Data Catalog Delivery Lead: Enterprise Governance

Huntington; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Huntington is seeking a Data Catalog Delivery Lead to drive end‑to‑end execution for the Enterprise Data Catalog. You’ll partner with Product, Metadata Governance, and Operations to ensure scalable, audit‑ready delivery and governance across design, development, and testing.

The role emphasizes user‑centered design thinking, alignment with enterprise standards, and delivering measurable outcomes such as increased adoption and metadata quality within a robust, scalable catalog ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 7+ years of experience implementing data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and controls.
• Proven experience in data governance, data privacy, and data protection.
• 2+ years hands‑on experience with Alation including configuration of workflows, stewardship models, metadata ingestion, and platform integration.

Responsibilities

• Own the execution governance model for the Design & Delivery team, ensuring adherence to defined operating processes, standards, and agile practices.
• Owns audit-ready execution, including traceability from requirements through design, development, testing, and release with documented evidence.
• Own release management processes, including alignment to enterprise change freeze calendars, readiness validation, and deployment timing.
• Plan, coordinate, and own release management processes, including readiness validation, change coordination, and deployment alignment.
• Review and challenge design decisions to ensure solutions meet enterprise expectations for scalability, governance, integration, and long‑term sustainability.
• Review testing strategies and test cases to ensure alignment with functionality, user experience, and enterprise standards.
• Own and drive Alation platform capability, including configuration, adoption, integration, and vendor engagement.
• Represent Data Catalog delivery and drive alignment across Product, Metadata Governance, and Data Safeguarding, including resolving cross‑functional conflicts.
• Own resolution of execution risks, requirement gaps, and design inconsistencies to maintain delivery commitments.
• Ensure delivery practices support long‑term scalability, audit expectations, AI readiness, and integration maturity across the catalog ecosystem.
• Accountable for driving measurable outcomes, including catalog adoption, metadata quality improvement, onboarding velocity, and audit performance.

Skills

Data governance

Alation platform

Release management

Audit & compliance

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder collaboration

Metadata governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Alation

Job description

Huntington is seeking a Data Catalog Delivery Lead to drive end‑to‑end execution for the Enterprise Data Catalog. You’ll partner with Product, Metadata Governance, and Operations to ensure scalable, audit‑ready delivery and governance across design, development, and testing.

The role emphasizes user‑centered design thinking, alignment with enterprise standards, and delivering measurable outcomes such as increased adoption and metadata quality within a robust, scalable catalog ecosystem.