AVP / VP, Metadata Manager

• Lead the implementation of metadata management practices across APAC in alignment with global standards.
• Manage metadata policies, processes, and ownership models (including stewardship).
• Operationalize critical/ key data elements, business glossaries, and metadata repositories to support risk management, regulatory reporting, and analytics use cases.
• Conduct gap assessments of metadata for critical regulatory reports (e.g., BCBS 239, IFRS 9, MAS reports, other regional regulatory requirements). 
• 2. Collibra Metadata Management
• Act as regional metadata lead for the Collibra tool.
• Configure and manage metadata domains, business glossaries, assets, and domains within Collibra.
• Build workflows to review, approve, and certify metadata definitions and mappings.
• Implement metadata-driven lineage views to support data traceability for regulatory reports (such as Liquidity) 
• Build and manage business and technical data lineage views across source systems, data lake/ data warehouses, and reporting layers.
• Ensure metadata traceability for high-risk regulatory reports, analytics use cases using a combination of automation and SME validation.
• Work closely with source system owners, reporting teams, and tool owners to ensure end-to-end KDE coverage.
• Collaborate with data stewards and reporting teams to define metadata for new and existing regulatory reports and specific use cases. 
• Lead metadata onboarding sessions, workshops, and training across APAC.
• Support metadata requirements, ensuring traceability of key data fields.
• Partner with tooling teams to integrate Collibra with data lake/ data warehouses, downstream applications (e.g. Vermeg, Moody's), and other regulatory tools for metadata ingestion.
• Enable metadata APIs and automation scripts to streamline the ingestion and maintenance of metadata.
• Collaborate with DQ & other relevant teams to ensure metadata alignment across platforms.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's/University degree in Data Management, Computer Science, or related field.
• Certifications such as Collibra (must have), CDMP, or CIMP are highly desirable.
• 4 to 7+ years of experience in data governance mainly in the metadata roles in banking industry (must have).
• Proven experience with regulatory data governance initiatives (BCBS 239, IFRS9, MAS, APRA, BoT etc.).
• Strong understanding of data lifecycle, business glossaries, and regulatory reporting elements in banking domain. 
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Collibra, specifically in metadata models, lineage views, glossaries, and workflows.
• Familiarity with Collibra APIs and metadata ingestion strategies from data lakes and regulatory solutions.
• Experience building data lineage across systems (Azure, Vermeg, Moody's, MIS platforms).
• SQL or Alteryx experience for metadata reconciliation and lineage stitching is a plus.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills; experience working with reporting, risk, and compliance teams.
• Strong documentation skills to maintain metadata dictionaries and lineage maps.
• Ability to simplify metadata complexity for business users