Aon plc (NYSE:AON) is a leading global skilled services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement, and health solutions. Our 50,000 colleagues in 120 countries empower results for clients by using proprietary data and analytics to deliver insights that reduce volatility and improve performance.
General description of role:
This role sits at the intersection of business and technology, helping to design, curate, and operationalize metadata within Aon’s Data Marketplace. You will work closely with data producers, stewards, and engineering teams to analyze metadata and taxonomy structures, administer the data catalog, and support automation and integrations with key data platforms and BI tools
Reporting to the Marketplace Director, you will drive specific workstreams and projects, acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams to ensure Aon’s strategic data assets are well documented (catalog), certified, and easily discoverable.
What the day will look like:
Work closely with data producers, stewards,
and engineers to manage metadata and taxonomy structures
Administer and enhance the data catalog (e.g., Alation), including onboarding data sources and maintaining metadata
Configure metadata ingestion, lineage, and governance workflows.
Automate metadata updates and integrations using SQL, APIs, and Python
Collaborate with business teams to improve data discoverability and certification
Key Responsibilities:
Standards, Taxonomy & Quality– Measure and improve compliance with metadata standards; support the categorization and organization of data using agreed taxonomy and business glossary terms to keep assets accurate, complete and consistent.
Data Catalogue & Administration– Help administer Aon’s data catalogue (Alation or similar), including source onboarding, connector setup, extraction scheduling and ensuring data assets remain searchable and well documented.
Curation, Lineage & Automation– Curate metadata, query logs an
📌 Sr Data Governance Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Aon
📍 Bengaluru