Metadata Management Specialist

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa eSoft Development and Technologies Full time

**areas**:

- Develop tactical strategies and related action plans specific to metadata.
- Develop and manage stakeholder relations effectively to promote data sharing and metadata awareness across the organisation and to support reliable decision-making.
- Define useful metadata for business as well as approach for metadata management within the data virtualisation platform.
- Create, maintain, and integrate a metadata environment that enables the sharing and standardisation of business information.
- To identify unknown (and useful) datasets and potentially remove duplication in existing/future collection processes.
- Maintain and support metadata for the data virtualisation tool as well as facilitate enhancements thereon.
- Define business terms, taxonomy, rules and develop business dictionaries/glossaries to create a common understanding of business terms for the business Group and its relevant stakeholders.
- Determine the usage and treatment of business terms as they relate to business operations and functions to create a common understanding thereof.
- Develop controls for business terms to support reliable decision-making.
- Make regular metadata quality checks and provide improvement suggestions where issues are identified as well as ensure that security is maintained.
- Enable the improvement of metadata so that business users can consume such data for analysis and reporting.
- Actively participate in processes that continually aim to improve systems, processes, and procedures as they relate to metadata.
- Drive automation of metadata management processes and functions.
- a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent NQF 7 qualification; and
- Metadata Management Certification (e.g. CDMP Associate level) will be an added advantage
- Minimum five to eight years of job-related experience within the metadata field.
- Solid exposure to Agile methodology

**Competencies**:

- Knowledge of the Metadata Management (MM) (essential)
- Analysis and problem-solving
- Effective communication, planning and organising
- Service and stakeholder focus
- Conceptual thinking
- Attention to detail and results driven
- Facilitation skills
- Quality orientation
- Negotiation skills
- Team player
- Self-motivated

**Key deliverables**:

- Develop Business Cases
- Understand Metadata Requirements
- Develop and maintain departmental Metadata Standards
- Create, maintain, and integrate Metadata
- Develop Metadata Quality Reports
- Business Requirements Specification Document
- Functional Requirements Specification Document
- Develop Metadata Training documentation

**Job Type**: Temporary
Contract length: 12 months

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- metadata field: 5 years (preferred)



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