Metadata and Catalog Specialist

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential federal technology client in their search for a Metadata and Catalog Specialist. This is a remote position supporting a large-scale data modernization initiative. Our talent team is working with an organization delivering cloud-based solutions across multiple federal locations nationwide.

This role sits within a data governance and modernization team responsible for implementing metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage capabilities. You will establish consistent metadata practices that enable discovery and understanding of enterprise data assets across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage capabilities
• Configure, administer, and maintain data governance, catalog, metadata, and lineage platforms
• Establish metadata standards, structures, naming conventions, and management practices
• Develop and maintain enterprise and domain-level business glossaries
• Capture and maintain business, technical, operational, and governance metadata
• Establish relationships between data assets, business terms, data elements, systems, applications, reports, and data products
• Implement and maintain end-to-end data lineage across critical data assets and data flows
• Integrate metadata from source systems, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI platforms, and other data environments
• Configure metadata ingestion, scanning, classification, tagging, and discovery capabilities
• Support automated metadata harvesting and synchronization
• Implement data ownership, stewardship, certification, and approval workflows within governance platforms
• Onboard new data sources and systems into the data catalog, including configuration of automated metadata harvesting
• Configure integrations between the data catalog/metadata platform and other governance, data quality, and IT systems
• Partner with Data Governance Analysts, Data Quality Analysts, Data Architects, Data Stewards, and business stakeholders to maintain trusted metadata
• Support data discovery and self-service data access for authorized users
• Develop dashboards and reports measuring catalog adoption, metadata completeness, stewardship, lineage coverage, and governance maturity
• Monitor metadata quality and identify gaps, inconsistencies, and stale metadata
• Develop documentation, procedures, and operating standards for metadata and catalog management
• Provide training and support to Data Stewards and business users on catalog and metadata capabilities

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years of general experience in information systems and 7+ years of specialized experience
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise data governance programs
• Experience translating governance policy into practical operational processes in delivery environments
• Experience governing high-sensitivity or regulated data with clear compliance expectations
• Experience with access management and operationalizing privacy requirements
• Experience partnering with security, governance, and engineering teams to implement compliant data sharing
• Strong process mapping, documentation, and business analysis skills
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business and technical teams
• Ability to translate policy and governance requirements into clear, actionable operational procedures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including development of training and change management materials
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Federal Government or regulated environments
• Experience with enterprise data governance/catalog platforms
• Experience with enterprise data governance frameworks and operating models
• Data management certification

Technical Skills:

• Data Lake technologies
• Data Warehousing
• Enterprise Data management
• Metadata Management platforms and tools

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication and interview coordination will flow through our team to ensure the best experience for you.

Employment Details

Location: United States (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-time

Work Schedule: 40 hours per week

Travel: None required

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