Metadata & Data Lineage Specialist

A hands-on data governance role based onsite in Lagos, focused on building out how an organisation manages its metadata and traces data across systems. It suits a data professional who enjoys making a data catalogue genuinely useful, bringing clarity to how data moves and transforms, and helping colleagues trust the information they work with. The organisation is a digital financial services platform serving businesses across emerging markets, so the work sits in a highly regulated, fast-moving environment. Candidates with a background in metadata, data architecture or data engineering, and an interest in automation and AI-assisted tooling, are likely to find it a good fit.

What you'll do

• Maintain enterprise metadata, business glossaries and data ownership frameworks in the data catalogue
• Develop and validate end-to-end data lineage for critical data flows, products and reports
• Configure and monitor metadata ingestion workflows and improve coverage through automation and APIs
• Set metadata quality rules and KPIs and run regular assessments of gaps
• Apply data classification based on sensitivity and support risk, compliance and security teams
• Run workshops and guidance sessions to improve data literacy and platform adoption

What you need

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information management, data science, information systems or a related discipline
• 3 to 6+ years in metadata management, data governance, data architecture or data engineering
• Hands-on experience with DataHub, Solidatus, Informatica or a comparable data catalogue platform
• Practical experience building end-to-end data lineage in complex environments
• Solid SQL and understanding of relational database structures
• Knowledge of APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines and modern data architectures; financial services experience is a plus

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