At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the metadata strategy and enhance data governance across the organisation.
- Company: Join Ageas, a top employer in the UK with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, 35 days holiday, and a competitive salary up to £80k.
- Other info: Opportunity for career growth and development in a supportive team.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by unlocking the value of data in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Expertise in Collibra and Unity Catalog, with strong leadership and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
At Ageas, we are on a mission to unlock the full value of our data, and we are looking for an experienced Metadata Lead to play a pivotal role in making this a reality. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of our enterprise metadata capability, shaping how data is discovered, governed and trusted across the organisation.
As the Metadata Lead, you will own the vision and roadmap for our metadata tooling landscape, including Collibra and Unity Catalog, ensuring they operate as a cohesive ecosystem. Working closely with Data Owners, Stewards, IT and the wider data community, you will translate technical and regulatory needs into scalable, business-focused solutions while driving adoption, value realisation and continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity for a metadata leader ready to drive real business value through data.
Main Responsibilities as Metadata Lead:- Design, own and deliver the metadata roadmap.
- Lead Collibra and Unity Catalog configuration, rollout, and value realisation plans.
- Use metadata tooling and processes to enable the effective delivery of Data Governance & Data Quality outcomes with key stakeholders.
- Promote metadata tooling purpose and value through data forums, workshops and demos to maximise output and value from business tooling investment.
- Use metadata tooling capability to optimise and automate data governance processes and support major data migration and business integration programmes, underpinned by focussed and measurable performance metrics.
- Metadata Expertise: Collibra specialist with strong data cataloguing and lineage knowledge, as well as strong Databricks Unity Catalog experience.
- Delivery Leadership: Experience in designing and executing against delivery roadmaps that are underpinned by purposeful outcomes and value.
- Communication: Ability to translate technical solutions into clear and understandable business outcomes and value.
- Governance Focus: Excellent understanding of Data Governance/Data Quality best practice and strong experience of using metadata tooling capabilities to deliver business value.
- Coaching: Experience developing junior data governance and data quality stakeholders, with an ability to set a vision and delivery path that junior members of the team can execute against. Strong influencing skills that enable Data Owners and Stewards to be effective in the execution of their duties, putting Metadata tooling at the heart of data governance process enablement.
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve Top Employer status in the UK.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
- Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc.
- We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares.
- We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday.
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