Data Governance and Metadata Cataloguing Specialist

About The Position

The university has embarked on the implementation of a robust, scalable, metadata-driven data governance framework which prioritises high value, high-risk data assets. This will ensure that secure, trusted, and high-quality data assets are accessible and governed in alignment with enterprise priorities—enabling innovation, compliance, operational excellence, and strategic decision-making.

The role contributes to metadata and reference data standards, metadata quality, completeness and maintenance processes, and data documentation that supports trusted, governed, and reusable enterprise data assets. The position works closely with data stewards, custodians, business analysts, platform teams, and analytics professionals to resolve metadata and reference data gaps and inconsistencies, define and document business definitions and rules, build shared understanding of data meaning, lineage and usage, and support ongoing metadata reference data and stewardship.

Duties Will Include But Are Not Limited To

• Maintain and enhance enterprise metadata repositories, glossary entries, lineage documentation and data dictionaries for governed datasets.
• Apply Metadata Management practices to ensure consistent meaning, semantic clarity, definitional accuracy, domain stewardship and lifecycle documentation.
• Coordinate metadata updates with stewards, SMEs and platform owners to ensure catalogues remain current, searchable and aligned to institutional standards.
• Develop and maintain authoritative glossary definitions, controlled vocabularies and reference data.
• Apply naming conventions, standard terminology, domain rules and semantic consistency across academic and administrative portfolios.

Skills And Experience

To be considered for this position, you will have:

• Demonstrated experience in metadata cataloguing, business glossary development, lineage documentation or structured data documentation in a complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of Metadata Management, Data Governance and Reference Data, including documentation standards.
• Ability to analyse datasets, interpret business context, and translate domain logic into high quality metadata documentation.
• Demonstrated capability to author, maintain and review metadata assets, definitions, lineage and reference data with high accuracy and consistency.

Benefits

• 17% employer contributed superannuation
• On site child care facilities
• Flexible work arrangements
• Discounts for staff and their family members to study a range of La Trobe courses

Key skills/competency

• Metadata Management
• Data Governance
• Reference Data
• Data Cataloguing
• Data Documentation
• Business Glossary Development
• Data Lineage
• Data Quality
• Semantic Clarity
• Data Stewardship