EDC / Axon SME (Informatica) – Data Governance & Data Catalog Engineer

Job Title – EDC / Axon SME (Informatica) – Data Governance & Data Catalog Engineer

Company – TCS (MEA)

Location – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Job type – Full time

About Us :

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for over 50 years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.

A part of the Tata group, India's largest multinational business group, TCS has over 616,171 of the world’s best-trained consultants with 157 nationalities in 53 countries. For more information, visit www.tcs.com and follow TCS news at @TCS_News.

Job Description:

Required Technical Skill :

Informatica Axon & Data Governance

• Configure and administer Informatica Axon Data Governance including domains, operating model, roles (Data Owner/Steward/Custodian), governance policies, and workflow approvals.
• Design and implement business glossary , critical data elements (CDEs), policies, standards, controls, and stewardship processes.
• Drive governance operating routines: stewardship councils, issue triage, governance KPIs, and adoption reporting.
• Define and maintain governance workflows (certification, approval, issue management) and ensure auditability.

Informatica EDC (Enterprise Data Catalog)

• Implement and manage Informatica EDC scanning, metadata ingestion, classification, and catalog curation.
• Configure scanners/connectors for key enterprise sources (e.g., RDBMS, ETL tools, BI tools, cloud platforms).
• Enable and troubleshoot data lineage (technical & business) and impact analysis across systems.
• Optimize catalog search, tagging, domains, and asset relationships to improve data discoverability and reuse.

Integration & Enablement

• Integrate Axon ↔ EDC metadata synchronization and ensure alignment between business glossary and technical metadata.
• Collaborate with data engineering, ETL, BI, security, and architecture teams to onboard new platforms and datasets into the catalog.
• Define onboarding playbooks , standards, and templates for data asset registration and stewardship.
• Conduct user training sessions for business and technical teams to drive governance and catalog adoption.

Support & Continuous Improvement

• Provide L2/L3 SME support for production issues, upgrades, performance, and enhancements.
• Participate in release planning, regression testing, and validation for Axon/EDC upgrades and patches.
• Build dashboards/metrics to track catalog coverage, glossary completeness, stewardship effectiveness, and lineage availability.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Core Technical Skills (Must Have)

• Strong hands-on experience with Informatica Axon Data Governance and Informatica EDC .
• Proven capability in data governance implementation , business glossary setup, stewardship models, and workflows.
• Experience with metadata management , data cataloging, classification, and end-to-end lineage .
• Working knowledge of RDBMS concepts , SQL fundamentals, and enterprise data ecosystems (DW/Lake/Lakehouse).
• Ability to troubleshoot scanner runs, connectivity, metadata extraction, and Axon-EDC synchronization issues.

Governance & Domain Skills

• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks , policies/standards, and operating models.
• Experience engaging stakeholders (Data Owners, Stewards, Compliance, Risk, Security) to drive adoption.
• Knowledge of data quality , r