Data Catalog & Lineage Lead

Johnson Controls•Glendale, AZ

3d•$135,000 - $155,000

About The Position

The Data Catalog & Lineage Lead leads enterprise metadata management, data catalog, and data lineage programs. The role establishes and governs the processes, standards, technologies, and operating models needed to provide comprehensive visibility into organizational data assets. Working with Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, Security, and Business Data Owners, the Lead delivers trusted metadata, business context, data lineage, impact analysis, and data discovery capabilities. The role is the primary steward of enterprise metadata and lineage strategy, ensuring data assets are discoverable, understandable, governed, and traceable throughout their lifecycle. The Lead develops enterprise metadata strategy and governance, defines standards for business, technical, operational, and process metadata, and creates roadmaps for catalog, lineage, and metadata capabilities. Responsibilities include implementing and improving catalog platforms; cataloging assets across data systems and platforms; maintaining business-friendly descriptions; and improving discoverability, self-service, and user adoption. The role defines lineage standards and implements end-to-end business and technical lineage to support change impact analysis and root cause analysis. The position partners with governance teams to establish stewardship responsibilities, metadata quality standards, ownership, and accountability, and monitors metadata completeness and accuracy. It leads enterprise business glossary development, works with subject matter experts to standardize terminology and resolve conflicting terms, and supports modernization initiatives through impact assessments. The role also supports regulatory, privacy, audit, classification, sensitive-data identification, retention, and traceability requirements, provides lineage evidence for audits, facilitates governance councils and stewardship forums, and drives adoption of metadata best practices. The position requires a bachelor's degree in a related field, at least eight years of relevant experience, and at least three years leading metadata, catalog, or lineage initiatives. The listed salary range is $135,000–$155,000, with a competitive bonus plan and benefits package.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Management, or a related field.
At least 8 years of experience in data management, data governance, analytics, data architecture, or engineering.
At least 3 years of experience leading metadata, catalog, or lineage initiatives.
Proven success implementing enterprise catalog and lineage solutions.
Experience working with large-scale cloud data platforms.
Experience with one or more of Microsoft Purview, Apache Atlas, or Horizon Catalog in Snowflake.
Knowledge or experience with Snowflake, Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and SQL Server.
Knowledge or experience in business glossaries, data stewardship, metadata management, data classification, data lineage, data discovery, and master data management.
Skills in SQL, data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, data architecture, impact analysis, and root cause analysis.
Leadership competencies including metadata management expertise, data governance leadership, data architecture knowledge, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, business process analysis, influence and change leadership, communication and facilitation, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Big Four experience with PwC, Deloitte, EY, or KPMG.
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP).
Microsoft Purview Certification.
DAMA-DMBOK knowledge.
TOGAF certification.
Experience supporting AI and machine learning governance.
Experience implementing metadata automation solutions.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the enterprise metadata management strategy, standards, governance processes, and capability roadmap.
Promote metadata-driven decision-making across the organization.
Lead implementation and enhancement of enterprise data catalog platforms.
Create processes for cataloging data assets across databases, warehouses, lakes, BI platforms, analytical datasets, and APIs.
Maintain business-friendly data descriptions and documentation, and improve discoverability, self-service, and catalog adoption.
Define enterprise data lineage standards and implement end-to-end lineage across source systems, ETL/ELT pipelines, data platforms, reporting, and AI/ML environments.
Maintain business and technical lineage views and enable impact analysis and root cause analysis.
Partner with Data Governance teams to define metadata stewardship, quality standards, ownership, and accountability.
Monitor metadata completeness and accuracy and ensure alignment with governance, compliance, and audit requirements.
Lead development and maintenance of enterprise business glossaries; standardize terminology, define authoritative definitions, and resolve duplicate or conflicting terms.
Support application, platform, and data modernization initiatives with impact assessments for schema changes, pipeline modifications, platform migrations, and reporting updates.
Enable proactive risk management through lineage analysis.
Support regulatory, privacy, and audit requirements, including data classification, sensitive-data identification, retention, and traceability.
Provide lineage evidence during audits and compliance reviews.
Collaborate with governance, quality, architecture, engineering, data product, analytics, security, and compliance teams.
Facilitate metadata governance councils and stewardship forums and drive enterprise adoption of metadata best practices.