Data Governance - Unity Catalog

The Momba Group; Des Moines (IA); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

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.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conocimientos

Databricks Unity Catalog

Metadata management

Alation experience

Platform collaboration

Power BI dashboards

Data product / data mesh

Herramientas

Power BI

Databricks

Descripción del empleo

Data Governance Catalog Steward (Unity Catalog + Alation) / Platform Stewardship

Long-term opportunity supporting enterprise data governance initiatives

Role Summary

Own end‑to‑end metadata completeness and governance adherence from post-ingestion in Databricks (raw→refined→presentation) to business consumption in Alation. This is a hands‑on, platform‑focused role that embeds with platform engineering and business teams, ensures certifiable data products, and keeps the catalog accurate and usable.

Top Outcomes (What Success Looks Like)

• Unity Catalog is standardized and reliable for data product growth (naming, tags, ownership, lineage conventions consistently applied).
• Metadata flows cleanly into Alation; priority data products are certified, owned, and discoverable with complete business context.
• Clear, business‑friendly governance standards are published and followed across teams.

Core Responsibilities (People + Platforms)

• Embed with Databricks platform and ingestion/modeling teams; attend build/prioritization meetings; guide teams to follow platform governance standards.
• Publish and maintain Unity Catalog standards (with emphasis on Refined→Presentation product readiness); monitor UC activity for adherence and remediate drift.
• Ensure all certifiable data products have complete ownership, assignments, and required 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 (e.g., Power BI over Snowflake/Databricks sources) and report progress to stakeholders.
• Audit catalog content for business completeness (domain, product, process linkage, business glossary alignment); drive remediation with Domain Stewards.
• Partner with the Data Governance Lead to define and evolve business‑friendly governance standards, policies, and playbooks; communicate updates to teams.
• Collaborate closely with the Business Domain Steward to align certification, deprecation, and status changes across UC and Alation.

Must‑Have Experience

• Deep, hands‑on Databricks Unity Catalog experience (RBAC/policies, tags, lineage, naming conventions, productization across bronze/silver/gold).
• Proven metadata management experience and familiarity with enterprise data catalogs (Alation experience preferred; strong equivalents acceptable).
• Experience working with platform/ingestion teams and translating governance requirements into day‑to‑day engineering practices.
• Ability to build/maintain adoption and completeness dashboards (e.g., 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.