NCF Category: Metadata Management (Analytics Engineering)

You mandate standards for programming tools and techniques across the organisation or system.

You can identify how metadata repositories can support different areas of the organisation or system.

You communicate the value of metadata repositories with strategic colleagues across the organisation or system and ensure best practice is implemented.

You ensure data repositories support the organisation’s strategic aims, conform to legal or otherwise mandated frameworks and are subject to effective governance. You are the Senior Responsible Officer for data repositories in the enterprise.

You can design an appropriate metadata repository liaising across technical, analytical and governance teams to do so.

You lead on implementing metadata best practise within the team and advise others where necessary.

You understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata. You can suggest changes to improve current metadata repositories and use them to complete complex tasks such as data and systems integration impact analysis.

You implement best practice under guidance when necessary.

You can maintain a metadata repository to ensure information such as standard reporting metrics remain accurate and up to date.