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TheData Catalog Delivery Leadplays a critical role indrivingthe execution and operational delivery of the Enterprise Data Catalogin a consistent, scalable, and audit-ready manner. This roleis responsible forgoverning execution across the Data Catalog Team, ensuring alignment between Product, Metadata Governance, and Operations.This roleis accountable for scaling the Data Catalog to achieve targeted adoption, metadata coverage, and business usage outcomes.This role partners closely with Product Management, Metadata Governance, and Engagement teams to ensure alignment between design intent, delivery execution, and enterprise outcomes.

TheData Catalog Delivery Leadowns end-to-end delivery execution within the Data Catalog team, ensuring design, development, and testing are aligned andproduction-ready.This rolealsoestablishesand reinforces design quality standards acrossthe Data Catalog team, ensuring all solutions meet enterprise expectations for scalability, governance, and usability. While not the primary design authority, theData Catalog Delivery Leadacts as a critical reviewer and challenger of design decisions, ensuring designs are complete, consistent, and capable ofoperatingreliably at enterprise scale.

In addition, this role applies strong product and design thinking principles to execution, ensuring solutions are aligned to user needs, personas, and intendedoutcomesensuringdelivery reflects how users willactually interactwith and derive value from the catalog.TheData CatalogDeliveryLead ensures that delivery reflects a user-centered, persona-driven approach, reinforcing that the catalog is designed to enable intuitive, high-value experiences for business and technical users.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the execution governance model for the Design & Delivery team, ensuring adherence to defined operating processes, standards, and agile practices.

• Owns audit-ready execution, including traceability from requirements through design, development, testing, and release with documented evidence

• Own release management processes, including alignment to enterprise change freeze calendars, readiness validation, and deployment timing

• Plan, coordinate, and own release management processes, including readiness validation, change coordination, and deployment alignment.

• Review and challenge design decisions to ensure solutions meet enterprise expectations for scalability, governance, integration, and long-term sustainability.

• Review testing strategies and test cases to ensure alignment with functionality, user experience, and enterprise standards.

• Ensure delivery activities align to defined patterns and repeatable execution models, reinforcing consistency and reducing variability across implementations,

• Participatein agile ceremonies,ensuresuser story quality, including clear acceptance criteria, defined dependencies, and adherence to Definition of Ready and Definition of Donef

• Own and drive Alation platform capability, including configuration, adoption, integration, and vendor engagement

• Represent Data Catalog delivery and drive alignment across Product, Metadata Governance, and Data Safeguarding, including resolving cross-functional conflicts

• Own resolution of execution risks, requirement gaps, and design inconsistencies tomaintaindelivery commitments

• Ensure delivery practices support long-term scalability, audit expectations, AI readiness, andintegrationmaturity across the catalog ecosystem.

• Accountable for driving measurable outcomes, including catalog adoption, metadata quality improvement, onboarding velocity, and audit performance

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience

• 7+ years of experience implementing data governance frameworks (e.g., data policies, standards, and controls), experience developing and/or implementing data governance policy and standards, and experience working with IT and/or business segments on the analysis of complex business processes and data governance needs

• Proven experience in data governance, data privacy, and data protection

• 2+ years hands-on experience with Alationrequired, including configuration of workflows, stewardship models, metadata ingestion, and platform integrationprocesses for data catalog governance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience in data governance, data privacy, and data protection

• Demonstrated experience implementing and enforcing structured operating models, delivery patterns, or execution frameworks across teams

• Strong understanding of testing strategies, quality assurance processes, and release management practices

• Ability to challenge decisions, drive alignment, and resolve cross-functional conflicts tomaintaindelivery momentum

• Experience supporting audit, regulatory, or compliance-driven delivery environments with a focus on documentation, controls, and evidence

• Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage dependencies across product, design, and engineering functions

• Familiarity with metadata integration, data lineage, and governance processes in modern data ecosystems

• Experience working with vendor platforms, including managing support, enhancements, and technical coordination

• Strong communicationand leadership skills with the ability to influence execution discipline without direct authority

• Ability toidentifyoperational gaps and drive continuous improvement in delivery processes and team performance

• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term platform scalability and maturity