Technical Designer Senior

Senior Collibra & Data Governance Practitioner

Context & Mission

Client is evaluating Collibra as a strategic platform for enterprise Data Governance and Metadata

Management, with an initial focus on data catalogue, technical lineage, data quality integration and

governance capabilities.

We are looking for a senior, hands-on Collibra practitioner to drive the functional POC, translate the

existing Data Governance capabilities into a potential Collibra setup and help build the internal

capability required for future adoption.

This is a fast-paced, delivery-oriented assignment requiring someone who can move comfortably

between hands-on platform work, operational IT and Data Governance teams, architecture

discussions and senior management.

Key Responsibilities

1. Drive the Collibra POC

· Structure and execute functional testing of key Collibra capabilities, including metadata

management, technical lineage, catalogue, governance workflows and data quality integration.

· Translate requirements into concrete test scenarios and rapidly turn findings into conclusions

and recommendations.

· Explain the platform to different tester populations, guide their testing and help drive adoption.

· Ensure the POC produces reusable insights and patterns for a potential industrialized setup.

2. Translate and challenge the existing landscape

· Rapidly understand existing capabilities through demos, documentation and discussions with

subject-matter experts.

· Separate the underlying business or functional requirement from the way it is implemented

today.

· Map existing capabilities to Collibra and perform a pragmatic fit-gap analysis.

· Apply an “adopt native before rebuild” mindset: favor standard Collibra capabilities and

actively challenge unnecessary customization, complexity and legacy ways of working.

· Identify what should be adopted natively, configured, integrated, custom built, simplified or

retired.

3. Shape the future setup

· Translate POC and fit-gap findings into recommendations for a simple, scalable and

maintainable Collibra setup.

· Work with Data Governance, architecture and engineering teams on integration, metadata

ingestion, lineage, workflows and operating model.

· Contribute to a pragmatic transition approach while minimizing unnecessary customization and

long-term technical debt.

4. Build internal capability

Transfer Collibra knowledge through hands-on collaboration, coaching and remote training.

· Help new team members within client’s Technology and the Portugal-based delivery hub

progressively take ownership of platform configuration, integration, troubleshooting, evolution

and maintenance.

· Contribute to establishing the foundations of a sustainable internal Collibra competence centre.

Required Profile

• Senior hands-on Collibra practitioner with strong practical experience in enterprise

implementations.

• Strong knowledge of metadata management, data catalogues, technical lineage, Data

Governance and enterprise data integration.

• Able to rapidly understand unfamiliar existing solutions and translate them into underlying

requirements and appropriate Collibra capabilities. Prior expertise in the incumbent

platform is not required.

• Strong standard-first / adopt-native mindset, with the confidence to challenge historical

complexity and unnecessary customization and the pragmatism to make the project happen.

• Able to combine hands-on execution with solution-level thinking and pragmatic decision-

making.

• Strong facilitator and communicator, comfortable working with operational teams,

engineers, Data Governance stakeholders, architects and senior management.

• Autonomous, pragmatic and able to deliver tangible results at pace in an evolving

environment.

• Experience in large, complex or regulated organizations is strongly preferred.

• Experience and/or knowledge of data architecture is a plus