Specialist Metadata

CRDB Bank is looking for a Specialist Metadata to join the Data Management Office at its Tanzania Head Office in Dar es Salaam, reporting to the Manager, Master Data and Metadata. The role creates and maintains a trusted understanding of the bank's data assets, including business terms, definitions, data dictionaries, critical data elements, ownership and classification metadata, to support compliance, governance, data quality, reporting, analytics and AI.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and enforce the metadata framework, standards and procedures, and manage business, technical and operational metadata in the repository.
• Work with business units to define and document business terms, facilitate approvals and resolve conflicting definitions.
• Produce and maintain data dictionaries for core banking, channel, MDM, data warehouse and lakehouse assets, including CDE definitions, valid values and owners.
• Define data quality rules and business definitions and support data quality remediation.
• Define catalogue content requirements and work with the Data Catalog Administrator on harvesting scope and validation.
• Link every catalogued asset and CDE to its Data Owner, Data Steward and System Custodian.
• Apply classification and PII/sensitivity tags under the Data Classification Policy and the Personal Data Protection Act 2022.
• Define and report metadata KPIs and review new systems and projects for metadata completeness before go-live.
• Train and support Data Stewards and data consumers on the glossary and catalogue, and maintain metadata for AI and analytics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Information/Records Management, Data Science, Statistics or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in metadata management, data governance, data quality, data management, MDM, data warehousing, BI or a related field.
• Experience drafting metadata standards, glossary and taxonomy design, CDE management, classification and lineage.
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK2, EDM Council DCAM and ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry concepts.
• Hands-on experience with a catalogue or metadata platform (e.g. Microsoft Purview, Informatica, Collibra, Alation, Ataccama, Apache Atlas) and SQL.
• Knowledge of banking data domains, T24 structures, the Personal Data Protection Act 2022, Bank of Tanzania reporting requirements and BCBS 239.
• CDMP, DCAM or a catalogue vendor certification is an added advantage.
• Metadata Management
• Business Glossary
• Data Dictionaries
• Data Classification
• SQL
• Microsoft Purview
• Collibra
• DAMA-DMBOK2

Application Instructions

• CRDB Bank does not charge any fees for the application or recruitment process.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.