Data Governance Platform Steward: Unity Catalog & Alation

The Momba Group; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Momba Group seeks a Data Governance Catalog Steward to own metadata completeness from Databricks ingestion through to business consumption in Alation. This hands-on role partners with platform and business teams to ensure certifiable data products and an accurate catalog.

Success requires standardized Unity Catalog practices, robust metadata flow into Alation, and clearly published governance standards followed across teams, with strong ownership and domain tagging.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Databricks Unity Catalog experience with RBAC, tags, lineage, naming conventions.
• Experience with enterprise data catalogs; Alation preferred; strong equivalents acceptable.
• Experience translating governance requirements into day-to-day engineering practices with platform teams.
• Ability to build adoption and completeness dashboards (Power BI) and drive follow-through with technical teams.
• Prior experience standing up or maturing Unity Catalog and/or Alation at scale.
• Exposure to data product / data mesh operating models and certification workflows.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Databricks platform and ingestion/modeling teams; guide teams to follow platform governance standards.
• Publish and maintain Unity Catalog standards; monitor UC activity for adherence and remediate drift.
• Ensure all certifiable data products have complete ownership, assignments, and metadata in Unity Catalog and Alation.
• Monitor and maintain UC→Alation metadata flow; resolve connection issues; ensure domain tags, owners, and governance attributes transfer and remain complete.
• Track catalog completeness/adoption metrics and report progress to stakeholders.
• Audit catalog content for business completeness and glossary alignment; drive remediation with Domain Stewards.
• Partner with the Data Governance Lead to define and evolve governance standards, policies, and playbooks.
• Collaborate with the Business Domain Steward to align certification, deprecation, and status changes across UC and Alation.

Skills

Databricks Unity Catalog

Metadata management

Alation experience

Platform collaboration

Power BI dashboards

Data product / data mesh

Tools

Power BI

Databricks

Job description

The Momba Group seeks a Data Governance Catalog Steward to own metadata completeness from Databricks ingestion through to business consumption in Alation. This hands-on role partners with platform and business teams to ensure certifiable data products and an accurate catalog.

Success requires standardized Unity Catalog practices, robust metadata flow into Alation, and clearly published governance standards followed across teams, with strong ownership and domain tagging.