Sr. Specialist, Metadata Stewardship

Job Description

Required Skills:

Animal Vaccination, Attribute-Based Access Control, Computer Science, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Stewardship, Digital Technology, Digital Transformation, Information Technology Operations, IT Operation, Quality Management, Stakeholder Engagement

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Sr. Specialist, Metadata Stewardship

The Opportunity

Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.

Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview:

As a Data Stewardship (metadata and data catalog), you will play a pivotal role ensuring the quality of metadata management, cataloguing and data governance of one of MSD’s data domains, which will directly influence our patients who use our life-saving products. This role involves gathering and analyzing project requirements, setting up and maintaining Collibra Data Governance Centre front end environment for data domain, and ensuring compliance with data governance best practices. The stewards collaborates closely with various teams, trains stakeholders, and participates in the implementation of new functionalities to support effective data management. If you are passionate about data stewardship and governance and want to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze domain requirements for effective data governance and cataloguing application.
• Communicate with domain stakeholders to ensure alignment of data governance and stewardship practices and cataloguing while focusing on user experience
• Provide an implementation framework for cataloguing and data governance requirements and assign appropriate roles.
• Set up and maintain the Collibra DGC environment, including community and domain structure, views, diagrams, and dashboards.
• Implement metamodel changes through releases and facilitate ingestions from required source systems.
• Engage in tool maintenance and cleaning activities to ensure positive user experience.
• Train and support domain stakeholders
• Provide ad-hoc demos to stakeholders to enhance understanding and usage of data governance tools.
• Create and maintain DGC and data governance-related documentation, best practices, and training materials.
• Conduct impact analyses for integrated systems and ensure compliance with cataloguing and best practices.
• Analyze new connector implementation requirements and work closely with Data Governance Analyst and platform team to implement it
• Inform about new DGC Collibra functionalities and updates.
• Design and develop workflows to help stewards and users with their cataloguing journey
• Manage business and technical metadata in Collibra to ensure accuracy, consistency, and accessibility.

• Design, implement and manage metamodel to enhance metadata quality and standardization
• Develop and maintain standards for data quality metrics and monitor performance.

Who You Are

You are ready if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on professional who has been in the technology industry for minimum 5 years in a data governance role.
• Proficiency in using Collibra Data Governance Centre for data governance activities
• Expertise in Metadata management and implementing metadata cataloging processes.
• Proven experience in supporting the design and implementation of data stewardship frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Experience in Collibra workflow development
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including conducting training sessions and doing demos to senior management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Applications, mainly excel
• Fluent in English both spoken and written.
• Team spirit and cooperative nature

Nice to have, but not essential:

• Understanding access management and experience in designing and developing attribute-based access controls.
• Understanding data quality management and experience in developing and maintaining standards.
• Understanding reference and master data management and governance
• Advanced degree in a related field.
• Collibra Ranger Certification
• Experience in Agile using JIRA
• Experience in a research-intensive biopharmaceutical company.
• Groovy, SQL, HTML

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

magine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Job Posting End Date:

05/25/2026

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