Collibra Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Milton Keynes and remote - 6 months+

Collibra Subject Matter Expert (SME) - Milton Keynes and remote - 6 months+/RATE: £481 per day inside IR35

One of our Blue Chip Clients is urgently looking for a Collibra Subject Matter Expert (SME) .

For this role you will need to be onsite in Milton Keynes 2-3 days per week.

Please find some details below:

CONTRACTOR MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR BPSS

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description:

We are seeking an experienced Collibra Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead the configuration, governance enablement, and adoption of the Collibra platform for UK-based project teams.

This role focuses on platform configuration, governance implementation, and business enablement, ensuring Collibra is deployed in alignment with enterprise standards and effectively used by Data Owners, Stewards, and project teams. The SME will act as a bridge between business and technical teams, enabling data governance at scale, supporting lineage ingestion, and embedding best practices across the organisation. The role may also include interim functional ownership of the platform within the UK.

*Key Responsibilities*

*Business Responsibilities*

- Enable adoption of Collibra across UK project teams, ensuring consistent usage aligned to governance standards

- Act as a trusted advisor to Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Data Governance Analysts

- Provide interim functional ownership of the Collibra platform within the UK environment

- Deliver training, onboarding, and support for business users

- Drive adherence to client governance frameworks, templates, and naming standards

- Support governance processes including:

- Certification

- Issue management

- Stewardship workflows

- Produce and maintain governance documentation and user guidance materials

- Lead knowledge transfer to internal teams (eg, UK Community Manager or equivalent)

- Collaborate with stakeholders across business and IT to embed governance processes

*Technical Responsibilities*

- Configure the Collibra platform, including:

- Communities and domains

- Asset types and metadata models

- Governance roles (Data Owners, Stewards)

- Design and implement governance workflows (BPMN)

- Configure and align Collibra with templates, standards, and naming conventions

- Enable and support metadata ingestion and integration via connectors

- Configure Collibra to support automated lineage ingestion, including:

- Application-level lineage (system-to-system flows)

- Attribute-level lineage (field mappings, transformations, derivations)

- Support ingestion and structuring of lineage produced by other teams

- Assist in documentation of metadata and data structures, including logical/physical representations derived from lineage where required

- Ensure Collibra is configured to support regulatory, risk, and financial reporting datasets

- Troubleshoot platform configuration issues and optimise usage

Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client.