Metadata Specialist | Data Catalog Administrator

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise data catalogs, metadata repositories, and business glossaries.
• Create, update, review, and maintain metadata for databases, applications, reports, dashboards, files, and other data assets.
• Define and maintain technical, business, operational, and descriptive metadata, including descriptions, classifications, ownership, and usage information.
• Maintain glossaries, dictionaries, reference data, and standard terminology; capture accurate definitions from data owners and subject-matter experts.
• Document dataset, system, report, and process relationships; maintain lineage and traceability from source systems to downstream assets.
• Monitor metadata completeness, accuracy, consistency, and quality; review records and coordinate corrections.
• Establish metadata standards, naming conventions, classification rules, and documentation guidelines aligned with governance policies.
• Configure and administer catalog platforms, including catalog structures, tags, domains, permissions, workflows, and approvals.
• Coordinate onboarding for datasets, systems, applications, and data products; improve catalog searchability and discovery.
• Work with technical teams to capture metadata from databases, APIs, warehouses, and lakes; assist with harvesting, scanning, profiling, and synchronization.
• Maintain ownership, stewardship, sensitivity, and access metadata; support privacy, security, and identification of sensitive data.
• Develop quality reports, dashboards, procedures, and user guides; support analysis, projects, training, governance initiatives, and automation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, 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 understanding of metadata, catalogs, dictionaries, glossaries, lineage, governance, stewardship, and enterprise data assets.
• Experience administering or supporting enterprise catalog or metadata-management platforms and documenting technical and business metadata.
• Strong understanding of databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and enterprise information systems.
• Understanding of lineage, impact analysis, data classification, privacy, information security, and access control.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, attention-to-detail, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills; able to manage multiple initiatives.

Preferred and advantageous knowledge

• SQL and relational database knowledge is preferred.
• APIs, ETL/ELT, integration, pipelines, and cloud data platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud are advantageous or beneficial.
• Catalog tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Atlan, or equivalent are advantageous.
• Data-quality monitoring and improvement are beneficial; data modeling, taxonomy, ontology, or semantic data familiarity is advantageous.

What the employer offers

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits; no salary amount or cadence is stated.
• Professional development, certification training, and opportunities to work with enterprise-scale data platforms and governance technologies.
• Opportunities to contribute to cloud migration, data transformation, and enterprise data initiatives and standards.
• Career progression possibilities include Senior Metadata Specialist, Data Governance Specialist, Data Catalog Manager, Metadata Manager, or Data Governance Lead.