Collibra Solution Architect and Platform Lead
EYLocation: Hoboken Other locations: Anywhere in Country Salary: Competitive Date: 9 Oct 2026 Job description Requisition ID: 1749785 At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world. Job Summary: As the Associate Director, Collibra Solution Architect & Platform Lead, you will serve as the CBS Data Office architecture and platform lead for Collibra. You will define the platform strategy, architecture, standards, roadmap, and delivery approach; lead Collibra-related initiatives across CBS; and translate data governance and business needs into scalable solutions. You will partner with business, data, risk, security, and technology stakeholders to advance metadata management, business glossary, data lineage, data quality, stewardship, workflow, reference data, and compliance capabilities. Responsibilities: Own the Collibra platform strategy and solution architecture for the CBS Data Office, establishing a scalable roadmap, reusable patterns, and clear governance standards. Lead enterprise Collibra initiatives from concept through implementation, connecting business outcomes, data governance requirements, technical design, adoption, and operational sustainability. Serve as the senior Collibra advisor to CBS stakeholders, providing architecture direction, challenging constructively, resolving cross-functional issues, and communicating decisions, risks, and value to leadership. Key responsibilities include: Define and maintain the Collibra target architecture, platform roadmap, design principles, configuration standards, integration patterns, and release approach. Lead solution design for business glossary, metadata catalog, data ownership and stewardship, data lineage, data quality, workflow, policy, reference data, and traceability use cases. Lead onboarding of CBS functions, domains, data products, systems, and use cases into Collibra, including requirements, operating model alignment, metadata design, testing, deployment, and adoption. Translate business, governance, risk, compliance, security, and technology requirements into actionable solution designs and implementation plans. Provide architecture oversight for Collibra integrations with enterprise data platforms, metadata sources, master and reference data solutions, data quality capabilities, and downstream applications. Establish platform guardrails, decision rights, intake and prioritization practices, design review processes, and documentation standards. Assess Collibra capabilities and proposed changes, present options and recommendations, and evaluate architectural, operating, delivery, and support implications. Coordinate with platform engineering, security, risk, privacy, procurement, vendors, implementation partners, and domain teams to enable compliant and supportable solutions. Provide technical leadership and coaching to delivery resources, governance practitioners, data owners, and data stewards. Monitor delivery dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and adoption outcomes, escalating matters requiring leadership action. Support business cases, investment planning, implementation roadmaps, resource plans, and sourcing decisions for Collibra capabilities. Drive continuous improvement by simplifying processes, increasing reuse and automation, strengthening controls, and improving user experience and realized value. Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities: Senior communication capability required across CBS functions and ET leadership. The role also requires relationship management skills to influence and motivate key stakeholders. Operate as the primary architecture authority for Collibra-related decisions within the CBS Data Office, balancing business value, risk, user experience, scalability, cost, and maintainability. Analyze complex and sometimes ambiguous requiremen…