Remote Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist for Aerospace

COLSA; Town of Texas (WI); Remote; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

COLSA is seeking a Senior Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist to support NASA’s NCAPS contract, helping make data across ACPO teams easier to find, understand, and trust by mapping lineage and standards. This fully remote role requires US citizenship and ability to pass a Public Trust background check.

Responsibilities include building taxonomies, defining metadata standards, onboarding datasets, and driving catalog adoption across the portfolio, with tool options like DataHub, Atlan, Collibra,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, data science, engineering, math, statistics, operations research, or a related field.
• 2–5 years of experience in data cataloging, data curation, or metadata management.
• U.S. Citizenship required; must pass NASA Public Trust background.
• Hands-on experience with data catalog platforms (DataHub/Atlan/Collibra/Alation) or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Catalog and describe the portfolio’s data with clear records for datasets.
• Build and maintain taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, a shared business glossary, and metadata standards.
• Set cataloging and metadata standards the team must follow and ensure adoption.
• Help analysts and engineers find data and understand provenance.
• Onboard new datasets and retire stale ones with provenance and classifications.
• Map data lineage end to end including sources, systems, owners, flows, and transformations.
• Evaluate options and onboard an enterprise catalog tool (DataHub, Atlan, Collibra, Alation, Purview) and integrate with sources.
• Ensure the catalog integrates with Dagster.
• Define and track metadata completeness, documentation, and freshness metrics.
• Drive catalog adoption across the portfolio.

Skills

Communication skills

Metadata understanding

Data governance

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS/Data Science/Engineering

Tools

DataHub

Atlan

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Dagster

Job description

COLSA is seeking a Senior Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist to support NASA’s NCAPS contract, helping make data across ACPO teams easier to find, understand, and trust by mapping lineage and standards. This fully remote role requires US citizenship and ability to pass a Public Trust background check.

Responsibilities include building taxonomies, defining metadata standards, onboarding datasets, and driving catalog adoption across the portfolio, with tool options like DataHub, Atlan, Collibra,