Metadata and Catalog Specialist

your Jared; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

your Jared is seeking a Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist to support the AO CMM program, modernizing governance across 204+ federal courts in the United States. Location: Any Location / Remote.

GDIT-led initiative focuses on data governance, cataloging, lineage, and AI/ML capabilities to enable self-service analytics. The role requires 7+ years of specialized experience in metadata and governance, with collaborative work across data stewards, security, and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years of information systems experience.
• 7+ years of specialized experience in metadata or data governance.
• Experience supporting enterprise data governance programs.
• Ability to translate governance policy into operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Implement metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage.
• Configure and maintain data governance, catalog, metadata, and lineage platforms.
• Establish metadata standards, naming conventions, and management practices.
• Develop enterprise and domain-level business glossaries.
• Capture business, technical, operational, and governance metadata.
• Create relationships between data assets, terms, data elements, and systems.
• Enable end-to-end data lineage across critical data assets and flows.
• Integrate metadata from source systems, DWs, data lakes, APIs, and BI tools.
• Configure metadata ingestion, scanning, tagging, and discovery.
• Support automated metadata harvesting and synchronization.
• Implement data ownership, stewardship, certification, and approval workflows.
• Onboard new data sources and configure automated harvesting.
• Integrate catalog with governance, data quality, and IT systems.
• Ensure metadata reflects definitions, classifications, ownership, and retention.
• Partner with analysts, stewards, and stakeholders to maintain trusted metadata.
• Support data discovery and self-service access for authorized users.
• Develop dashboards measuring catalog adoption, completeness, and governance maturity.
• Monitor metadata quality and identify gaps or stale metadata.
• Improve metadata management and data discovery capabilities.

Skills

Data Lake

Data Warehousing

Enterprise Data

Metadata Management

Education

MA/MS degree

Job description

Metadata and Catalog Specialist

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: Any Location / Remote

Full Part/Time: Full time

Job Qualifications

Skills

Data Lake, Data Warehousing (DW), Enterprise Data, Metadata Management

Certifications

None

Experience

7 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required

No

Job Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program. The CMM program is an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO) in developing a modern cloud-based solution to support all 204+ federal courts across the United States.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist will be part of the CMM Data Modernization and Governance team responsible for delivering an integrated data governance, engineering, data platform, reporting, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill AO's data and analytics objectives in support of the CMM program.

The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and operating CMM's metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage capabilities to accelerate CMM modernization efforts. The role establishes consistent metadata practices, enables discovery and understanding of enterprise data assets, and configures and manages governance platforms, catalogs, metadata repositories, and related tooling that make enterprise data discoverable, well-defined, and traceable, enabling effective governance, data quality, and self-service data use across the organization.

The Metadata & Data Catalog Specialist will execute the following responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain metadata management, business glossary, data catalog, and data lineage capabilities.
• Configure, administer, and maintain data governance, catalog, metadata, and lineage platforms.
• Establish metadata standards, structures, naming conventions, and management practices.
• Develop and maintain the enterprise and domain-level business glossary.
• Capture and maintain business, technical, operational, and governance metadata.
• Establish relationships between data assets, business terms, data elements, systems, applications, reports, and data products.
• Implement and maintain end-to-end data lineage across critical data assets and data flows.
• Integrate metadata from source systems, databases, data warehouses, data lakes, APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, BI platforms, and other data environments.
• Configure metadata ingestion, scanning, classification, tagging, and discovery capabilities.
• Support automated metadata harvesting and synchronization where appropriate.
• Implement data ownership, stewardship, certification, and approval workflows within governance platforms.
• Support onboarding new data sources and systems into the data catalog, including configuration of automated metadata harvesting and scanning.
• Configure integrations between the data catalog/metadata platform and other governance, data quality, and IT systems.
• Ensure metadata accurately reflects data definitions, classifications, ownership, sensitivity, retention, and other governance attributes.
• Partner with Data Governance Analysts, Data Quality Analysts, Data Architects, Data Stewards, and business stakeholders to maintain trusted metadata.
• Support data discovery and self-service data access for authorized users.
• Develop dashboards and reports measuring catalog adoption, metadata completeness, stewardship, lineage coverage, and governance maturity.
• Monitor metadata quality and identify gaps, inconsistencies, and stale metadata.
• Support integration between catalog, governance, data quality, security, privacy, and enterprise architecture capabilities.
• Develop documentation, procedures, and operating standards for metadata and catalog management.
• Provide training and support to Data Stewards and business users on catalog and metadata capabilities.
• Continuously evaluate and improve metadata management and data discovery capabilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years of general experience in information systems and 7+ years of specialized experience.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting enterprise data governance programs.
• Experience translating governance policy into practical operational processes in delivery environments.
• Experience governing high-sensitivity or regulated data with clear compliance expectations.
• Experience with access management and operationalizing privacy requirements.
• Experience partnering with security, governance, and engineering teams to implement compliant data sharing.
• Strong process mapping, documentation, and business analysis skills.
• Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across business and technical teams.
• Ability to translate policy and governance requirements into clear, actionable operational procedures.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including development of training and change management materials.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Federal Government or regulated environments.
• Experience with enterprise data governance/catalog platforms.
• Experience with enterprise data governance frameworks and operating models.
• Data management certification.

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Travel Required

None

Telecommuting Options

Remote

Work Location

Any Location / Remote

Total Rewards at GDIT

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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