FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Principal Metadata Management Lead to work for our client within the Data & Analytics / Data Governance sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London.
Our client is seeking a Principal Metadata Management Lead who will be accountable for defining and designing, implementing through natural teams, and scaling enterprise metadata management and data governance capabilities. This role will ensure data, analytics, and AI assets are discoverable, trusted, governed, and reusable across the organisation, enabling regulatory compliance, value from data, and AI data readiness.
You will act as an established thought leader on metadata, cataloguing, and governance design, with a strong focus on enterprise tooling including Collibra Enterprise Data Catalogue, Databricks Unity Catalog, and the evolution of enterprise catalogue, access, and metadata analytics including CAT and FOX.
Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve enterprise metadata management strategy, standards, and operating model.
- Maintain governance frameworks for data, analytics, and AI assets, including ownership and stewardship models.
- Lead the evolution of the Enterprise Data Catalogue into a primary enterprise entry point (CAT) for discovering, understanding, and accessing data and reporting.
- Articulate the positioning, architecture, and value of the Enterprise Data Catalogue, aligning business metadata, reporting, and technical catalogues.
- Expand catalogue capabilities to support access standardisation and automation, frictionless stewardship, unstructured data cataloguing, and semantic models to enable AI ready data.
- Drive platform integrated approaches and AI solutions to reduce manual onboarding and improve metadata freshness and maintenance.
- Act as delegate Product Owner for CAT, capturing business feedback and translating it into an evergreen backlog aligned to the natural team roadmap.
- Support the design and delivery of FOX, consolidating metadata analytics across platforms and sources to derive insights, reduce costs, and drive efficiencies.
- Partner with stakeholders across business and technology, leading workshops, demos, and enablement sessions to drive adoption and literacy.
- Define KPIs and success measures for metadata coverage, quality, and adoption, and author playbooks and standards to support continuous improvement.