Consulting Manager, Metadata Management

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain metadata repositories, business glossaries, data dictionaries, and governance artifacts.
• Create source-to-target mappings, transformation logic, lineage models, and traceability frameworks.
• Gather requirements, validate business rules, and translate regulatory requirements into delivery artifacts.
• Support BCBS 239 compliance, regulatory reporting, audit readiness, data quality assessments, reconciliation, and impact analysis.
• Mentor junior analysts, coordinate delivery teams, and contribute to RFPs, proposals, and client presentations.

Required qualifications

• At least 7 years in data analysis, metadata management, data governance, data lineage, or source-to-target mapping.
• Banking or financial services industry experience and extensive hands-on STTM experience.
• Expertise in metadata management, governance, lineage, cataloging, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience with regulatory programs, requirements translation, stakeholder management, data quality analysis, mentoring, and delivery coordination.
• Strong communication, documentation, and presentation skills.

Helpful experience

• Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Ab Initio, or similar metadata and governance platforms.
• Enterprise data cataloging and data lineage platforms; SQL and complex data analysis.
• Data warehousing, ETL/ELT, capital markets, regulatory reporting, proposals, and client presentations.

Work model

• Hybrid role requiring approximately 3 days per week onsite in a client or Cognizant office in Dallas, Texas, or Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• Work arrangements may change based on project, business, and client requirements.