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Data Catalog, Data Governance Specialist
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Data Catalog, Data Governance Specialist
NextLink Group
• Assess current-state data catalog, metadata management, and data governance capabilities. • Conduct stakeholder interviews and workshops with business and technical teams. • Identify critical data assets, metadata requirements, stewardship needs, and ownership gaps. • Analyze customer data creation, maintenance, and consumption processes. • Document key data flows, systems, dependencies, risks, and improvement opportunities. • Gather and prioritize business requirements for data catalog and governance initiatives. • Develop and recommend a practical enterprise data catalog strategy. • Define priority data catalog use cases and adoption roadmap. • Establish metadata management standards, taxonomy, classification, and onboarding criteria. • Support implementation of metadata management best practices. • Drive adoption of data catalog capabilities across business and technical communities. • Support the establishment and operationalization of enterprise data governance. • Define data domains, ownership structures, stewardship models, and accountability mechanisms. • Define roles and responsibilities for Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Custodians, Business Users, Technical Teams. • Govern and standardize key customer concepts including: Customer Lifecycle, Customer Journey, Customer Experience, Customer Interactions, Customer Value. • Ensure alignment with CRM and MDM initiatives. • Support data quality improvement initiatives. • Prepare governance documentation, assessments, evidence, and recommendations. • Identify data quality issues and recommend remediation approaches. • Support regulatory and organizational compliance requirements. • Support the design and delivery of the organization's Data Literacy Program. • Promote data culture and adoption of governance practices.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in: Data Catalog, Metadata Management, Data Governance, Enterprise Data Management.
- Proven experience implementing or managing enterprise data catalog solutions.
- Experience working with business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience establishing data ownership, stewardship, and governance frameworks.
- Experience supporting MDM and CRM initiatives is highly desirable.
- Strong knowledge of: Metadata Management, Business Glossaries, Data Lineage, Data Quality Management, Data Governance Frameworks, Data Stewardship Models, Master Data Management (MDM).
- Hands-on experience with Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) or Informatica Data Catalog is highly desirable.
- Understanding of AI readiness, responsible AI, and data foundations for AI initiatives.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Strong communication and facilitation capabilities.
- Experience conducting workshops and training programs.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to translate business requirements into practical data management solutions.
- Experience working in multicultural and international environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
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