Senior Enterprise Data Governance & Metadata Lead

First American; Plano (TX); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k

PTO

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

First American is seeking an Enterprise Data Management Analyst specialized in metadata governance and data cataloging to mature governance capabilities across metadata management, data discovery, and lineage. You will curate metadata, document lineage, and support catalog adoption through collaboration with data owners, stewards, custodians, and technical teams.

The role is hands-on, focusing on practical governance processes, templates, and procedures to ensure data assets are defined, owned,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, data management, information management, business analytics, library/information science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in metadata management, data cataloging, data governance, enterprise data management, data stewardship, or related work in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of business metadata, technical metadata, operational metadata, data ownership, stewardship, data domains, CDEs, glossary terms, lineage, and catalog publication.
• Experience developing procedures, process documentation, operating routines, templates, standards, controls, validation checklists, or governance playbooks.
• Ability to interpret data structures, schemas, data dictionaries, source-to-target mappings, reporting dependencies, and system documentation.
• Technical fluency with data architecture, data integration, ETL/ELT concepts, APIs, reporting environments, and metadata ingestion concepts.
• Strong facilitation, documentation, analytical, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, including the ability to translate technical data concepts into clear business language.
• Experience producing metrics, KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, status reporting, or operational performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise metadata management across priority data domains, applications, systems, reports, data products, and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
• Help establish and maintain an authoritative view of what data exists, where it resides, how it is defined, who owns it, and how it is used.
• Administer, support, and improve data catalog and metadata management content, including catalog records, metadata templates, ownership assignments, classifications, glossary links, lineage documentation, stewardship workflows, and catalog usability.
• Develop practical procedures, playbooks, templates, intake forms, validation checklists, attestation routines, documentation controls, and operating procedures that make governance repeatable.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to validate business metadata, technical metadata, ownership assignments, glossary terms, CDEs, and lineage completeness.
• Facilitate onboarding of data sources into governance tooling for scanning, metadata ingestion, catalog publication, and lineage capture.
• Develop and maintain business glossary content, including terms, definitions, acronyms, synonyms, data-domain alignment, ownership, and relationships to governed data assets.
• Facilitate working sessions to resolve inconsistent terminology, conflicting definitions, unclear ownership, and documentation gaps.
• Document, validate, and maintain lineage for critical data flows, including source-to-target movement, transformations, downstream consumption, reporting dependencies, and business use.
• Support metadata quality controls by reviewing completeness, consistency, timeliness, ownership, glossary alignment, lineage coverage, and catalog usability.
• Coordinate review workflows, document discrepancies, elevate unresolved gaps, and help establish sustainable metadata refresh practices.
• Enable federated stewardship by helping Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Data Custodians understand and execute their metadata responsibilities.
• Prepare operational metrics and reporting for catalog coverage, metadata completeness, glossary coverage, lineage coverage, steward validation, issue aging, adoption, and usage trends.
• Support governance forums, leadership updates, audit support, risk reviews, and program performance tracking with clear, stakeholder-ready materials.
• Collaborate across business, technology, analytics, architecture, risk, audit, security, and governance teams to drive alignment without direct authority.

Skills

Metadata Mgmt

Data Catalog

Governance

Documentation

Facilitation

Stakeholder Mgmt

Data Stewardship

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Job description

First American is seeking an Enterprise Data Management Analyst specialized in metadata governance and data cataloging to mature governance capabilities across metadata management, data discovery, and lineage. You will curate metadata, document lineage, and support catalog adoption through collaboration with data owners, stewards, custodians, and technical teams.

The role is hands-on, focusing on practical governance processes, templates, and procedures to ensure data assets are defined, owned,