[Hiring] Senior Enterprise Data Management Analyst @First American

Role Description

We are seeking an Enterprise Data Management Analyst - Metadata Mgmt/Data Catalog to help mature enterprise data governance capabilities across metadata management, data discovery, data catalog operations, business glossary, lineage, and governed self-service data use. This role turns governance standards into practical operating practices.

• Work with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Data Custodians, technical teams, Risk, Information Security, and governance partners to improve the completeness, accuracy, usability, and trustworthiness of enterprise metadata.
• Curate metadata, document lineage, improve glossary content, support catalog adoption, and help stakeholders find, understand, trust, and appropriately use governed data assets.

What You Will Do

• Metadata, catalog, and governance operations:
  • Support enterprise metadata management across priority data domains, applications, systems, reports, data products, and Critical Data Elements (CDEs).
  • Help establish and maintain an authoritative view of what data exists, where it resides, how it is defined, who owns it, and how it is used.
  • Administer, support, and improve data catalog and metadata management content, including catalog records, metadata templates, ownership assignments, classifications, glossary links, lineage documentation, stewardship workflows, and catalog usability.
  • Develop practical procedures, playbooks, templates, intake forms, validation checklists, attestation routines, documentation controls, and operating procedures that make governance repeatable.
  • Partner with business and technology stakeholders to validate business metadata, technical metadata, ownership assignments, glossary terms, CDEs, and lineage completeness.
  • Facilitate onboarding of data sources into governance tooling for scanning, metadata ingestion, catalog publication, and lineage capture.
• Glossary, lineage, and metadata quality:
  • Develop and maintain business glossary content, including terms, definitions, acronyms, synonyms, data-domain alignment, ownership, and relationships to governed data assets.
  • Facilitate working sessions to resolve inconsistent terminology, conflicting definitions, unclear ownership, and documentation gaps.
  • Document, validate, and maintain lineage for critical data flows, including source-to-target movement, transformations, downstream consumption, reporting dependencies, and business use.
  • Support metadata quality controls by reviewing completeness, consistency, timeliness, ownership, glossary alignment, lineage coverage, and catalog usability.
  • Coordinate review workflows, document discrepancies, escalate unresolved gaps, and help establish sustainable metadata refresh practices.
• Stakeholder enablement and reporting:
  • Enable federated stewardship by helping Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Data Custodians understand and execute their metadata responsibilities.
  • Prepare operational metrics and reporting for catalog coverage, metadata completeness, glossary coverage, lineage coverage, steward validation, issue aging, adoption, and usage trends.
  • Support governance forums, leadership updates, audit support, risk reviews, and program performance tracking with clear, stakeholder-ready materials.
  • Collaborate across business, technology, analytics, architecture, risk, audit, security, and governance teams to drive alignment without direct authority.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, data management, information management, business analytics, library/information science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in metadata management, data cataloging, data governance, enterprise data management, data stewardship, business glossary management, lineage documentation, or closely related work in complex environments.
• Strong understanding of business metadata, technical metadata, operational metadata, data ownership, stewardship, data domains, CDEs, glossary terms, lineage, and catalog publication.
• Experience developing procedures, process documentation, operating routines, templates, standards, controls, validation checklists, or governance playbooks.
• Ability to interpret data structures, schemas, data dictionaries, source-to-target mappings, reporting dependencies, and system documentation.
• Technical fluency with data architecture, data integration, ETL/ELT concepts, APIs, reporting environments, and metadata ingestion concepts.
• Strong facilitation, documentation, analytical, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, including the ability to translate technical data concepts into clear business language.
• Experience producing metrics, KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, status reporting, or operational performance reporting.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Atlan, DataHub, BigID, IBM Knowledge Catalog, or similar data catalog, metadata management, governance, or lineage platforms.
• Working SQL knowledge and experience reviewing data dictionaries, mappings, BI/reporting metadata, lineage, or catalog completeness.
• Experience in a regulated or highly controlled environment and familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK, CDMP, ISO/IEC 11179, DCAT, or related metadata and data management standards.
• Experience supporting adjacent data management areas such as data quality, reference/master data, data architecture, BI governance, privacy, security, risk, audit, or regulatory readiness.

Requirements

• Pay Range: $85,000.00 - $113,300.00 Annually
• This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.
• First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.