Director, Data Catalog & Governance

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

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior technical leader to oversee enterprise data governance, catalog, metadata, lineage, and data-access capabilities across the organization.

You will ensure data integrity, standardization, and governance by applying industry standards and defining mapping methodologies for member and external feeds. You will set technical standards for metadata, cataloging, lineage, data quality, and access controls while partnering with privacy and security stakeholders to

Qualifications

• At least a high school diploma required; bachelor's degree in technology, data management, computer science, or a related field preferred.
• 7+ 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.

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.

Skills

Data governance

Data architecture

Metadata management

Data cataloging

Data engineering

Access governance

Data security

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology, data management, computer science, or related field

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a senior technical leader to oversee enterprise data governance, catalog, metadata, lineage, and data-access capabilities across the organization.

You will ensure data integrity, standardization, and governance by applying industry standards and defining mapping methodologies for member and external feeds. You will set technical standards for metadata, cataloging, lineage, data quality, and access controls while partnering with privacy and security stakeholders to