Technical Delivery Manager, Metadata Management & Data Lineage

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cogni zant Technology Solutions Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. seeks a Technical Delivery Manager to lead data governance initiatives, metadata management, and data lineage programs. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, translate business requirements into actionable plans, and drive tool selection and implementation.

You will oversee lifecycle management, ensure quality, manage vendors, and communicate with stakeholders to deliver compliant data solutions across on-premise and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience implementing data governance solutions, on-premise and cloud.
• Proficiency with metadata management tools and data lineage technologies.
• Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies and data integration platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of data governance initiatives and metadata management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into project plans.
• Oversee tool selection, POCs, and integration of metadata management solutions.
• Manage end-to-end data lineage across multiple technologies and platforms.
• Establish KPIs and maintain documentation, risk controls, and training inputs.

Skills

Data governance

Metadata management

Data lineage

Project leadership

Vendor management

Stakeholder communication

Quality assurance

Tools

Informatica IDMC

IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Collibra

Alation

Solidatus

IBM Manta

Hadoop

Teradata

SAS

Oracle

MS SQL

Postgres

Cassandra

Informatica PowerCenter

SSIS

Job description

Key Responsibilities

As Technical Delivery Manager (TDM) for Data Governance initiatives, you will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring the successful implementations. The role involves coordinating with cross-functional teams, understanding business requirements, and ensuring the alignment of technical solutions with data governance objectives. Key responsibilities for this role are:

• Project Leadership: Lead planning, execution, and delivery of Business Glossary, Metadata management and Data lineage solution, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Requirements Analysis: Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into actionable project plans.
• Tool Selection and Implementation: Oversee selection and implementation of metadata management tool, ensuring it meet the organization's needs and integrate effectively with existing systems. Conduct POCs involving new data technologies. Prioritize implementation scope for incremental coverage; Independently install, customize and integrate software packages and programs. Maintain and recommend software improvements to ensure a platform centric management of software applications
• Lifecycle Management: Manage full lifecycle of metadata management and data lineage initiatives, from conception and design to implementation, maintenance, and optimization of end to end data lineage extraction; provide remediation for broken data lineage across multiple technologies, products and platforms. Review & deliver documents such as solution design, program specifications for target solutions
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data stewards, IT professionals, and business analysts, infrastructure & information security teams, to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach to metadata management and data lineage; Create frameworks, technical features which helps in establishing end to end data lineage for Critical Data Elements
• Quality Assurance : Implement quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy, consistency, performance & SLA monitoring and completeness of metadata and data lineage information in SIT, UAT and production environment
• Vendor Management: Coordinate with vendors providing metadata management solutions, overseeing their contributions to the successful implementation of the projects.
• Project Management & Risk Management: Plan, execute, and deliver metadata management and data lineage projects within scope, on time, and within budget. Identify and mitigate risks associated with metadata management and data lineage projects, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Training and Documentation: Provide inputs for training programs and ensure documentation to enhance understanding and adoption of metadata management and data lineage best practices within the organization.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the performance of metadata management and data lineage initiatives, making adjustments as needed to meet objectives.
• Stakeholder Communication: Maintain transparent and effective communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, challenges, and resolutions. Convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in simple ways.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives, staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance Business Glossary, Metadata management and Data lineage capabilities within the organization.

Job Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in implementing data governance solutions with a strong background in deploying such solutions, encompassing both on-premise and cloud-based models.
• Metadata Management Tools: Proficiency in using metadata management tools such as Informatica IDMC, IBM Cloud Pak for Data or equivalent tools (Collibra, Alation, Solidatus)
• Data Lineage Tools: Experience with data lineage tools like Informatica IDMC, IBM Manta or similar solutions to establish and visualize end-to-end data flows. Identify and build both business and technical lineage, including strategies for fixing lineage breaks
• Database Technologies: In-depth knowledge of various database technologies, including but not limited to Hadoop, Teradata, SAS, Oracle, MS SQL, Postgres, and Cassandra DB.
• ETL/ELT Tools: Expertise in ETL/ELT tools like Informatica PowerCenter, SSIS, and other data integration platforms to understand and document transformation logic.
• Scripting and Programming: Proficient in scripting languages (e.g., Stored Procedures, Bteq scripts, Spart ETL, Python ) and programming languages to support metadata extraction and manipulation.
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and their services relevant to metadata management and data governance. Strong background in addressing security considerations for cloud-based implementatio