Catalog Director

Vizient, Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. seeks a senior data-governance leader to drive enterprise catalog governance, metadata, and lineage across the organization.

You will define standards, architecture, and adoption strategies ensuring trusted data and compliant access controls, including HIPAA alignment, partnering with privacy and security teams. You will mentor engineers and analysts, oversee cross-functional delivery, and translate governance requirements into practical technical designs while advancing platform

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data governance, data architecture, metadata management, data cataloging, or related tech functions.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise data catalogs, metadata, lineage, or governance platform capabilities.
• Strong ability to translate governance requirements into technical designs, standards, and delivery plans.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise catalog-governance architecture, standards, roadmap, backlog, prioritization, and outcomes.
• Define metadata semantics, catalog standards, lineage, data classifications, governed tags, and governance platform patterns.
• Design future-state platform solutions for metadata, lineage, classification, data quality monitoring, catalog reporting, and data-access governance.
• Translate business and security requirements into technical architecture, configuration standards, and implementation plans.
• Provide direction for integrity and standardization of technical data, including member and external data feeds and industry standards.
• Define data-access control approaches in partnership with the Chief Privacy Officer and ensure HIPAA alignment.
• Lead complex initiatives across Data Governance, Cloud Ops, Data Engineering, access governance, security, privacy, and domains.
• Define acceptance criteria and validation approaches; review semantic and technical validation for governance readiness.
• Own enterprise catalog-adoption strategy and drive platform adoption and outcomes across priority domains.
• Advise stakeholders on architecture, platform capabilities, risks, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Mentor engineers, analysts, and governance practitioners in catalog, metadata, lineage, and governance delivery.
• Represent governance in architecture, platform-planning, design, and enterprise data discussions.

Skills

Data governance

Data architecture

Metadata management

Data cataloging

Data engineering

Cloud operations

Security governance

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Cross-functional teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology

High school diploma

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

Job description

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Summary:

In this role, you will provide technical leadership and oversight for enterprise data governance, catalog, metadata, lineage, and data-access capabilities across Vizient.

You will be responsible for the integrity, standardization, and technical governance of data by applying industry standards, developing mapping methodologies, and establishing consistent approaches for member and external data feeds.

You will define technical standards and platform solutions for metadata, data cataloging, lineage, classification, data quality, and access controls while partnering with the Chief Privacy Officer and other stakeholders to support data security and compliance with regulations such as HIPAA.

This role will lead technical data-governance architecture, platform adoption, cross-functional delivery, and the development of reusable standards that support trusted and secure data across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Own the enterprise catalog-governance architecture, technical direction, standards, roadmap, backlog, prioritization, and adoption outcomes.
• Define the technical representation of approved metadata semantics, catalog standards, lineage implementation standards, data classifications, governed tags, certifications, and governance-platform patterns.
• Design future-state technical platform solutions that support metadata, lineage, classification, data quality monitoring, catalog reporting, and data-access governance requirements.
• Translate business, data-governance, privacy, and security requirements into technical architecture, configuration standards, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
• Provide technical direction for the integrity and standardization of technical data, including member and external data feeds, industry standards, and data-mapping methodologies.
• Define data-access control approaches in partnership with the Chief Privacy Officer and ensure alignment with data-security requirements and regulations such as HIPAA.
• Lead complex initiatives spanning Data Governance, Cloud Operations, Data Engineering, access governance, security, privacy, and business domains.
• Define technical acceptance criteria and validation approaches; review semantic validation and technical validation to determine governance readiness before production deployment.
• Own the enterprise catalog-adoption strategy and remain accountable for platform adoption, data-governance outcomes, and continuous improvement across priority domains.
• Advise stakeholders on architecture, platform capabilities, technical risks, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Mentor engineers, analysts, and governance practitioners involved in catalog, metadata, lineage, and data-governance delivery.
• Represent the governance function in architecture, platform-planning, technical-design, and enterprise data discussions.

Qualifications:

• At least a high school diploma required; bachelor's degree in technology, data management, computer science, or a related field preferred.
• 7 or more years of experience in data governance, data architecture, metadata management, data cataloging, data engineering, or related technology functions required.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise data catalogs, metadata, lineage, data-governance, or comparable platform capabilities required.
• Strong architecture experience across technical metadata, data platforms, governance controls, integrations, data-access controls, and operating models required.
• Ability to translate business and governance requirements into technical designs, standards, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans required.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives without relying solely on formal authority required.
• Experience working with data engineering, cloud and platform operations, security, access governance, privacy, and business stakeholders required.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to executive and non-technical audiences required.
• Demonstrated ability to establish reusable standards and drive adoption across multiple teams or business domains required.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog or a comparable enterprise data-catalog platform preferred.
• Experience with lineage, metadata management, business glossaries, classification, governed tags, certification, or data-quality monitoring preferred.
• Experience integrating catalog governance with access-policy, data-security, privacy, or compliance controls preferred.
• Experience defining testing, validation, change-management, or production-readiness processes for data-governance capabilities preferred.
• Architecture, cloud, data engineering, security, privacy, or governance certifications relevant to the role preferred.

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Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00.

• Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:
• http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
• This position is also incentive eligible.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.