Senior Collibra Architect & Data Governance Lead

Ibexlabs LLC.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ibexlabs LLC is seeking a senior Collibra Developer / Data Governance Engineer to lead design, implementation, and support of governance solutions on the Collibra platform. This hands-on leadership role pairs configuration expertise with governance strategy, standards, and mentoring across governance, engineering, business, and technology teams.

The role owns the technical direction for data governance—improving data quality, discoverability, ownership, and compliance at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Data Governance, Metadata Management, or Data Management, with significant hands-on Collibra ownership.
• Deep hands-on experience with the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud platform.
• Proven configuration of Collibra Data Catalog, Business Glossary, Data Governance, and workflows.
• Strong command of governance concepts: data ownership, data stewardship, metadata management, data lineage, data quality, business glossary, and data classification.
• Experience designing and building Collibra REST API / web-service integrations.
• Strong SQL and relational database skills.
• Experience with data warehouses, data lakes, or cloud data platforms.
• Experience with API-based integrations and JSON/XML.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale governance programs and mentoring technical teams.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and executive-presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, configuration, and maintenance of Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud components across licensed modules (Catalog, Lineage, Quality, Privacy).
• Architect and govern Collibra operating models — communities, domains, asset types, attributes, relations, and responsibilities — aligned to the enterprise governance strategy.
• Design, develop, and maintain Collibra workflows, business rules, and governance processes, including complex Groovy-based logic.
• Define and drive the data governance and metadata management strategy, standards, and adoption roadmap.
• Own data cataloging, data lineage, data classification, and data stewardship programs end to end.
• Architect and build integrations between Collibra and enterprise data platforms, catalogs, and metadata sources using Collibra REST APIs, Java APIs, and web services, plus harvesting (Connect/JDBC, Lineage Harvester, Edge).
• Partner with data engineering teams to onboard technical and business metadata at scale.
• Lead data ownership, stewardship, glossary management, and policy implementation across business units.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex Collibra configuration, workflow, integration, and performance issues; establish preventive standards.
• Translate business data governance requirements into scalable technical solutions, and communicate trade-off to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Mentor and guide developers and analysts; lead design reviews and raise the team's technical bar.
• Drive testing, deployment, documentation, and production support, ensuring solutions meet organizational data management and compliance standards.

Skills

Collibra ownership

Data Governance

SQL skills

REST API integrations

Data Catalog

Data Lineage

Java/Groovy

Cloud platforms

Data quality

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Collibra DIC

REST/JSON/XML

Relational databases

Job description

Ibexlabs LLC is seeking a senior Collibra Developer / Data Governance Engineer to lead design, implementation, and support of governance solutions on the Collibra platform. This hands-on leadership role pairs configuration expertise with governance strategy, standards, and mentoring across governance, engineering, business, and technology teams.

The role owns the technical direction for data governance—improving data quality, discoverability, ownership, and compliance at enterprise scale.