Role: Data Governance Specialist

Location: Coimbatore/Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Governance with strong expertise in metadata management, enterprise data governance, semantic modeling and AI-enabled data architecture.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with OpenMetadata, Collate or similar enterprise data governance platforms and the ability to design and implement scalable metadata and governance solutions.

The role involves building an AI-ready semantic metadata foundation that enables enterprise AI applications and agents through structured metadata, knowledge graphs, data contracts and governance frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

Metadata Management & Data Governance

- Design and implement enterprise metadata management and data governance solutions.
- Develop and maintain business glossaries, taxonomies and KPI/metric libraries.
- Establish metadata standards, governance policies and stewardship processes.
- Design and implement governance workflows and operating models.

OpenMetadata / Collate Platform Implementation

- Implement and manage metadata governance platforms such as OpenMetadata and Collate.
- Configure metadata ingestion, management and governance workflows.
- Integrate governance platforms with enterprise data ecosystems.
- Drive the evolution of metadata platforms to support AI-enabled governance.

Semantic Modeling & Knowledge Graphs

- Design and implement ontologies, semantic models and semantic views.
- Develop semantic metadata graphs and knowledge graph concepts.
- Establish metadata-driven context layers for AI applications and agents.
- Ensure consistent business definitions and relationships across enterprise data assets.

Data Products & Data Contracts

- Design and implement enterprise data products.
- Define data contracts at source, publishing and data product levels.
- Establish contract-based data quality validation and monitoring.




- Ensure data products meet defined quality and governance standards.

Data Quality & Governance Frameworks

- Design and implement data quality frameworks and validation processes.
- Establish governance controls, policies and guardrails.
- Implement monitoring and data stewardship processes.
- Ensure data governance practices are sustainable and scalable.

AI Enablement & Enterprise Architecture

- Build AI-ready metadata and governance architectures.
- Enable metadata-driven context for enterprise AI applications.
- Define governance guardrails to support responsible AI adoption.
- Align metadata management and governance capabilities with enterprise AI initiatives.

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

- Drive end-to-end solution architecture and implementation strategies.
- Conduct architecture, solution and governance reviews.
- Guide implementation teams on technical best practices.
- Define standards and scalable governance processes across enterprise platforms.

Required Technical Skills

- Robust experience with OpenMetadata, Collate or similar data governance platforms such as Collibra.
- Expertise in metadata management and enterprise data governance.
- Experience in business glossary, taxonomy and KPI/metric library design.
- Knowledge of ontologies, semantic modeling and knowledge graphs.
- Understanding of semantic metadata graphs and AI context-layer architecture.
- Experience in data product design and data contract implementation.
- Knowledge of data quality frameworks and governance workflows.
- Strong data engineering fundamentals and enterprise data integration concepts.
- Understanding of AI-ready data architecture and AI governance.

Required Functional Skills

- Strong enterprise solution architecture and solutioning capabilities.
- Ability to design governance operating models and workflows.
- Experience defining governance policies, standards and technical guardrails.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions and guide implementation teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

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