# Business Analyst 3 – Metadata & Data Governance | Austin, TX Remote | 8+ Years Metadata Analysis Experience

Posted 6/11/2026  
Apply by 6/15/2026  
Location: Austin, Texas, US  
Type: Contract  
Compensation: US Dollars 65 / Hourly

## Job description
**Location:** Austin, Texas  
**Duration:** September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027 (up to 2,008 hours; renewable for up to three one-year optional renewals)  
**Hours:** Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (excluding state holidays); occasional evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed  
**Interview Mode:** In person

**Overview**
A Texas state agency is seeking a senior Business Analyst 3 to serve as a Metadata Ingestion Analyst and critical liaison between technical IT and non-technical program staff. This role supports the development of an Enterprise Information Management (EIM) system under the Performance Management & Analytics System (PMAS) using agile methodology. The ideal candidate will empower staff to effectively determine business and technical glossary definitions for agency reporting and strategic decision-making, bridging the gap between technical data systems and operational users in the emerging context of AI.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Work with program areas, project sponsors, and system SMEs to connect EIM cataloging and lineage systems to source systems in IT  
- Automate regular collection and updates to agency metadata for high-value data assets  
- Explain technical findings and data limitations in simple, non-technical language to end-users  
- Extract, integrate, and analyze metadata from multiple complex internal and external sources to support program needs  
- Collaborate with end-users and performance analysts or IT internal leaders to create visualizations for enrichment progress and official reporting  
- Provide subject matter expertise on validating output from AI, particularly with respect to identifying and mitigating hallucinations  
- Ensure all data outputs adhere to agency reporting standards, data governance, and compliance regulations  
- Champion data glossary literacy across the organization by developing and conducting training sessions for non-technical staff  
- Create clear, comprehensive documentation and tutorials on using glossary tools for data synthesis  
- Promote a data-driven culture by enabling and empowering all employees to effectively utilize metadata and AI  
- Work closely with data engineering, IT, and program teams to troubleshoot metadata-related issues and address inconsistencies and mitigation strategies  
- Provide expert guidance to program staff on interpreting data trends and answering complex data questions  
- Stay up to date on new AI and metadata analysis tools and techniques to continuously improve data glossaries, data quality, and reporting  
- Develop and refine effective AI prompts and query strategies to retrieve and synthesize metadata accurately from complex data domains  
- Guide non-technical users in crafting precise prompts to get the glossary data they need, ensuring fidelity and accuracy  
- Develop a library of standardized prompts and query templates for common reporting needs

**Required Qualifications**
- 8+ years of experience gathering business requirements and translating complex metadata acquisitions and operational requirements into clear, actionable access paths for data glossaries for complex analytics  
- 8+ years of experience explaining technical findings and data limitations in simple, non-technical language to end-users and leadership  
- 8+ years of experience in a complex data analysis, senior business/systems analyst, and/or data liaison role  
- 8+ years of strong experience with SQL for data extraction, manipulation, and enrichment  
- 8+ years of experience collaborating with end-users and performance analysts or IT internal leaders to create and validate glossaries for analytics development and business data lineage analysis  
- 8+ years of excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

**Preferred Qualifications**
- 5+ years of experience with Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse  
- 5+ years of experience acting as the primary point of contact for program staff with metadata/glossary needs for analytics projects  
- 5+ years of experience working in a health and human services or similarly regulated environment, with a strong understanding of agency metadata requirements  
- 5+ years of experience with data governance and data quality principles  
- 5+ years of experience with data glossary tools such as Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) and Axon Data Governance  
- 2+ years of experience championing data literacy across the organization  
- 2+ years of experience training and mentoring staff with varying levels of data literacy  
- 1+ year of experience with AI prompt development

**Work Location & Requirements**
- Primary work location is Austin, Texas; position is remote/telework  
- Candidates must be located within the State of Texas  
- May be required to work remotely at agency discretion, up to 100 percent of the time  
- May be required to work outside normal business hours on weekends, evenings, and holidays as requested  
- All travel, per diem, parking, and/or living expenses are at the candidate's and/or vendor's expense  
- Must pass criminal background check as authorized by Texas law  
- Must sign an Acceptable Use Agreement as a condition of employment  
- Must sign and return an Information Technology Staff Augmentation Contractor Integrity Agreement before a purchase order is issued  
- Must sign and return an Information Security Cybersecurity Training Acknowledgement before a purchase order is issued

## Work setting
Remote