Data Consultant - Open Metadata/Collate AI

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Data Consultant for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Rutherford, NJ.

Responsibilities :

• Manage and leverage their data effectively by ensuring proper metadata is created, maintained, and utilized across various systems.
• Work with data teams and stakeholders to establish metadata standards, improve data discovery, data lineage, data quality, and enhance data governance practices using Open Metadata solutions.
• Metadata Strategy and Implementation: Develop and implement metadata management strategies, including defining metadata standards, naming conventions, and business definitions in line with organizational policies.
• Metadata Creation and Enrichment: Oversee the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of metadata across multiple platforms and systems, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Data Discovery and Governance: Facilitate data discovery by improving metadata quality and consistency, and support data governance initiatives through metadata management.
• Data Lineage and Impact Analysis: Assist in defining and managing data lineage, identifying relationships between data elements across systems, and supporting impact analysis.
• Training and Support: Provide training and support to teams on metadata tools and best practices, promoting a data-centric culture within the organization.
• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with data owners, stewards, architects, and technology teams to ensure alignment on metadata management practices and drive data stewardship.
• Tooling and Technology: Utilizes and potentially contributes to OpenMetadata metadata management platform, integrating them with various data tools and technologies like Airflow, Snowflake, and others.
• Specific Tasks May Include:
  • Managing metadata repositories or databases, data models.
  • Enhancing existing metadata to improve accuracy, completeness, and usefulness.
  • Adding and optimizing keywords, correcting errors, and linking related items.
  • Ensuring the quality and integrity of metadata through validation and consistency checks.
  • Documenting metadata standards, policies, and procedures.
  • Participating in data quality initiatives and identifying metadata inconsistencies.
  • Developing reports and dashboards on data governance activities.
  • Integrating applications or systems.
  • Use of Open Metadata / Collate AI Platform
  • Data quality
  • Data observability
  • Data governance
• Acts as a bridge between technical and business teams, ensuring that data is well-understood, easily discoverable, and governed effectively, ultimately contributing to better data-driven decision-making for POC and other project work.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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