IT Data Catalog Lead| |

Position Title: IT Data Catalog Lead

Work Location: Fully Remote

Why is this position open? Company is Growing Quickly

Summary: The IT Data Management & Governance organization is uniquely positioned to power world-class technologies that enable end-to-end data management and advanced analytics. The Data Catalog Lead will drive IT initiatives for the implementation and adoption of the Data Catalog system as the central metadata repository of key applications and databases. You will partner with Data Governance and IT teams to identify and catalog data sets, manage metadata, derive data lineage and own the Data Catalog platform. The candidate will do hands on design, prototyping and build of data catalog & metadata capabilities, working with data engineers, solution architects and business partners. Data Catalog Lead will develop a keen understanding of data & analytics value added business opportunities and factor this insight into design decisions and recommendations for data catalog implementation. Data Catalog Lead will forge collaborative partnerships across data governance, data & analytics and IT teams to build and scale the organization's use of data and advanced analytics technologies to optimize solutions to meet customer requirements and solve business problems.

Responsibilities:

• Lead all aspects of metadata management and data catalog product ownership enabling findable, accurate & reliable metadata across the business domains.
• Enable operations of the catalog platform including operational monitoring, user access, configuration and customization, management & evolution of data catalog and platform upgrades.
• Configure and maintain metadata connection scanners to source systems and databases in order to catalog data lineage within systems as well as end to end lineage based upon business process.
• Establish & maintain standard, advanced and custom metadata connection scanners across the AB digital landscape to extract, catalog and manage metadata
• Develop and publish catalog metrics and usage, measure & drive adoption
• Ensure design, implementation and integration for data governance solutions provides a seamless and streamlined user experience for data catalog, data glossary and data quality systems.
• Work closely with the business teams for data governance and IT teams to understand needs of the business; clearly articulating the story of value created through data cataloging technology.

Required Skills:

• Two (2) or more years of hands-on experience with one or more data catalog platforms (Alation, Informatica, Collibra, etc.)
• Two (2) or more years of experience managing data & metadata, data stewardship and/or data governance across various business domains
• Demonstrated strength in examining issues, driving resolution & influencing effectively across the organization.
• Ability to challenge the status quo in technology & architecture.
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills (oral and written), including the ability to explain digital concepts and technologies to business teams, as well as business concepts to IT teams.
• Experience with visualization and dashboarding software Power BI, Tableau etc.
• Consistent attention to detail and ability to assess impact of design or configuration changes prior to implementation
• Proven track record leading multiple high-profile projects on time while accommodating changing requirements, and working with defined resources.
• Ability to estimate required effort and prioritize work items appropriately.
• Agile methodology practitioner; ability to define and implement prototypes and MVPs / RATs, experience working in Scrum/Kanban is preferred.
• Strong leadership capabilities with the ability to work well independently as well as within a team oriented environment

Education: Undergraduate degree in Technology, Computer Science, applied data sciences or other related fields; advanced degree in related fields preferred

Selling point of the job: Company is growing extremely fast great opportunity to grow from within.

Work Hours and Schedule: Normal Business Hours

Dress code: Business Casual