About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

10

The Role: Data Catalog Manager

The Team: The Data Catalog team within Data Strategy and Governance organization helps to lead fundamental organizational and operational change driving our linked data, open data, and data mining strategy, both internally and externally. The team is responsible for organizing and categorizing data assets, ensuring accurate and consistent metadata, and promoting data discoverability, machine readability, overall usability of the data catalog.

The Impact: Data Catalog efforts occur within the broader context of major strategic initiatives to extend market leadership and build next-generation data, insights and analytics products that are powered by our world class datasets. In short, the Data Catalog Manager will collaborate with stakeholders in our strategic transformation into a next generation interconnected data intelligence organization.

What’s in it for you: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Catalog Manager to lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive data discovery and governance strategy centered around the Data Catalog. Within the role, you will be responsible for partnering to oversee the development, implementation, and maintenance of our data catalog, ensuring that it adheres to industry best practices and standards. The wider division has a great culture of innovation, collaboration, and flexibility with a focus on delivery. Every person is respected and encouraged to be their authentic self.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of the data catalog, defining functionalities and ensuring alignment with overall data governance goals.
• Define and implement data classification standards, taxonomies, and ontologies to establish a consistent and meaningful categorization of data assets.
• Oversee the integration of the data catalog with existing data management and analytics tools to streamline data discovery workflows.
• Collaborate with data scientists, business stewards, and technical data stewards to ensure a shared understanding of business terms and their usage within the organization.
• Conduct regular audits of the data catalog to identify and address any inconsistencies or errors in the taxonomy and vocabulary standards.
• Champion the adoption of the Data Catalog across the organization, providing training and support to users on effective data discovery and utilization practices.
• Monitor and analyze data catalog usage patterns to identify opportunities for improvement and ensure the system is meeting user needs.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging trends and technologies in semantics, data management and data governance.
• Champion AI technology to streamline catalog workflows for glossary creation and metadata enhancement.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a in metadata management, information governance, or a related field; Advanced studies in Knowledge Engineering or related discipline preferred.
• Technical Expertise: This role requires a strong understanding of semantic technologies, ontologies, and metadata management principles.  Knowledge of graph databases and SPARQL or SQL querying language required.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards and best practices for creating and maintaining business glossaries.
• Ability to lead and mentor a team, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Exposure to data catalog tools (data.world, Collibra, Informatica, Alation) and business glossary creation.
• Understanding of the agile development life cycle and the broader Data Management discipline (data governance, data quality, metadata management, reference and master data management)

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.

We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.

S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit http://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights.

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
 

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we believe diversity fuels creative insights, equity unlocks opportunity, and inclusion drives growth and innovation – Powering Global Markets. Our commitment centers on our global workforce, ensuring that our people are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. It doesn’t stop there, we strive to better reflect and serve the communities in which we live and work, and advocate for greater opportunity for all.
 

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