Senior Remote Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist

Colsa; Alabama; Hybride; USD 100 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Résumé du poste

COLSA Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist to support NASA NCAPS, ACPO, and the DIISC team. The role focuses on making data easier to find, understand, and trust by mapping lineage, establishing a shared catalog, and driving metadata standards across the portfolio.

The position is fully remote, open to US residents, with a salary range of $100,000–$110,000 per year. Candidates must have 2–5 years of relevant experience and citizenship for NASA Public Trust

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, data science, engineering, math, statistics, operations research, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2–5 years of experience in a data librarian, research data services, data curation, metadata, or data catalog role.
• U.S. Citizenship required; must be able to undergo a background investigation for a position of NASA Public Trust.
• Hands-on experience running a data catalog or metadata management platform (e.g., DataHub, Atlan, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or Amundsen), or equivalent experience managing a metadata repository or catalog.
• Ability to embed with the data team and understand its work to capture lineage and metadata accurately and earn the team’s trust.
• Strong command of metadata standards, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and data dictionaries.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of a catalog, standard, or shared data practice across multiple teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and program audiences.

Responsabilités

• Catalog and describe the portfolio’s data by creating clear, consistent, searchable records for datasets so users can find what exists, understand what it is, and determine whether they can use it.
• Build and maintain taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, a shared business glossary, and descriptive metadata and documentation standards.
• Set the cataloging and metadata standards the data team must follow and help ensure consistent adoption.
• Help analysts, engineers, and program staff find the right data, interpret it correctly, and understand its provenance and limitations.
• Onboard new datasets and retire stale ones by documenting provenance and ownership, applying sensitivity and CUI classifications, and identifying data-quality concerns.
• Map the portfolio’s data lineage end to end, including sources, systems, owners, flows, transformations, and downstream consumers.
• Work with the team’s manager to select and onboard an enterprise data catalog tool (DataHub, Atlan, Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview, etc.), including evaluating options and integrating it with portfolio data sources.
• Ensure the catalog integrates effectively with the team’s data orchestration tool, Dagster.
• Define and track metadata completeness, documentation, and freshness metrics.
• Drive catalog adoption across the portfolio and serve as a point of contact for what data exists and how it should be described and used.

Connaissances

Data cataloging

Metadata management

Data lineage

Data governance

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, data science, engineering, math, statistics, OR

Outils

DataHub

Atlan

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Amundsen

Dagster

Description du poste

COLSA Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist to support NASA NCAPS, ACPO, and the DIISC team. The role focuses on making data easier to find, understand, and trust by mapping lineage, establishing a shared catalog, and driving metadata standards across the portfolio.

The position is fully remote, open to US residents, with a salary range of $100,000–$110,000 per year. Candidates must have 2–5 years of relevant experience and citizenship for NASA Public Trust