Principal Metadata Management Lead in London

Exciting opportunity for a Principal Metadata Management Lead to join this global Energy company.

This is an exciting time to join this world‑leading Energy company as it evolves from a traditional Oil & Gas enterprise into a future‑focused Energy leader.

The Principal Metadata Management Lead is accountable for defining, designing, implementing, and scaling enterprise metadata management and data governance capabilities. The role ensures that data, analytics, and AI assets are discoverable, trusted, governed, and reusable across the organisation, enabling regulatory compliance, deriving value from data, and ensuring AI‑data readiness.

The role acts as an established thought leader on metadata, cataloguing, and governance design, with a strong focus on enterprise tooling capabilities, namely: Collibra Enterprise Data Catalogue (EDC), Databricks Unity Catalogue, and the evolution of enterprise catalogue, access, and metadata analytics.

Essential Experience:

• Extensive experience in enterprise data governance and metadata management
• Deep hands‑on expertise with Collibra Enterprise Data Catalogue (EDC)
• Strong understanding of data platforms, APIs, and metadata integration patterns
• Strong facilitation, communication, and storytelling skills translating complex ideas or concepts to a general audience
• Experience in working in varied natural teams
• Proven ability to operate as a senior individual contributor influencing at scale

This needs combining with a positive attitude and an ability to work within a large, globally dispersed project team in a multi‑cultural environment. You also need to be a self‑starter, a logical thinker and a quick learner, with strong initiative and excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, able to write clearly and concisely.

We believe in equality of opportunity for all job applicants regardless of gender, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, creed or religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.

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