Metadata Specialist

Job Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented Metadata Specialist to support the organization's data governance and metadata management initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating, validating, maintaining, and auditing metadata to ensure consistency, accuracy, and compliance with organizational and international metadata standards.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with metadata management, data cataloging, controlled vocabularies, and metadata mapping within enterprise or government environments. This role plays a critical part in improving data discoverability, interoperability, and quality across organizational data assets.

Key Responsibilities

Metadata Management

• Create, validate, and maintain metadata records for enterprise datasets.
• Ensure metadata is accurate, complete, consistent, and aligned with organizational standards.
• Support the lifecycle management of metadata, including updates, revisions, and version control.
• Maintain metadata repositories and data catalogs.

Metadata Standards & Quality

• Apply internationally recognized metadata standards and best practices.
• Validate metadata entries for compliance with governance policies and quality requirements.
• Conduct regular metadata quality audits and recommend corrective actions.
• Identify metadata gaps, inconsistencies, and duplicate records.

Metadata Mapping & Cataloging

• Perform metadata mapping between source and target systems to ensure consistency and interoperability.
• Verify metadata accuracy during data integration, migration, and publishing processes.
• Maintain controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, classifications, and business glossaries.
• Support metadata harmonization across multiple data sources and platforms.

Data Governance Support

• Collaborate with Data Stewards, Data Quality Analysts, Data Curation Leads, and technical teams to improve metadata quality.
• Support enterprise data governance initiatives by implementing metadata standards and governance policies.
• Assist in developing metadata documentation, procedures, and operational guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with organizational data governance and regulatory requirements.

Reporting & Documentation

• Prepare reports on metadata quality, compliance, and audit findings.
• Document metadata standards, mapping rules, validation procedures, and governance processes.
• Support stakeholder training and awareness regarding metadata best practices.

Required Technical Skills

• Metadata Management
• Metadata Validation
• Metadata Mapping
• Data Catalog Management
• Metadata Quality Assurance
• Controlled Vocabularies
• Taxonomy & Classification Management
• Business Glossary Management
• Metadata Standards Implementation
• Data Governance
• Information Management
• Data Documentation
• Microsoft Excel and Office Suite
• SQL (Preferred)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science, Library Science, Data Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in metadata management, data cataloging, information management, or related roles.
• Experience working with enterprise metadata repositories or catalog systems.
• Familiarity with internationally recognized metadata standards.