What Is A Meta Data Architect?

A metadata architect is the term given to an individual responsible for ensuring that a given organization's tactical goals are optimized via the employment of enterprise data standards. Essentially this would imply the creation as well as the maintenance of a central registry of metadata.

Data architecture in general would also take in areas such as metadata management, various business semantics, and metadata workflow management in addition to data modelling. You will find that a Data architect's job will very often also includes setting up a metadata registry as well as allowing domain-specific stakeholders the chance to maintain their very own data elements.

It is interesting to note that the term Metadata holds a number of different connotations. One of the most concise definitions would be "data about data."