Data Governance (Steward/Collibra/Lineage)

EY; India; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior/Manager Metadata (Stewardship) & Quality Consultant to lead data quality, metadata management, cataloging and governance across the data landscape in India. You will build frameworks, enable trusted data assets and drive self-service discovery for business stakeholders.

The role emphasizes collaboration with business and technology teams, delivering measurable outcomes through governance, data quality rules, profiling, lineage, and stewardship workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop data quality management frameworks, rules, scorecards, and monitoring mechanisms.
• Perform data profiling, quality assessment, issue analysis, and remediation planning.
• Design and operationalize data catalog management, metadata standards, and business glossary practices.
• Manage technical metadata, lineage, data inventory, and data asset certification processes.
• Drive data discovery, data classification, and sensitive data inventory initiatives.
• Implement stewardship workflows, ownership models, and governance-enabled catalog processes.
• Support data marketplace enablement and self-service data discovery use cases.
• Support reference data management and master data management initiatives where applicable.

Tools

Colibra

Atlan

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Informatica

BigID

Job description

EY-Consulting - Data and Analytics - Metadata (Stewardship) & Quality Consultant - Senior / Manager

EY's Consulting Services is a unique, industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services that leverage deep industry experience with strong functional and technical capabilities and product knowledge. EY's financial services practice provides integrated Consulting services to financial institutions and other capital markets participants, including commercial banks, retail banks, investment banks, broker-dealers & asset management firms, and insurance firms from leading Fortune 500 Companies. Within EY's Consulting Practice, Data and Analytics team solves big, complex issues and capitalise on opportunities to deliver better working outcomes that help expand and safeguard the businesses, now and in the future. This way we help create a compelling business case for embedding the right analytical practice at the heart of client's decision-making.

Role

Metadata (Stewardship) & Quality Consultant

Experience Guide

Senior: 5-9 years

Primary Skill Area

Metadata Management, Data Quality, Catalog & Lineage

The opportunity

Drive trusted, discoverable, and usable data through data quality management, metadata management, business glossary, technical metadata, lineage, cataloging, stewardship, discovery, classification, and data asset certification practices.

Your key responsibilities

• Develop data quality management frameworks, rules, scorecards, and monitoring mechanisms.
• Perform data profiling, quality assessment, issue analysis, and remediation planning.
• Design and operationalize data catalog management, metadata standards, and business glossary practices.
• Manage technical metadata, lineage, data inventory, and data asset certification processes.
• Drive data discovery, data classification, and sensitive data inventory initiatives.
• Implement stewardship workflows, ownership models, and governance-enabled catalog processes.
• Support data marketplace enablement and self-service data discovery use cases.
• Support reference data management and master data management initiatives where applicable.

Skills and attributes for success

Skill / capability area

Details

Data Quality Management

Required capability

Data Quality Rules

Required capability

Profiling & Monitoring

Required capability

Data Catalog Management

Required capability

Metadata Management

Required capability

Business Glossary

Required capability

Technical Metadata

Required capability

Data Lineage

Required capability

Data Discovery

Required capability

Data Classification

Required capability

Data Stewardship

Required capability

Data Inventory

Required capability

Data Asset Certification

Required capability

Data Marketplace

Required capability

Reference Data Management

Required capability

Master Data Management

Required capability

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Relevant experience guide: Senior: 5-9 years.
• Senior: 5-9 years

Ideally, you'll also have

• Collibra
• Atlan
• Microsoft Purview
• Alation
• Informatica
• BigID
• Data quality and profiling tools

What we look for

• A governance professional who can define practical operating models, drive adoption across business and technology teams, and translate governance controls into measurable delivery outcomes.

What working at EY offers

At EY, we're dedicated to helping our clients, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasises high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you