Global Metadata Consultant
Do you want to help shape the future of how our organization uses data, making it AI-ready and future-proof? We are looking for a curious and driven Global Metadata Consultant who wants to help build a future-proof, AI-ready data foundation and improve data transparency across our international organization.
In a world where AI is becoming a core driver of business value, context is key: without well-described, trusted, and connected data, AI cannot deliver meaningful or reliable outcomes.
This is a unique opportunity to work on a capability that is still evolving, where you can truly make your mark, influence how the organization works with data at scale, and directly contribute to making AI reliable, explainable, and impactful .
In this role, you will focus on implementing and operationalizing metadata management practices (including data lineage, business metadata, technical metadata and data governance), helping to make data context, meaning, and flows visible, understandable, and usable for the business.
You will work at the heart of enabling AI by ensuring that data is not only available, but also understandable, trusted, and usable in the right context, making this role highly impactful and future-oriented.
Your role
As a Global Metadata Consultant, you will contribute to designing, implementing, and improving enterprise metadata capabilities across DLL. You will work with both business and IT stakeholders to understand data context and help translate this into clear, practical insights that support decision making, impact analysis, and data trust.
You will play a key role in shaping how we capture, manage and use metadata to support a scalable, future-proof and AI-ready data landscape.
A key focus will be first on building and operationalizing data lineage, closely connected to metadata management and the enterprise data catalog (EDC).
What is metadata management at DLL?
Metadata management describes how we capture, organize, and govern information about data, including its meaning, structure, origin, movement, transformation, ownership, and usage, across systems, processes, and platforms. Data lineage is a key element within this broader capability.
Strong metadata management enables the organization to:
- Understand what data means, how it is defined, and who owns it
- Understand how data is created and transformed
- Assess the impact of changes
- Increase trust in data, reports, and analytics
- Support regulatory and audit requirements
- Enable AI-ready data by ensuring data is well-described, transparent, traceable, and governed
Provide the critical context that AI and advanced analytics need to generate accurate, explainable, and trustworthy insights
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In an AI-driven organization, metadata becomes the foundation for scale: it allows data, models, and users to connect in a meaningful way. This is what makes this role both strategically important and exciting to work on.
In this role, you help make this transparency practical and usable for the organization, supporting both operational excellence and strategic transformation..
Your responsibilities
- Help drive and coordinate the rollout of metadata management ((including data lineage, data definitions, and cataloging) capabilities across DLL, ensuring alignment across teams and domains
- Analyse and understand data context across systems and domains
- Support the design, implementation, and maintenance of metadata
- Work with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to capture and enrich metadata and trace data end-to-end
- Translate complex data context and flows into clear and understandable insights and visualizations
- Help configure and improve metadata tooling and integrations
- Contribute to standards and ways of working for metadata
- Support adoption through metadata governance, documentation, guidance, and collaboration
- Contribute to building a future-proof enterprise metadata foundation that supports advanced analytics and AI use cases
- Actively contribute to positioning metadata as a key enabler of AI and data-driven innovation within the organization
All members enjoy
- Two working days per year volunteering for a local charity.
- Health and Wellness program including healthy food, free health checks, fun health & vitality activities.
- Flexible hours with possibility to work from home
- Career development opportunities: online learning, member development programs.
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“We not only live up to the expectations of our customers for today, but also anticipate their market needs of tomorrow.”
You are
- Curious and eager to understand how things really work
- Analytical with a strong sense of ownership
- Comfortable working with data and complex environments
- Strong in execution, with the ability to turn ideas into tangible results and drive initiatives forward
- Able to explain data concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Proactive and willing to explore new and evolving topics
- Able to structure complex topics, bring clarity, and create alignment across business and IT stakeholders
- Skilled in working across domains and navigating ambiguity in an international environment
- Not a purely technical specialist, but someone who can connect data, context, and business value
You have
- A relevant Masters’ degree (e.g. Data, IT, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Economics or related field)
- 5 – 10 years of experience in a data-related role or transformation-related role
- Strong international project management skills.
- Strong international stakeholder management skills.
- An ability to speak different business languages. You know how to talk to the business, but also to IT.
- Affinity with metadata management, data governance, or data lineage (experience or strong interest)
- Experience working in complex international environments
Nice to have
- Experience with data lineage or metadata tooling
- Familiarity with data governance concepts (ownership, glossary, data quality)
- Experience with modern data platforms (cloud or on-prem)
- Experience in consultancy, transformation programs, or cross-functional initiatives
Choose wellbeing
DLL’s wellbeing ambition is to educate, equip and empower members to build connections, manage their mental, emotional, physical and financial wellness and maintain balance between work and the other priorities that make up their lives.
Our four wellbeing categories are as follows:
- Connection – Build meaningful connections with other DLL members
- Health – Manage mental, emotional and physical health
- Finance – Provide learning opportunities to help members achieve personal financial health
- Lifestyle – Maintain balance between work and life priorities
These are the things that matter to our members and the wellbeing of our members matters to DLL
Good to know:
- Deadline for application: June 14th (Due to high volume of applications this requisition may close prior to posted close date)
- The selection process may involve an assessment
- Applications via email will not be reviewed. Please apply online via our career website
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- DLL’s referral program applies
- For more information, please contact our Talent Acquisition Partner Dennis van Hoof via [email protected]
DLL appreciates the time you spend applying to our openings. We advise only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted. Hiring subject to successful completion of a background check.
DLL is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation in accordance with our values and all applicable legislation.
DLL, a great place to build your career
DLL is a global asset finance company that partners with manufacturers, dealers, distributors, and end users to facilitate access to equipment and technology. Headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, we operate in over 25 countries, offering financial solutions across various industries. We are also a 100% subsidiary of our parent company Rabobank, one of the world’s largest financial companies. Join our community of over 6.000 members from 75 nationalities! At DLL, our unique culture — shaped by our values (We put our customers first -Together we achieve more-You can count on me - I challenge myself and others to grow) and behaviors that define us — is at the heart of everything we do.
We offer exciting job opportunities where you feel welcomed, respected and empowered to be your authentic self and share your best ideas. At DLL, we believe in the strength of our diverse perspectives and experiences, which make our global community thrive.
You’ll receive competitive pay, generous benefits, health and wellbeing support, and manage your work-life balance through our hybrid working flexibility.
Our global operations offer you a variety of development opportunities and we encourage you to take on new challenges across our departments, businesses and regions.
Our company strategy emphasizes our commitment to sustainable business and making social impact is part of that as well. Together, we’ll “Partner for a better world” to make a positive impact. Joining DLL, means joining a company that consistently scores higher than the industry average in Employee Engagement surveys. This is also being acknowledged through many Great Place to Work certificates. People who work at DLL, like DLL.
Join us in Partnering for a better world!
