Specialist, Metadata

The Metadata Specialist is responsible for maintaining, enhancing, and governing enterprise metadata to support data discovery, lineage, governance, and analytics across the bank. The role ensures accurate and standardised metadata to enable trusted data usage, regulatory compliance, and improved data quality. Support the execution of Metadata strategies in line with Enterprise Metadata policies and frameworks to ensure data has context, is easily accessible, and there is high-quality and integrated metadata.

Responsibilities

Maintain enterprise metadata standards, definitions, and business glossaries; Ensure compliance with data governance policies and regulatory requirements; Create, update, and maintain metadata within enterprise data catalog tools (e.g., Azure Purview / Microsoft Purview); Support automated and manual metadata ingestion processes; Document system, technical, and business metadata for structured and unstructured data assets; Ensure that metadata updates are in line with the governance processes defined by the owners / stewards of the data; Give input into possible data element governance violations in order that the appropriate governance structure is advised; Support the adoption of AI-powered tools to automate metadata capture, classification, and enrichment, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy; Contribute to the development of sematic models, ontologies and knowledge graphs to enable advanced data discovery, lineage tracking and AI explainability; Develop and maintain end-to-end data lineage for critical data flows; Apply data classification rules based on sensitivity, privacy, and regulatory requirements

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in information management, Computer Science, Data Science, Library Science, or related fields; 3–6+ years of experience in Metadata Management, Data Governance, or Data Management roles; Experience with metadata catalog tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica); Familiarity with data lineage, business glossary development, and data quality management

Nice to have

Professional certifications in Data Governance, i.e. Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), Certified Information Management Professional (CIMP) or related Data Management, or Azure Purview can be an advantage