EDC / Axon SME (Informatica) – Data Governance & Data Catalog Engineer

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– Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About Us

Informatica Axon & Data Governance

• Configure and administer

Informatica Axon Data Governance

• including domains, operating model, roles (Data Owner/Steward/Custodian), governance policies, and workflow approvals.
• Design and implement
• business glossary
• , critical data elements (CDEs), policies, standards, controls, and stewardship processes.
• Drive governance operating routines: stewardship councils, issue triage, governance KPIs, and adoption reporting.
• Define and maintain
• governance workflows
• (certification, approval, issue management) and ensure auditability.

Informatica Edc (Enterprise Data Catalog)

• Implement and manage

Informatica Edc

• scanning, metadata ingestion, classification, and catalog curation.
• Configure scanners/connectors for key enterprise sources (e.g., RDBMS, ETL tools, BI tools, cloud platforms).
• Enable and troubleshoot
• data lineage
• (technical & business) and impact analysis across systems.
• Optimize catalog search, tagging, domains, and asset relationships to improve data discoverability and reuse.

Integration & Enablement

• Integrate Axon ↔ EDC metadata synchronization and ensure alignment between business glossary and technical metadata.
• Collaborate with data engineering, ETL, BI, security, and architecture teams to onboard new platforms and datasets into the catalog.
• Define
• onboarding playbooks
• , standards, and templates for data asset registration and stewardship.
• Conduct user training sessions for business and technical teams to drive governance and catalog adoption.

Support & Continuous Improvement

• Provide L2/L3 SME support for production issues, upgrades, performance, and enhancements.
• Participate in release planning, regression testing, and validation for Axon/EDC upgrades and patches.
• Build dashboards/metrics to track catalog coverage, glossary completeness, stewardship effectiveness, and lineage availability.

Core Technical Skills (Must Have)

• Strong hands-on experience with

Informatica Axon Data Governance

Informatica Edc

• .
• Proven capability in
• data governance implementation
• , business glossary setup, stewardship models, and workflows.
• Experience with
• metadata management
• , data cataloging, classification, and
• end-to-end lineage
• .
• Working knowledge of
• RDBMS concepts
• , SQL fundamentals, and enterprise data ecosystems (DW/Lake/Lakehouse).
• Ability to troubleshoot scanner runs, connectivity, metadata extraction, and Axon-EDC synchronization issues.

Governance & Domain Skills

• Strong understanding of
• data governance frameworks
• , policies/standards, and operating models.
• Experience engaging stakeholders (Data Owners, Stewards, Compliance, Risk, Security) to drive adoption.
• Knowledge of
• data quality
• , reference/master data concepts, and controls is an advantage.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management (business + technology).
• Strong documentation skills (standards, SOPs, onboarding guides).
• Ability to lead workshops, training, and governance forums.

Preferred And Nice-To-Have Skills

• Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), Informatica MDM, Informatica Cloud/Data Integration exposure.
• Experience integrating catalog/governance with tools like

Servicenow And Jira

• , BI platforms, or cloud data platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Knowledge of
• banking/BFSI domain
• , regulatory and compliance considerations (data privacy, retention, audit).
• Exposure to

Collibra And Alation

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