Enterprise Metadata Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain the enterprise metadata architecture supporting the organization’s catalog-of-catalogs environment.
• Enforce metadata standards.
• Work with Data Architecture and Engineering to collect, ingest, and harmonize across heterogeneous metadata sources.
• Ensure the enterprise catalog remains aligned with enterprise data architecture and semantic models defined by the data architecture function.
• Work with the Data Management Platform Lead to configure and manage the enterprise catalog implemented on Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog.
• Design and maintain the enterprise catalog asset model, including: metadata object types, attributes and metadata schema, hierarchical relationships, classification structures, domain organization.
• Manage metadata ingestion pipelines from multiple platforms including data platforms, modeling tools, and operational systems.
• Support onboarding new metadata sources into the catalog environment.
• Enforce enterprise metadata standards and taxonomy structures.
• Establish governance processes for metadata lifecycle management including creation, certification, stewardship, and retirement.
• Ensure metadata assets comply with enterprise governance policies and standards.
• Design and implement metadata quality controls to ensure catalog accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Define metrics and monitoring processes to assess metadata quality across domains.
• Support the design integration patterns that allow enterprise metadata to be consumed by downstream applications including data platforms, analytics environments, and governance tools.
• Maintain metadata synchronization mechanisms and crosswalks across heterogeneous metadata sources.
• Support automation of metadata ingestion, lineage capture, and metadata propagation.

Required Skills/Experience

• 7-10 years experience in metadata management or data management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or related field. A Master’s degree is highly desirable.
• Proven experience working with data catalogs, preferably Informatica Cloud Data Management is preferred.
• Experience integrating data catalog with multiple database management systems and file storage technologies.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python.
• Experience in designing and managing taxonomies and asset models for managing metadata.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with Agile.