Collibra Systems Administrator

Job#: 3035514

Job Description:

Location: St. Louis, Missouri (Remote)

Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

The Collibra System Administrator will serve as the technical anchor for the Data Governance platform, ensuring its operational health, stability, and connectivity. This role focuses on troubleshooting day-to-day technical issues, managing back-end configurations, and ensuring seamless data connectivity. The administrator will be responsible for the Collibra platform, including Collibra Protect, and will be the primary expert for building and maintaining JDBC connections for the Data Catalog.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for day-to-day technical issues within the Collibra platform, including user access, workflow failures, and job execution errors.
• Analyze system logs and utilize monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks or stability issues.
• Manage and administer Collibra Protect, ensuring fine-grained data access controls are correctly configured and operating as intended.
• Build, configure, and maintain JDBC driver connections to enable diverse data sources to integrate with the Collibra Data Catalog.
• Manage technical configurations for Collibra Edge sites to ensure successful metadata ingestion and profiling.
• Collaborate with data owners to troubleshoot connectivity issues between source systems and Collibra.
• Act as the primary technical liaison with Collibra vendor support to drive issues to resolution.
• Coordinate with internal DevOps and Infrastructure teams for platform upgrades, patches, and maintenance.
• Plan and coordinate technical implementations of new features, hotfixes, and major version upgrades.
• Maintain technical documentation for system architecture, configurations, and standard operating procedures.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in Enterprise System Administration, Application Support, or Technical Operations.
• 3+ years of experience working as a Collibra system administrator.
• Proven experience troubleshooting complex, multi-tiered enterprise software applications.
• Experience coordinating with software vendors for advanced support and ticket resolution.

Technical Skills:

• Experience configuring JDBC/ODBC drivers and understanding of database connectivity protocols.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on administration experience with Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud (DGC, Catalog, Protect).
• Experience with Collibra Jobserver/Edge installation and log analysis.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Windows server environments for basic troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with REST APIs for basic automation or integration testing.
• Knowledge of SQL for querying backend databases or validating data connections.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience working in a healthcare environment or with highly regulated data (HIPAA, PII/PHI) is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

The pay rate for this position is between $60.00 and $70.00 per hour.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Employee Type:

Contract

Remote:

Yes

Location:

St. Louis, MO, US

Job Type:

Date Posted:

May 27, 2026

Pay Range:

$60 - $70 per hour

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