Data Governance & Metadata Specialist - W2 (Local Only)

Dallas, TX, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 1 day ago
Contract W2
7 Months
No Travel Required
On-site
$50/hr
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Job Details

Skills

  • Stakeholder Management
  • Python
  • Quality Assurance
  • SQL
  • Scripting
  • Facilitation
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Meta-data Management
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Change Control
  • Data Governance
  • Data Quality
  • Semantics

Summary

Job Title: Data Governance & Metadata Specialist 
Location: Dallas TX
Duration: 6+ months
Type: Contract W2
 
 
JOB DISCRIPTION:-
 

Role Summary : Responsible for improving enterprise metadata and business-glossary coverage by combining technical metadata, governance context and AI-assisted metadata generation with human review and certification.

Required Skills

  • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Metadata Management and Business Glossary practices.
  • Hands-on experience with one or more enterprise metadata/catalog tools such as Alation
  • Working knowledge of Data Quality tools and concepts.
  • Strong SQL skills.
  • Working knowledge of Python.
  • Experience with REST APIs and metadata integration.
  • Strong understanding of technical and business metadata.
  • Ability to interpret technical schemas and translate them into business context.
  • Strong stakeholder-management and facilitation skills.

Nice to have skills

  • CDMP certification preferred.
  • Experience with Generative AI / LLM-based metadata generation.
  • Knowledge of data lineage.
  • Experience with semantic matching and metadata-quality analysis.
  • Experience in highly governed enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Extract and consolidate technical metadata from enterprise platforms.
  • Assess existing metadata and glossary coverage.
  • Identify data domains, owners and stewards.
  • Build contextual metadata packages using technical metadata, lineage and DQ information.
  • Generate and refine draft business definitions.
  • Identify duplicate, synonymous or overlapping business terms.
  • Apply confidence scoring to AI-generated metadata where applicable.
  • Route ambiguous definitions for SME review.
  • Coordinate business and steward validation.
  • Map glossary terms to technical assets.
  • Link governed data elements to business terms and physical assets.
  • Publish approved metadata into enterprise catalog/governance tools.
  • Maintain metadata gaps and stewardship queues.
  • Define metadata versioning and change-control processes.
  • Support automation using APIs and scripting.
  • Develop metadata quality and coverage metrics.
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  • Dice Id: 10109811
  • Position Id: 26-00681
  • Posted 1 day ago
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