Senior Ab Initio Metadata Hub Architect

Requirement ID: 10922519
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Start Date: 31 August 2026
Duration: 6 months
Language: English
Experience: 10+ years preferred

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Ab Initio Metadata Hub Architect to lead the implementation of enterprise metadata management, metadata governance, technical and business lineage, business glossary, stewardship, impact analysis, and metadata intelligence capabilities using Ab Initio Metadata Hub (MHUB).

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Ab Initio Metadata Hub, metadata governance, lineage management, and metadata intelligence, with the ability to design and implement solutions that support metadata harvesting, business glossary management, technical and business lineage, impact analysis, metadata stewardship, data classification, and enterprise metadata repositories.

This is a metadata and data governance-focused architecture role, rather than a traditional ETL-only position. The successful candidate should be able to operate across metadata architecture, Metadata Hub implementation, lineage, governance, stewardship, and metadata intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise metadata management solutions using Ab Initio Metadata Hub (MHUB).
• Define and implement metadata governance frameworks, standards, policies, and lifecycle processes.
• Design and manage technical and business data lineage capabilities.
• Implement and maintain enterprise business glossaries and metadata repositories.
• Support metadata harvesting, classification, discovery, and integration across enterprise data platforms.
• Develop metadata-driven impact analysis and dependency management capabilities.
• Establish metadata stewardship processes, roles, workflows, and responsibilities.
• Collaborate with data governance, data architecture, data engineering, stewardship, and platform teams.
• Support enterprise data discoverability, traceability, compliance, and business understanding.
• Define metadata standards and operating models aligned with enterprise data governance objectives.
• Provide architecture guidance for modern data platforms and metadata catalog solutions.
• Support integration between Metadata Hub and modern data platforms and catalog technologies.

Must-Have Skills

• Ab Initio Metadata Hub (MHUB) – mandatory.
• Ab Initio – minimum 7 years of experience.
• Metadata Hub implementation – ideally 3+ years of hands-on implementation experience.
• Unity Catalog – mandatory.
• Databricks – mandatory.
• Delta Lake – mandatory.
• SQL Warehouses – mandatory.
• Strong experience in metadata governance and enterprise metadata management.
• Experience implementing metadata catalog solutions.
• Experience with business glossary implementations.
• Strong understanding of technical and business lineage.
• Experience with metadata harvesting and metadata repositories.
• Strong understanding of metadata stewardship and governance processes.
• Experience with impact analysis and data dependency management.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Microsoft Purview.
• Apache Atlas.
• Data Catalog platforms.
• Data Mesh concepts.
• Data Governance Architecture.
• Azure Data Factory.
• PySpark.
• Broader modern data platform architecture experience.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The successful candidate should be capable of acting as:

• Metadata Architect
• Metadata Hub Specialist
• Lineage Architect
• Data Governance Architect
• Metadata Stewardship Lead
• Metadata Intelligence Consultant

The candidate should demonstrate a strong combination of technical architecture, metadata management, data governance, and hands-on implementation experience.

Experience Requirements

• 10+ years of overall relevant experience preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of Ab Initio experience.
• Ideally 3+ years of Ab Initio Metadata Hub (MHUB) implementation experience.
• Proven experience delivering metadata governance programmes.
• Experience with enterprise metadata catalog implementations.
• Experience implementing business glossaries.
• Experience delivering technical and business lineage solutions.

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to play a key architectural role in building and strengthening enterprise metadata capabilities, helping improve data discoverability, governance, lineage, traceability, compliance, and business understanding across modern data platforms.

Only candidates with strong Ab Initio Metadata Hub/MHUB experience and a metadata governance background will be considered.