Metadata Management Consultant

About the role

We are seeking a Metadata Management Consultant to advance our enterprise data governance program. You will work within the DEA team to improve the Alation data catalog and Snowflake‑based data ecosystem, making data easier to discover, understand, and trust across the organization.

Key responsibilities

• Drive domain curation and ensure metadata quality for assigned business domains.
• Maintain accurate business glossaries, dataset definitions, and lineage in line with governance standards.
• Configure catalog assets such as term hierarchies, classifications, and policies to improve usability.
• Create steward training, SOPs, and playbooks to scale governance adoption.
• Track curation metrics, guide backlog grooming, and prioritize improvements.
• Identify automation opportunities and work with an engineering team to define requirements and validate outcomes.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, analysts, engineers, and product teams to align on metadata standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field, or 8+ years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience in data governance, metadata management, or data quality.
• Proven ability to work in a matrixed, cross‑functional environment.

Required skills

• Alation data catalog
• Snowflake data platform
• SQL
• Basic scripting/automation

What we offer

• Opportunity to shape a modern data governance framework.
• Collaboration with dedicated automation and engineering teams.
• Flexible work arrangements with occasional global‑hour collaboration.