About us
Billigence Pty Ltd is a specialist in the delivery of market-leading Business Intelligence and CRM solutions. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia and with offices in Prague, London, Frankfurt and Singapore our passion is data and our focus is the delivery of end-to-end solutions via a talented team of skilled professionals.
We are partners with leading edge software platforms including Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, Alteryx, Collibra, and Salesforce.
About the Role
- Must be an Australian citizen willing to get baseline clearance.
We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Manager / Metadata Lead to drive the uplift of metadata practices across high-value data assets supporting analytics, automation, and AI initiatives. The successful candidate will lead metadata governance activities, oversee a team of metadata specialists, and ensure data assets are documented, governed, and managed in accordance with industry standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of enterprise metadata and data governance initiatives.
- Implement and maintain metadata standards, including ISO/IEC 11179.
- Develop metadata catalogues, business glossaries, and data dictionaries.
- Identify and prioritize high-value data assets for governance and AI readiness.
- Drive metadata quality, consistency, and standardization across systems.
- Lead stakeholder engagement with business SMEs, data stewards, analysts, and technical teams.
- Manage and mentor metadata registrars and developers.
- Monitor project delivery, risks, milestones, and reporting.
- Support data governance, data quality, and information management practices.
- Ensure metadata assets are fit for business, analytics, reporting, and AI use cases.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience in metadata management, data governance, or data management leadership roles.
- Demonstrated experience implementing ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry Standards.
- Strong understanding of:
- Data Governance
- Metadata Management
- Data Quality
- Master Data Management
- Information Management Frameworks
- Experience creating and managing:
- Business Glossaries
- Data Catalogues
- Data Dictionaries
- Metadata Registries
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and complex data initiatives.
- Ability to operate strategically while maintaining delivery oversight.
Highly Desirable
- Experience with enterprise metadata/catalogue tools such as:
- Microsoft Purview
- Collibra
- Informatica
- Alation
- Similar metadata management platforms
Skills Required
- Australian citizenship
- Willingness to obtain baseline security clearance
- Extensive experience in metadata management, data governance, or data management leadership
- Experience implementing ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registry Standards
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data quality, master data management, and information management frameworks
- Experience creating and managing business glossaries, data catalogues, data dictionaries, and metadata registries
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and complex data initiatives
- Ability to operate strategically while maintaining delivery oversight
- Experience with enterprise metadata or catalogue tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica, Alation, or similar platforms
What We Do
We are headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices in Europe (London, Prague, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Warsaw), Bangalore, Singapore, New Zealand & United States. Billigence is a BI Consultancy and contingent labour service company with a growing customer base of large corporations across different industries as well as young and agile internet-based businesses. We help organisations big and small build scalable AI solutions that drive value by enhancing their data governance, aligning strategy and empowering their people. As a company we source and hire innovative data enthusiasts and believe data is the most powerful asset of today's businesses. That is why at Billigence, we are helping our clients to drive the business value of their data. We do this through our data proposition comprising of data consolidation and enrichment, data visualisation and analytics and data governance components. We deliver market leading recruitment services for temporary and contract labour hires to supplement our clients workforces. Our vision is to become leaders in helping companies to transform into digital age and reach their full potential by leveraging the power of their data. Billigence also leverages partnerships with some of the world’s most innovative data companies such as Snowflake, Collibra, Alteryx, Salesforce, Tableau, dbt Labs, H2O.ai, Matillion, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft, Keboola & others
