Metadata Analyst

HEITMEYER CONSULTING INC; Richardson (TX); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Heitmeyer Consulting is seeking a Metadata Analyst to enable trusted, well-governed data across the enterprise. You will capture, curate, and maintain high-quality metadata to support analytics, regulatory compliance, and AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with data owners, stewards, engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure data assets are well defined, documented, and easily discoverable throughout their lifecycle. Hybrid on-site role based in Richardson, TX.

Qualifications

• Experience in capturing, curating, and maintaining metadata for regulatory compliance and analytics.
• Exposure to enterprise data governance frameworks and operating models.
• Ability to translate complex data concepts into clear, business-friendly language.
• Experience collaborating with data owners, stewards, engineers, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Capture, document, and maintain business, technical, and operational metadata for enterprise data assets.
• Populate and curate the enterprise data catalog to improve discoverability and reuse.
• Partner with data owners and data stewards to define business terms and lineage.
• Support development and maintenance of the enterprise business glossary and metadata standards.
• Assist in documenting data lineage, data flows, and transformations across systems.
• Collaborate with governance, quality, architecture, and engineering teams to embed metadata practices in data delivery.
• Support data classification, sensitivity tagging, and compliance considerations.
• Monitor metadata completeness and quality; identify gaps and drive remediation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of metadata processes and governance tooling adoption.
• Provide guidance to data consumers on how to find and interpret governed data assets.

Skills

data governance

metadata management

data analysis

data concepts

data lineage

data quality

data modeling

data lifecycle management

stakeholder collaboration

documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics

Bachelor’s degree in Business

Tools

Collibra

Alation

DataHub

OpenMetadata

OvalEdge

Job description

Role Overview

Heitmeyer Consulting is looking for a Metadata Analyst who will playa key role in enabling trusted, transparent, and well?governed data across the enterprise. As part of the Enterprise Data Governance team, this position is responsible for capturing, curating, and maintaining high?quality business and technical metadata to support regulatory compliance, analytics, and AI/advanced data initiatives.

The ideal candidate partners closely with data owners, stewards, engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure enterprise data assets are clearly defined, consistently documented, and easily discoverable throughout their lifecycle. This role will be based in Richardson, TX (Dallas area) and require hybrid on-site attendance.

Required Skills & Experience

• 2–5+ years of experience in data governance, metadata management, data analysis, or data management roles
• Hands-on experience working with data catalogs or metadata management tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, DataHub, OpenMetadata, OvalEdge, or similar)
• Strong understanding of data concepts, including data lineage, data quality, data modeling, and data lifecycle management
• Experience collaborating with both technical teams (data engineering, architecture) and business stakeholders
• Strong analytical, organizational, and documentation skills with high attention to detail
• Ability to translate complex technical data concepts into clear, business?friendly language
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Nice?to?Have Skills

• Experience supporting regulatory, risk, privacy, or compliance?driven data initiatives
• Familiarity with enterprise data governance frameworks and operating models
• Exposure to cloud data platforms and modern data architectures
• Experience supporting analytics or AI enablement through well?governed metadata
• Relevant certifications such as DAMA?CDMP, Collibra, Alation, or similar

Job Responsibilities

• Capture, document, and maintain business, technical, and operational metadata for enterprise data assets, including datasets, reports, pipelines, and data products
• Populate and curate the enterprise data catalog to improve data discoverability, understanding, and reuse
• Partner with data owners and data stewards to define business terms, data definitions, lineage, and usage context
• Support the development and ongoing maintenance of the enterprise business glossary and metadata standards
• Assist in documenting data lineage, data flows, and transformations across systems and platforms
• Collaborate with data governance, data quality, architecture, and engineering teams to embed metadata practices into data delivery processes
• Support data classification, sensitivity tagging, and compliance requirements, including regulatory, privacy, and risk considerations
• Monitor metadata completeness and quality; identify gaps and drive remediation efforts
• Contribute to continuous improvement of metadata processes, templates, and governance tooling adoption
• Provide guidance and support to data consumers on how to find, interpret, and use governed data assets

Heitmeyer Consulting is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to minority status, gender, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.