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Metadata Specialist | Data Catalog Administrator
D&M Law Office
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Metadata managementData catalog administrationData governanceBusiness glossaries and data dictionariesData lineage and impact analysisMetadata quality management
Role Overview
Full-time Metadata Specialist / Data Catalog Administrator role managing enterprise metadata, data catalogs, and data discoverability and governance.
Works with data owners, analysts, engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to document, classify, and make data assets understandable and findable.
Key Skills for This Role
Metadata managementData catalog administrationData governanceBusiness glossaries and data dictionariesData lineage and impact analysisMetadata quality management
Full Job Posting
Role overview
Full-time Metadata Specialist / Data Catalog Administrator role managing enterprise metadata, data catalogs, and data discoverability and governance.
Works with data owners, analysts, engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to document, classify, and make data assets understandable and findable.
Catalog and metadata operations
- Manage catalogs, metadata repositories, and business glossaries; maintain metadata for databases, applications, reports, dashboards, files, and other data assets.
- Define technical, business, operational, and descriptive metadata, including descriptions, classifications, ownership, and usage information.
- Maintain glossaries, dictionaries, reference data, standardized terminology, and documented relationships between datasets, systems, reports, and processes.
- Maintain lineage and traceability from source systems to downstream applications and reports.
Governance, quality, and discovery
- Monitor metadata completeness, accuracy, consistency, and quality; conduct reviews and coordinate correction of outdated, missing, or inconsistent information.
- Establish standards, naming conventions, classification rules, and documentation guidelines aligned with data-governance policies.
- Administer catalog structures, categories, tags, domains, permissions, workflows, and approvals; coordinate onboarding of datasets, systems, applications, and data products.
- Improve searchability, categorization, tagging, descriptions, and data discovery; support metadata harvesting, scanning, profiling, and synchronization.
Technical and stakeholder support
- Work with technical teams to capture metadata from databases, APIs, data warehouses, and data lakes.
- Document ownership, stewardship, sensitivity classifications, and access requirements; help identify personally identifiable, confidential, and other sensitive data.
- Develop metadata-quality reports, dashboards, procedures, user guides, and operating standards; provide user guidance and training.
- Support lineage, impact, and dependency analysis, data migrations, implementations, cloud transformations, and cross-functional governance initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to automate metadata collection, validation, classification, and synchronization, and improve catalog usability and reliability.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a related field.
- Proven experience in metadata management, catalog administration, data governance, data management, or a related discipline.
- Strong knowledge of metadata concepts, catalogs, dictionaries, glossaries, lineage, and enterprise data assets; experience documenting business and technical metadata.
- Experience administering or supporting enterprise catalog or metadata-management platforms and familiarity with governance frameworks, policies, standards, and stewardship.
- Strong understanding of databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and enterprise information systems.
- Knowledge of data classification, privacy, information security, access control, data standards, naming conventions, and controlled vocabularies.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, communication, stakeholder-management, organizational, and project-management abilities; able to explain technical data concepts clearly.
Preferred and advantageous qualifications
- SQL and relational database concepts are preferred; APIs, ETL/ELT, data integration, and data pipelines are advantageous.
- Cloud data platform experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud is beneficial.
- Catalog tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Atlan, or equivalent are advantageous.
- Data-quality monitoring and metadata-quality improvement are beneficial; data modeling, taxonomy, ontology, or semantic data familiarity is advantageous.
- Relevant certifications in data governance, metadata management, information management, or related fields are beneficial.
What the employer offers
- Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits; opportunity to work with enterprise-scale data platforms and modern governance technologies.
- Professional development, training support for relevant certifications, and participation in cloud migration, data transformation, and enterprise data initiatives.
- Career progression opportunities toward senior metadata, data governance, catalog management, metadata management, or data governance lead roles.
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