Senior Data Catalog & Governance Leader

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

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. seeks a Catalog Director to provide technical leadership for enterprise data governance, catalog, metadata, and lineage across the organization. You will drive standards, platform adoption, and secure data access in compliance with HIPAA.

In this role you will partner with privacy, security, and business stakeholders to translate governance requirements into scalable architectures, mentor engineers, and deliver reusable data-governance patterns across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technology, data management, computer science, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in data governance, data architecture, metadata management, data cataloging, or related tech.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise data catalogs and governance platforms.
• Ability to translate governance requirements into technical designs and standards.
• Strong communication to explain trade-offs to executives.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise catalog-governance architecture, standards, roadmap, backlog, prioritization, and adoption outcomes.
• Define metadata semantics, catalog standards, lineage implementation standards, data classifications, governed tags, certifications, and governance-platform patterns.
• Design future-state platform solutions for 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

Cloud operations

Security & privacy

Communication skills

Education

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

High school diploma

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

Job description

Vizient, Inc. seeks a Catalog Director to provide technical leadership for enterprise data governance, catalog, metadata, and lineage across the organization. You will drive standards, platform adoption, and secure data access in compliance with HIPAA.

In this role you will partner with privacy, security, and business stakeholders to translate governance requirements into scalable architectures, mentor engineers, and deliver reusable data-governance patterns across multiple teams.