[Hiring] Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist @COLSA

Role Description

COLSA is seeking a Senior Data Catalog & Metadata Specialist to support NASA’s Consolidated Applications and Platform Services (NCAPS) contract, specifically supporting NASA’s Aerospace Capabilities Portfolio Office (ACPO) and its Digital Innovation & Integration Service Capability (DIISC) team. This role will make data across ACPO’s teams, tools, and centers easier to find, understand, and trust by mapping data lineage, establishing a shared data catalog and metadata standards, and driving adoption across the portfolio.

This is a fully remote position open to candidates residing in the United States, excluding the following states: AR, CT, DE, HI, IA, KS, MT, NE, NJ, NY, RI, SD, VT, WV, and WY.

• Catalog and describe the portfolio’s data by creating clear, consistent, searchable records for datasets.
• 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 Controlled Unclassified Information (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, including evaluating options, standing up the platform, defining the metadata model, 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, where it resides, and how it should be described and used.

Benefits

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