First San Francisco Partners (FSFP) is a leading business advisory and information management consultancy dedicated to helping organizations leverage their data to improve strategic decision-making, reduce risk, create operational efficiencies and fuel unprecedented business success. Our consulting services include data management, data governance, Collibra (data governance and data quality software) implementation/adoption, data architecture, data quality, master and reference data management, metadata management and data privacy.
Kelle O’Neal founded the company in 2007 and is its Chief Executive Officer. FSFP’s leading position and strong reputation in our industry is because of our experienced senior leaders and dedicated consultants, business analysts and sales, administrative and marketing staff.
FSFP serves clients throughout the U.S., including large consumer brands, notable financial institutions and other organizations who want to make their information (data) actionable.
FSFP’s culture is centered on teamwork and a shared passion for what we do. We believe in treating clients (and one another) with respect and delivering measurable results for clients. Our FIRST values (Focus, Integrity, Resourcefulness, Skillfulness and Teamwork) guide our interactions.
First San Francisco Partners is seeking both employees and contractors for the Metadata Analyst role. This role is responsible to design, implement, and oversee establishment and delivery of enterprise Metadata solutions.
We are looking for a positive highly effective communicator that can lead without authority and has a passion for engaging with business, IT and C-suite stakeholders on Data Management projects to join our Delivery team remotely. Priorities change quickly within a consulting business, and we need someone who can recognize these changes and proactively shift work assignments to support the company. This position reports to the Director of Delivery and Operations and will collaborate and support our consultants and clients.
What You'll be Doing:
- Assess, define, and optimize various metadata management processes and standards such as business metadata definitions and technical metadata requirements
- Recommend new use cases. processes and standards as needed
- Support identification, prioritization, approach to remediate existing metadata.
- Deliver ongoing remediation cycle for prioritized business and technical metadata
- Support review and approval of extracted current metadata with relevant Business Data Stewards, Business SME’s, Data Custodians, etc., to review, validate, change, enhance, and update metadata documentation
- Support ingestion of updated and approved metadata into metadata tools
- Create and deliver metadata awareness, education, training, and communication materials
- Participate in business development, proposal creation and the contracting process
- Supports the development of project deliverables, synthesizes findings and integrates them into strategic-level deliverables
- Provides overall accountability for logistics within metadata engagement
- Provides quality assurance review of all metadata deliverables
- Documents and analyzes results from meetings, researches and reviews relevant documents
- Captures and documents business, functional and technical requirements
- Files all project artifacts and deliverables and maintains document inventory
- Facilitates required interactions and meeting sessions
- Works on tasks as directed by the Engagement Lead
- Coordinates the scheduling of meetings and develops, distributes and stores project artifacts, work papers and deliverables
What You Should Have:
- BA/BS or advanced degree in Business/Computer Science/MIS or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in Information Management: Data or Enterprise Architecture, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Metadata Management, Data Warehousing and Business Analytics
- Familiarity with Business glossary, data dictionary, data catalog and data lineage
- Experience in business analysis: gathering data, synthesizing information, forming insights and providing feedback
- Experience with Metadata tools, such as Collibra, Alation, Purview
- Excellent attention to detail, a passion for quality work and the ability to communicate at various levels
- Strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills
This range is based on our market pay structures. Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to business considerations, local market conditions, internal equity and candidate qualifications, such as skills, experience and education.
Pay Transparency Notice: First San Francisco Partners will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Benefits Summary
At First San Francisco Partners, the health and safety of our employees and their families is a top priority. We support our employees in all aspects of their life, including health and financial well-being. Full Time employees scheduled to work 40 hours per week are offered a variety of benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance; a 401(K) savings plan, disability coverage; life and accident coverage, vacation time and paid holidays.
Temporary Consultants are not eligible for First San Francisco benefits but can participate in other company incentives including our Employee Referral Program.
EEOC Statement
First San Francisco Partners is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, making hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.
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