific needs. + Design user experiences within catalog solutions to search, browse, and access data, often tailoring personas experiences to analysts, engineers, and stewards. + Develop adoption playbooks, enablement materials, and KPIs; deliver training and office hours to drive usage.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years in data/analytics with 5+ years leading metadata programs; ownership of complex solution outcomes.

• Expertise with operating models, ROI/value measurement, and executive stakeholder management.
• Experience applying AI/agents to metadata curation and governance at scale.
• Contributions to playbooks/accelerators and pre-sales solutioning.
• Hands-on configuration and administration of Collibra/Alation/Atlan/Purview; experience with taxonomy, glossary, stewardship workflows.
• Working knowledge of technical metadata ingestion and integration across cloud data platforms and ETL/ELT tools.
• Proficiency in RESTful APIs, scripting (Python, JavaScript), and data integration tools
• Ability to communicate across perspectives and encourage clear decision-making with teams and clients.

Benefits:

• Meaningful time off and paid holidays

• Parental leave
• 401(k) with a match
• Range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage
• Adoption and fertility assistance
• Short/long-term disability
• Yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses
• Discounted home, auto, and pet insurance

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