Collibra Technical Specialist

Skywaves Rise; Norwich; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Skywaves Rise is seeking a senior Collibra/Data Governance Architect in Norwich to lead the governance program, design enterprise workflows, and mentor the team. You will drive Collibra BPMN/Groovy implementations, API integrations, and operational model changes to enable scalable data stewardship.

The role requires deep expertise in data governance, metadata management, and hands-on experience with Collibra workflows, edge configurations, and DIP settings.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Data Governance and Metadata Management using Collibra.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end workflows using BPMN 2.0 standard within Collibra as well as Groovy scripting.
• Translate business requirements into efficient, scalable, and reusable workflow solutions.
• Knowledge on building workflows for key governance processes such as: Business glossary curation & approval; Data assets onboarding & approval; Dataset/tags certification, rule exceptions, and waiver workflows.
• Automation use cases to handle manual tasks; Access requests & approval.
• Experience on dynamic workflow logic, including conditional routing, approvals, and exception paths.
• Implement workflows using user tasks, service tasks, timers, gateways, timer & boundary events, multi-step & multi-instance approvals, notification tasks and workflow variables.
• Knowledge on using Collibra APIs (e.g. assetapi, attributeapi) and implementation using features like dynamic user/role assignment and validation.
• Performance-tuning of workflows minimizing runtime and resource usage.

Skills

Data Governance

Collibra

Metadata Management

BPMN

Groovy scripting

APIs

Workflow design

Leadership

Training

Tools

Collibra

Snowflake

Glue

Postgres

Erwin

Qlik Sense

Job description

• Modify Collibra operating model to maintain asset/meta model for various use cases
• Collaborate with Data Governance Office, Stewards, Data Owners, and Engineering teams for various use cases.
• Engage and implement enterprise-wide data governance strategics and roadmaps, governance structures, roles, and responsibilities.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and design reviews for the team
• Involvement in governance KPIs, adoption metrics, and maturity roadmap
• Maintain data dictionaries, glossaries, and lineage documentation.
• Conduct training and awareness programs on data governance.
• Run training and playbacks, produce end-user guides, and create FAQ/runbooks.
• Knowledge on building metadata extraction and lineage extraction capabilities from various sources like Snowflake, Glue, Postgres, Erwin, Qlik Sense etc.
• Good to have knowledge on different Collibra console features, User roles & permissions setup, Dashboard readiness and edge configurations

Workflow Design & Automation

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end workflows using BPMN 2.0 standard within Collibra as well as Groovy scripting
• Translate business requirements into efficient, scalable, and reusable workflow solutions.
• Knowledge on building workflows for key governance processes such as:
• Business glossary curation & approval
• Data assets onboarding & approval
• Dataset/tags certification, rule exceptions, and waiver workflows
• Automation use cases to handle manual tasks
• Access requests & approval
• Experience on dynamic workflow logic, including conditional routing, approvals, and exception paths.
• Implement workflows using user tasks, service tasks, timers, gateways, timer & boundary events, multi-step & multi-instance approvals, notification tasks and workflow variables.
• Knowledge on using Collibra APIs (e.g. assetapi, attributeapi etc.) and implementation using features like dynamic user/role assignment and validation
• Performance-tuning of workflows minimizing runtime and resource usage

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Strong experience in Data Governance and Metadata Management using Collibra
• Must have working experience on Collibra workflows using BPMN/Groovy and APIs
• Must have working experience on modifying Collibra operating model
• Must have Collibra Ranger or Solution Architect certification
• Must having ~5 years of Collibra implementation experience that includes Collibra Edge configuration, Workflow development and Collibra DIP configurations
• Good to have knowledge on metadata and lineage extraction process
• Good to have knowledge on tools integration like Big ID, Immuta, Glue, BI tools etc,