Metadata & Data Catalog Architect

DAI Consultancy; Doha; On-site; QAR 328,000 - 473,000; Full time

Job summary

DAI Consultancy seeks a Metadata & Data Catalog Consultant to help clients make data understandable, discoverable and governable, establishing metadata standards, glossaries, inventories and lineage that connect business meaning with technical assets.

You will assess glossaries, define metadata requirements, develop standards, facilitate business workshops and plan tooling adoption for successful catalog implementation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in information systems, library/information science or data management.
• Typically 3-7 years in metadata, catalog, information architecture or data governance.
• Experience developing glossaries, data dictionaries, inventories, lineage or catalogue content.

Responsibilities

• Define metadata standards, naming conventions, definitions and ownership rules.
• Facilitate business-glossary workshops and reconcile terms.
• Create and quality-review dataset, attribute and catalogue entries.
• Document lineage and connect metadata to models, rules and authorities.
• Plan metadata migration, onboarding, integration and adoption activities.

Skills

Business glossary

Metadata standards

Catalog tools

Lineage

Data modeling basics

Stakeholder facilitation

Semantic precision

Taxonomy thinking

Detail orientation

Eliciting requirements

Education

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

Tools

Catalogue platforms

Metadata ingestion

Tool evaluation

Implementation planning

Job description

DAI Consultancy seeks a Metadata & Data Catalog Consultant to help clients make data understandable, discoverable and governable, establishing metadata standards, glossaries, inventories and lineage that connect business meaning with technical assets.

You will assess glossaries, define metadata requirements, develop standards, facilitate business workshops and plan tooling adoption for successful catalog implementation.