Global Metadata Consultant

As a Global Metadata Consultant, you will contribute to designing, implementing, and improving enterprise metadata capabilities across DLL. You will work with both business and IT stakeholders to understand data context and help translate this into clear, practical insights that support decision making, impact analysis, and data trust. You will play a key role in shaping how we capture, manage, and use metadata to support a scalable, future‑proof and AI‑ready data landscape.

A key focus will be first on building and operationalizing data lineage, closely connected to metadata management and the enterprise data catalog (EDC).

• Help drive and coordinate the rollout of metadata management (including data lineage, data definitions, and cataloging) capabilities across DLL, ensuring alignment across teams and domains
• Analyse and understand data context across systems and domains
• Support the design, implementation, and maintenance of metadata
• Work with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to capture and enrich metadata and trace data end‑to‑end
• Translate complex data context and flows into clear and understandable insights and visualizations
• Help configure and improve metadata tooling and integrations
• Contribute to standards and ways of working for metadata
• Support adoption through metadata governance, documentation, guidance, and collaboration
• Contribute to building a future‑proof enterprise metadata foundation that supports advanced analytics and AI use cases
• Actively contribute to positioning metadata as a key enabler of AI and data‑driven innovation within the organization

• Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity
• Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities
• Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
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• Curious and eager to understand how things really work
• Analytical with a strong sense of ownership
• Comfortable working with data and complex environments
• Strong in execution, with the ability to turn ideas into tangible results and drive initiatives forward
• Able to explain data concepts clearly to non‑technical stakeholders
• Proactive and willing to explore new and evolving topics
• Able to structure complex topics, bring clarity, and create alignment across business and IT stakeholders
• Skilled in working across domains and navigating ambiguity in an international environment
• Not a purely technical specialist, but someone who can connect data, context, and business value

• Relevant Master’s degree (e.g. Data, IT, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Economics or related field)
• 5–10 years of experience in a data‑related role or transformation‑related role
• Strong international project management skills
• Ability to speak different business languages and communicate with both business and IT
• Affinity with metadata management, data governance, or data lineage (experience or strong interest)
• Experience working in complex international environments

• Experience with data lineage or metadata tooling
• Familiarity with data governance concepts (ownership, glossary, data quality)
• Experience with modern data platforms (cloud or on‑prem)
• Experience in consultancy, transformation programs, or cross‑functional initiatives

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