Data Catalog and Business Metadata Advisor

Job Title: Data Catalog and Business Metadata Advisor

Location: Connecticut

Duration: Contract

Job Description:

• 4+ years of experience cataloging data (metadata) from discovery to organization and enrichment across the entire data ecosystem. Ideally within large and complex data environments, typically found in fortune 1000 organizations.
• 4+ years working with Business stakeholders to understand and represent business needs in requirements and onboarding to data governance platforms
• 4+ years of experience with Data Governance products and platforms (Ideally Collibra products) guiding Metadata functionality and development of both structured and unstructured data

Overview:

• Work with data governance products to assist Product Owner(s) with guiding functionality and content development with our business and engineering partners.
• Works daily with our delivery team partners to gain functionality to harvest technical metadata.
• Works daily with our data stewards and data owners to onboard and train on data governance platforms and concepts.

Preferred Background:

• Experience (4+ years working experience) with data governance, technical or business metadata.
• Strong ability to work and assist the user community with onboarding to data governance platforms.
• Understanding of a variety of data source platforms, structured and semi-structured data.
• Ability to understand and represent business needs in requirements, track and resolve progress and issues, provide timely updates and escalations.
• Experience with Collibra data governance products, Healthcare Industry data and/or data governance regulations and controls is a plus.

Competencies and Skills:

• Ability to lead functional development and tool on boarding meetings documenting decisions and issues
• Ability to translate business data governance requirements into technical requirements to meet multiple business needs
• Strong analytical, creative problem solving, and process management skills.
• Ability to work with various data owners and provide data governance concepts.
• Ability to plan and prioritize own work effectively to achieve set end results.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent oral, written & presentation communication skills.
• Ability to accept ambiguity, open to new ideas; willing to test and fail; and attempt new processes.
• Ability to influence peers and subordinates to modify behaviors and provide support for the Implementation and adoption of data governance and metadata strategy and practices.
• Ability to work independently and as a part of a team with a positive attitude for team goals.
• Ability to deal with multiple time zones.
• Proactive flexible attitude with a desire to learn new skills in the growing field of data governance.
• Experience with Collibra Data Intelligence Center desired.
• Agile Experience a plus

Tooling: Excel, SQL knowledge, Experience with Data Governance Tools (Collibra) or similar desired Education: Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related discipline