Senior Metadata Management Engineer
At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
What's the role?
We are looking for a Senior Metadata Management Engineer passionate about Data Management to join our team! Our team provides critical data management expertise and services to various areas across the organization. The role requires a multifaceted agile mentality, patience and persistence to solve complex business problems, and strong data management skills. You will work to achieve the following goals:
- Mature enterprise data management capabilities:
- Implement and manage new enterprise metadata management and data quality solutions
- Develop metadata management standards, best practices and policies
- Consult and advise external teams on how to meet specific business unit data management goals
- Provide data management shared services for enterprise data assets:
- Build and manage data management components, as needed, to support enterprise data engineering goals and objectives
- Build out data catalog, data dictionary, business glossary and data lineage components to support regulatory requirements for our most critical data assets
- Define and develop data management metrics to report on the health of the application and practice
What You'll Get to Do:
- Work with a talented, hardworking, respected team with deep domain expertise and enterprise savvy to build out the next generation of enterprise data management capabilities
- Collaborate with engineers and architects across several enterprise organizations to identify data management solutions
- Build and mature data management capabilities for several top-tier data platforms and services
What skills you'll need to be successful:
- A solid foundation in core data management skills including direct experience with: data modeling, data governance, metadata management and data quality
- Solid grasp of DMBoK concepts and domains (CDMP certification desired)
- An architecture approach with the ability to translate business capabilities into technology solutions
- Experience with industry standard data modeling, metadata management, and data quality technologies
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field
- 7+ years demonstrated ability in data engineering/data architecture with a focus on data management
- Deep Knowledge and experience in metadata management software
- Experience architecting and building data management solutions to meet enterprise level goals and objectives
- Experience with different operational, BI, and analytical technology implementations (on-prem/cloud, structured/unstructured data, operational/DW/data lake implementations)
- CDMP certification is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, but be an awesome teammate
- Experience with Agile methodologies/Dev Ops environments
- Experience with Collibra is desired
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