Metadata Analyst / Consultant

First San Francisco Partners•Oakland, CA

7d•Remote

About The Position

First San Francisco Partners (FSFP) is a leading business advisory and information management consultancy dedicated to helping organizations leverage their data to improve strategic decision-making, reduce risk, create operational efficiencies and fuel unprecedented business success. Our consulting services include data management, data governance, Collibra (data governance and data quality software) implementation/adoption, data architecture, data quality, master and reference data management, metadata management and data privacy. FSFP serves clients throughout the U.S., including large consumer brands, notable financial institutions and other organizations who want to make their information (data) actionable. FSFP’s culture is centered on teamwork and a shared passion for what we do. We believe in treating clients (and one another) with respect and delivering measurable results for clients. Our FIRST values (Focus, Integrity, Resourcefulness, Skillfulness and Teamwork) guide our interactions. First San Francisco Partners is seeking both employees and contractors for the Metadata Analyst role. This role is responsible to design, implement, and oversee establishment and delivery of enterprise Metadata solutions. We are looking for a positive highly effective communicator that can lead without authority and has a passion for engaging with business, IT and C-suite stakeholders on Data Management projects to join our Delivery team remotely. Priorities change quickly within a consulting business, and we need someone who can recognize these changes and proactively shift work assignments to support the company. This position reports to the Director of Delivery and Operations and will collaborate and support our consultants and clients.

Requirements

BA/BS or advanced degree in Business/Computer Science/MIS or related field, or equivalent work experience
3 - 5 years’ experience in Information Management: Data or Enterprise Architecture, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Warehousing and Business Analytics
Familiarity with Business glossary, data dictionary, data catalog and data lineage
Experience in business analysis: gathering data, synthesizing information, forming insights and providing feedback
Experience with Metadata tools, such as Collibra, Alation, Purview
Excellent attention to detail, a passion for quality work and the ability to communicate at various levels
Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

Assess, define, and optimize various metadata management processes and standards such as business metadata definitions and technical metadata requirements
Recommend new use cases. processes and standards as needed
Support identification, prioritization, approach to remediate existing metadata.
Deliver ongoing remediation cycle for prioritized business and technical metadata
Support review and approval of extracted current metadata with relevant Business Data Stewards, Business SME’s, Data Custodians, etc., to review, validate, change, enhance, and update metadata documentation
Support ingestion of updated and approved metadata into metadata tools
Create and deliver metadata awareness, education, training, and communication materials
Participate in business development, proposal creation and the contracting process
Supports the development of project deliverables, synthesizes findings and integrates them into strategic-level deliverables
Provides overall accountability for logistics within metadata engagement
Provides quality assurance review of all metadata deliverables
Documents and analyzes results from meetings, researches and reviews relevant documents
Captures and documents business, functional and technical requirements
Files all project artifacts and deliverables and maintains document inventory
Facilitates required interactions and meeting sessions
Works on tasks as directed by the Engagement Lead
Coordinates the scheduling of meetings and develops, distributes and stores project artifacts, work papers and deliverables