Description

Summary:

The Metadata Lead will play a pivotal role in driving the technology and metadata operation standards for data governance and delivery solutions throughout Huntington Bank. The Metadata teams support metadata management operations and operations of the comprehensive data inventory. Their experiences in all phases of the data lifecycle and team-oriented collaboration will facilitate the transformation of Huntington’s data strategy and support the data users’ business needs. The Metadata Lead drives and executes reporting and analysis needs for various end users, management, project teams, clients, and peers, focusing on the identification of metadata, reference data, and quality issues, as well as potential solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the maintenance of data in and continuous Improvement of the metadata and reference data repository.
• Update areas of the metadata and reference data repository where appropriate based on input from technical or business stakeholders
• Use business acumen and functional stakeholder input to understand data needed for process enablement, to locate the needed data, and to translate to the right measures at the right granularity to answer the question being asked with appropriate presentation.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders with finding answers to metadata and reference data questions generated through normal business operations.
• Lead efforts with business and IT colleagues to define and document data and metric definitions.
• Build strong working relationships throughout the enterprise.
• Partner with Data Curators and Trustees to understand business rules behind available data to enable proper interpretation for metrics.
• Lead internal groups in resolving data concerns. 
• Identify and interpret trends and/or patterns within complex data sets.
• Manage the diagnosis of issues with existing platform configurations and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Lead the build-out of custom integrations and various data stores.
• Manage on-going data cleansing and harmonization of metadata and reference data for internal databases.
• Serve as a functional expert on our data systems & reporting tools, while communicating with other teams via robust data storytelling.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:     

• Bachelor’s degree in business Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent relevant work experience
•  7+ years of related experience working with data, metadata and reference data frameworks, and experience in metadata and/or data quality monitoring 
•  3+ years of experience leading colleagues/work efforts and managing toward deadlines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience with data management concepts including data governance, data quality, master data management, data lineage, metadata, and reference data management 
• Demonstrated technical competency of organizing and facilitating problem solving in a group environment
• Business acumen in relating data to business process drivers and performance management
• Collaborative, team-focused, delivery experience
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working independently with minimal direction
• Strategic, intellectually curious thinker with focus on outcomes
• Demonstrated technical competency of organizing and facilitating problem solving in a group environment
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and fill different roles within the team
• Ability to work objectively towards solving problems
• Strong knowledge of data and metadata and reference data management principles
• Strong knowledge of business analysis and process engineering
• Ability to think conceptually and abstractly
• Business outcome focused
• Demonstrated perseverance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong negotiation, influencing, and partnership skills
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Understanding of data management concepts including Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Data Lineage, Metadata, and Reference Data Management 
• Demonstrated ability to work independently across multiple tasks while meeting aggressive timelines
• Strategic, intellectually curious thinker with focus on outcomes 
• Crisp business execution and project management rigor along with a demonstrated commitment to a strong customer service philosophy

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

Yes

Workplace Type:

Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds:  in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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