Data Catalog & Documentation Specialist

Join an international data governance initiative focused on improving data transparency, documentation, and metadata management across multiple business domains. As a Data Catalog & Documentation Specialist, you will play a key role in maintaining enterprise metadata, supporting migration activities, and ensuring high-quality documentation within the Atlan Data Catalog platform. Working closely with business stakeholders, data owners, and technical teams, you will contribute to building a reliable data foundation that supports governance, migration, and operational excellence.

• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in Data Management, Data Governance, Metadata Management, Data Catalog Administration, or Business Analysis.
• Experience working with metadata documentation and data cataloging.
• Basic knowledge of the Atlan Data Catalog platform.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including analysis, validation, mapping, and structuring of large datasets.
• Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint skills for creating presentations and project documentation.
• Strong analytical skills and exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience creating technical and business documentation.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and international teams.
• Fluent German and English (both written and spoken).

Nice to have:

• Experience with Data Governance initiatives.
• Understanding of data lineage, metadata standards, and business glossaries.
• Experience supporting data migration or transformation projects.
• Familiarity with enterprise data management practices.

• Create and maintain metadata entries in the Atlan Data Catalog across multiple business domains.
• Document and maintain metadata for approximately 350 fields across 5 product lines.
• Create and manage metadata for 5 tables containing 65 fields sourced from 9 different systems.
• Ensure metadata completeness, consistency, and quality according to governance standards.
• Collaborate with business users, data owners, and technical teams to gather and validate metadata.
• Support data migration initiatives by preparing source-to-target mapping documentation.
• Analyze field relationships, dependencies, and data flows to support migration readiness.
• Document business definitions, ownership information, business rules, and data lineage.
• Create and maintain project documentation in Confluence and Atlan.
• Prepare progress reports, project status updates, and management presentations.