MetaData Management Engineer

MetaData Management Engineer

The Opportunity: 
As metadata analyst, you love diving into data and turning it into meaningful insights. With the abundance of structured and unstructured data, you understand the importance of transforming complex data sets into useful information to solve challenges. As a metadata analyst at Booz Allen, you can use your skills and experience to support a mission and use data for good. We need a data expert like you to bring your expertise to help catalog data for a cutting-edge airframe program. 

 

Are you passionate about transforming complex data sets into valuable insights? Booz Allen is seeking a talented Metadata Engineer who can play a vital role in establishing and managing our Enterprise Metadata management platform. As a Metadata Engineer, you will leverage your expertise in Data Catalog tools, including Alation, and Data Governance Use cases to develop a robust Metadata Management platform that supports our cutting-edge airframe program. 

Your role will involve setting up metadata standards, designing metadata architecture, and collaborating with Data Analysts across our broader Data team. You will have the opportunity to champion the use of the platform across various stakeholders, including Data Scientists, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Data and Production Support Engineers. Join us in our mission to leverage data for positive impact and make a difference with your skills and experience. 

 

How You’ll Contribute: 
As a metadata analyst on our team, you’ll: 

• Leverage experience working in Alation or other data catalog tool. 

• Partner with stakeholders to ensure metadata is clearly documented and maintained within the tool. 

• Design metadata architectures aligned with organizational goals.

• Develop a process to sustain metadata standards and ensure quality of metadata. 

• Research and apply data best practices to offer guidance to stakeholders by identifying areas for data lifecycle improvement and potential solutions. 

• Build documentation to help with usability and guide stakeholders in the effective use of Alation. 

• Establish performance measurements related to metadata management. 

• Integrate with Enterprise applications and Data Management tools.

• Mentor Data Analysts and conduct cross-functional workshops for Data Catalog adoption.  

• Develop APIs to enable integration between the data catalog tool and various data sources. 

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:  

• 2+ years of experience with implementing and rolling out a data catalog 

• Experience documenting business and technical metadata, along with lineage of the data 

• Experience building end user documentation to help with new system adoption 

• Experience connecting a data catalog to data sources to extract technical metadata 

• Experience establishing performance metrics and automating quality assurance of metadata

• Public Trust

• Bachelor's degree 

 

Nice If You Have:  

• Experience with Alation preferred 

• Experience with multiple data catalogs

• Knowledge of data management best practices, specifically those published by the Data Management Association (DAMA) or Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) 

• Data Management or Azure Cloud Certification 

Vetting:

Applicants selected will be subject to a government investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements of the U.S. government client; Public Trust determination is required.

Create Your Career: 

 

Grow With Us 

Your growth matters to us—that’s why we offer a variety of ways for you to develop your career. With professional and leadership development opportunities like upskilling programs, tuition reimbursement, mentoring, and firm-sponsored networking, you can chart a unique and fulfilling career path on your own terms. 

 

A Place Where You Belong 

Diverse perspectives cultivate collective ingenuity. Booz Allen’s culture of respect, equity, and opportunity means that, here, you are free to bring your whole self to work. With an array of business resource groups and other opportunities for connection, you’ll develop your community in no time. 

 

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