Senior Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist - Remote

COLSA; Georgia; Remote; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Education & Certification Reimb.

Job summary

COLSA is seeking a Senior Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist to support NASA NCAPS, ACPO, and the DIISC team. You will map data lineage, establish a shared catalog and metadata standards, and drive adoption across the portfolio.

Role focuses on cataloging data assets, defining metadata models, and enabling trust across datasets while integrating with DataHub/Collibra/Alation and Dagster for orchestration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 2–5 years in data catalog, metadata, or data curation roles.
• U.S. Citizenship; ability to undergo a security background check.
• Hands-on experience with a data catalog platform (DataHub/Atlan/Collibra/Alation/etc.).
• Ability to embed with a data team and capture lineage and metadata accurately.
• Strong metadata standards, taxonomies, and data dictionaries.
• Proven ability to drive catalog adoption across teams.

Responsibilities

• Catalog and describe datasets with clear, consistent records for discovery.
• Develop taxonomies, vocabularies, a glossary, and metadata standards.
• Define catalog and metadata standards and promote adoption.
• Help analysts and engineers find data, understand provenance and limitations.
• Onboard new datasets and document provenance, ownership, and sensitivity.
• Map end-to-end data lineage across sources and transformations.
• Collaborate to select and deploy an enterprise data catalog tool and integrate with sources.
• Ensure integration with the data orchestration tool Dagster and track metadata metrics.

Skills

Data catalog

Metadata management

Data governance

Data lineage

Stakeholder comms

Data architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

DataHub

Atlan

Collibra

Alation

Microsoft Purview

Amundsen

Informatica

Dagster

Job description

COLSA is seeking a Senior Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist to support NASA NCAPS, ACPO, and the DIISC team. You will map data lineage, establish a shared catalog and metadata standards, and drive adoption across the portfolio.

Role focuses on cataloging data assets, defining metadata models, and enabling trust across datasets while integrating with DataHub/Collibra/Alation and Dagster for orchestration.