Senior Metadata Standardization Specialist

Job Title: Senior Metadata Standardization Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote — Work From Home

Level: Senior

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Metadata Standardization Specialist to lead metadata quality, classification consistency, and information governance initiatives across enterprise data environments. The role focuses on establishing metadata standards, developing data dictionaries, improving metadata accuracy, managing taxonomies, and ensuring consistent descriptions and structures across business systems, databases, applications, and digital repositories.

The successful candidate will collaborate with data architects, information governance teams, business analysts, IT professionals, compliance specialists, and enterprise application owners. This is a fully remote position focused on metadata analysis, standards development, documentation, and governance coordination.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve enterprise metadata standards, naming conventions, and classification frameworks.
• Establish consistent metadata structures across databases, applications, data warehouses, and digital repositories.
• Create and maintain business glossaries, technical data dictionaries, metadata catalogues, and reference taxonomies.
• Define metadata attributes, field descriptions, ownership rules, data types, and classification requirements.
• Review existing metadata for completeness, consistency, accuracy, duplication, and compliance with approved standards.
• Identify metadata gaps, conflicting definitions, inconsistent naming conventions, and undocumented data elements.
• Coordinate metadata standardization initiatives across departments and business functions.
• Develop procedures for metadata creation, validation, approval, maintenance, and retirement.
• Support data lineage documentation and relationships between business terms, data assets, and technical systems.
• Establish metadata quality indicators and monitoring processes to measure standardization progress.
• Collaborate with data governance teams to align metadata practices with enterprise policies and regulatory requirements.
• Review metadata integration requirements for data catalogues, master data management platforms, and enterprise data architecture.
• Support the development of automated metadata validation rules and quality checks.
• Coordinate metadata mapping and reconciliation during system integrations, data migrations, and application modernization projects.
• Maintain version-controlled metadata documentation and track changes to approved definitions.
• Assist business stakeholders in resolving terminology conflicts and agreeing on standardized definitions.
• Prepare metadata quality reports, governance dashboards, and implementation progress updates.
• Support data stewardship programmes by defining responsibilities and escalation procedures.
• Recommend improvements to metadata management tools, workflows, and governance practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Data Management, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience in metadata management, data governance, information architecture, or enterprise data management.
• Strong understanding of business metadata, technical metadata, operational metadata, and reference data.
• Experience developing data dictionaries, business glossaries, taxonomies, classification schemes, and metadata catalogues.
• Knowledge of data modelling, database structures, data lineage, and enterprise information architecture.
• Familiarity with metadata management and data catalogue platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or comparable solutions.
• Understanding of data quality dimensions, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, uniqueness, and validity.
• Experience defining naming conventions, metadata attributes, classification rules, and standardization procedures.
• Familiarity with SQL and database concepts for metadata investigation and validation.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks, stewardship practices, and information lifecycle management.
• Understanding of data privacy, access governance, retention requirements, and regulatory data management principles.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional data governance and standardization projects.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and technical documentation skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple standardization initiatives in a fully remote environment.

What We Offer

• Fully remote working arrangement within the UAE employment context.
• Opportunity to shape enterprise metadata standards and information governance practices.
• Collaboration with data architecture, analytics, technology, and compliance professionals.
• Professional development in enterprise data management, metadata architecture, and governance technologies.
• A structured environment emphasizing data consistency, transparency, and continuous improvement.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV highlighting relevant experience in metadata management, data governance, enterprise information architecture, data cataloguing, and standardization initiatives.

Application Subject: Application – Senior Metadata Standardization Specialist (UAE Remote)

Candidates should confirm applicable employment arrangements, residency requirements, and work authorization before accepting an offer.

Role Scope and Authorization: This is a remote metadata analysis, standards development, and governance-support position. Physical infrastructure maintenance, on-site archive handling, hardware servicing, and physical records management must be performed by qualified local personnel. Production metadata changes, privileged system access, sensitive data disclosures, legal retention decisions, records disposal approvals, regulatory submissions, and formal governance sign-offs must be carried out by appropriately authorized personnel under established policies and approval procedures.