Data Catalog & Metadata Strategy Consultant

Employment; Doha; On-site; QAR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Employment seeks a Metadata & Data Catalog Consultant to help clients make their data understandable, discoverable and governable. You will establish metadata standards, business glossaries, data inventories and catalogue entries, linking business meaning with technical assets.

You’ll work with stakeholders to define required metadata and how quality is monitored, and may evaluate catalogue tools with client-approved decisions.

Qualifications

• Assess existing glossaries, inventories, dictionaries, catalogues and metadata-management practices.
• Facilitate business-glossary workshops and reconcile duplicate, ambiguous or conflicting terms. Build or quality-review dataset, attribute, system, report, interface and data-product catalogue entries.
• Document business and technical lineage and connect metadata to models, rules, controls and authoritative sources. Define stewardship workflows for creation, review, approval, publication, maintenance and retirement of metadata.
• Support metadata-quality checks, issue management, completeness reporting and periodic review. Gather functional and non-functional requirements for catalogue technology and evaluate tool options transparently.
• Plan metadata migration, onboarding, integration and adoption activities for selected tools or platforms. Develop guidance, demonstrations and role-based training for business and technical users.
• Transfer catalogue administration and stewardship routines to client teams with clear documentation.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing glossaries, inventories, dictionaries, catalogues, models, lineage records and metadata-management practices. Define business, technical and operational metadata requirements and minimum mandatory fields. Develop metadata standards, naming conventions, definitions, ownership rules and quality criteria.
• Facilitate business-glossary workshops and reconcile duplicate, ambiguous or conflicting terms. Build or quality-review dataset, attribute, system, report, interface and data-product catalogue entries.
• Document business and technical lineage and connect metadata to models, rules, controls and authoritative sources. Define stewardship workflows for creation, review, approval, publication, maintenance and retirement of metadata.
• Support metadata-quality checks, issue management, completeness reporting and periodic review. Gather functional and non-functional requirements for catalogue technology and evaluate tool options transparently.
• Plan metadata migration, onboarding, integration and adoption activities for selected tools or platforms. Develop guidance, demonstrations and role-based training for business and technical users.
• Transfer catalogue administration and stewardship routines to client teams with clear documentation.

Skills

Business glossary

Metadata standards

Catalog tools

Lineage

Data modeling basics

Stakeholder facilitation

Semantic precision

Taxonomy thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems, library/information science, data management or a related field

Tools

SQL

Catalogue platforms

Job description

Employment seeks a Metadata & Data Catalog Consultant to help clients make their data understandable, discoverable and governable. You will establish metadata standards, business glossaries, data inventories and catalogue entries, linking business meaning with technical assets.

You’ll work with stakeholders to define required metadata and how quality is monitored, and may evaluate catalogue tools with client-approved decisions.