Job Summary
Job Title Senior Metadata Data Mapping Analyst
Location Chennai Hyderabad Pune
Experience 710 years
Level Senior Lead with people and engagement responsibilities
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Role Overview
The Senior Metadata Data Mapping Analyst is responsible for defining managing and governing enterprise metadata and end to end source to target data mappings across complex banking and risk data ecosystems This role partners closely with Business Risk Finance Data and Technology
Responsibilities
Job Title Senior Metadata Data Mapping Analyst
Location Chennai Hyderabad Pune
Experience 710 years
Level Senior Lead with people and engagement responsibilities
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Role Overview
The Senior Metadata Data Mapping Analyst is responsible for defining managing and governing enterprise metadata and end to end source to target data mappings across complex banking and risk data ecosystems This role partners closely with Business Risk Finance Data and Technology teams to ensure data is accurate traceable governed and compliant with regulatory expectations including BCBS 239 principles
In addition to hands on delivery this role provides leadership in business development RFP responses and small team management supporting data governance and regulatory transformation initiatives within a regulated financial services environment
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Key Responsibilities
Metadata Management Source to Target Data Mapping
Lead the development and maintenance of business and technical metadata across enterprise data platforms
Create and manage detailed source to target mappings STTM covering
o Business definitions
o Data attributes and hierarchies
o Transformation rules and calculations
o Aggregation logic and derivations
Work closely with business stakeholders to ensure mappings reflect true business meaning not just technical movement
Ensure consistency between business glossaries logical data models and physical implementations
Support mappings across multiple source systems data warehouses risk data marts and reporting layers
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Data Governance BCBS 239 Compliance
Support and operationalize data governance frameworks including
o Data ownership and stewardship
o Data quality rules and controls
o Data lineage and traceability
Ensure metadata and data mappings align with BCBS 239 principles particularly
o Accuracy and integrity
o Completeness
o Timeliness
o Adaptability
o Traceability and auditability
Partner with Risk Finance and Compliance teams to support regulatory reporting audit and supervisory reviews
Assist in defining and maintaining data standards naming conventions and governance artifacts
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Business Stakeholder Collaboration
Act as a bridge between business users and technology teams ensuring shared understanding of data requirements
Facilitate working sessions to capture business definitions data usage and reporting needs
Translate regulatory risk and business requirements into actionable metadata and mapping deliverables
Support impact analysis for upstream or downstream data changes
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Delivery Quality Assurance
Support Agile or hybrid delivery models by ensuring data mapping and metadata artifacts are delivery ready
Validate implemented mapping through data reconciliation profiling and UAT support
Identify data quality issues lineage gaps and control weaknesses and drive remediation efforts
Ensure documentation meets internal governance and audit standards
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Leadership Business Development Operations
Business Development Contribute to RFPs proposals and client presentations related to data governance BCBS 239 and regulatory data programs
Engagement Leadership Support planning and execution of data governance and metadata initiatives for clients
Team Management Lead and mentor a small team of metadata and data mapping analysts including
o Task planning and prioritization
o Quality reviews of deliverables
o Onshoreoffshore coordination
Promote best practices and continuous improvement across data management initiatives
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Required Qualifications
710 years of experience in data analysis metadata management or data mapping within banking or financial services
Extensive hands on experience with business driven source to target data mapping in complex data environments
Strong understanding of data governance concepts and operating models
Proven experience supporting BCBS 239 compliance and risk or regulatory data programs
Strong knowledge of data domains such as Risk Finance Regulatory Reporting or Capital Markets
Ability to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into clear well structured data artifacts
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage business data and technology stakeholders
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Preferred Qualifications
Experience with metadata management or data governance tools eg Collibra Informatica Alation Ab Initio or similar
Strong SQL skills and experience performing data analysis and validation
Familiarity with data warehousing ETLELT processes and reporting architecture
Prior experience supporting regulatory reporting stress testing or risk data aggregation programs
Experience working in onshoreoffshore delivery models
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About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
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