Do you want to be part of making a big step change in the data space in a fast-paced retail environment, driving us towards being a data-led organisation?

The Data Insight & Analytics Team within Asda Technology is going through major expansion, with plans to increase in size by over 25% over the coming months.  

If you have a passion for data management and ensuring data is treated as an asset, appropriately managed and governed to deliver true business value and you have experience in data management and governance, we would love to hear from you.
 

The Role

As our Metadata Manager, you will be responsible for driving the metadata data initiative within the ASDA Future Data programme supporting the data governance function; coordinating overall Data Ownership and Stewardship activities across the business ensuring a robust Data Catalogue is in place and the data artifacts are kept up to date, at the highest standards.

• You will need to understand existing metadata architectures, data management tools, business processes to define and develop the metadata model, support capture and maintenance of data artefacts defined during Global Design and Solution Delivery.
• The position will focus on establishing an enterprise-wide data catalogue with required curation through acquired data asset knowledgebase and you will need to identify current and target states of all existing metadata repositories
• You will be pro-actively engaging with data owners and data stewards around ASDA about the benefits of treating data as an asset and how robust Data Catalogue and data stewardship can optimise business effectiveness, reduce risk and improve growth opportunities.
• You will be defining, measuring, tracking, and communicating the benefits of great metadata framework and best practices across the business.
• You will engage and work with business data governance forums and decision bodies to support data owners and stewards to define, agree, and communicate business data standards and procedures and can use detailed real-world business examples to justify changing poor data management practices.
• You will be working within agile delivery and implementation of Data Governance workflows supporting both business change data management activity and the governance of data and analytical pipelines with the Cloud Data EcoSystem
• You will have a good understanding of data taxonomies and their application in the classification and tagging of data to support security and data protection requirements and restrictions; working with the business to develop strategies for improvements in critical data assets.

About you:

• You are a strong communicator and facilitator and able to work with and influence at functional level of the organisation
• You will be proactive and keen to help the business better manage and govern its data
• You will have experience in defining metadata models and metadata unification strategy considering including Data Catalogue and Business glossary concepts
• You will have passion to promotes use of appropriate techniques, methodologies, and tools to drive use of best practice and compliance to ASDA`s policies and procedures
• You will have ability to influence stakeholders, obtains input from and communicate metadata modelling results to senior managers for agreement with DIA and Architecture
• You will demonstrate excellent knowledge of Data governance, BI/DW concepts and hands on experience in data modelling using industry standard data models, particularly Retail
• You should have experience of management and implementation of the other metadata repository tools, including Alation, Collibra, or MS Azure Purview is highly desirable

If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is based at Asda House, Leeds with the flexibility to work from home 2-3 days per week

You will also get an excellent benefits package including; -

• £*,*** company car or car allowance plus discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy please contact grace.moorhouse@asda.co.uk