Job Title-:
Sr.
Data Analyst
(Metadata Management)
Location-: Newark, NJ
Duration-: 12 Months (right to hire)
Description
- Lead metadata onboarding and domain activation efforts across business domains, helping teams establish the foundational metadata, ownership, stewardship, and governance practices required for trusted data use.
- Facilitate workshops with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Product Owners, subject matter experts, and technology partners to define business glossaries, business process context, data asset scope, metadata requirements, and adoption plans.
- Define and refine metadata standards, cataloging policies, stewardship operating procedures, adoption playbooks, and implementation guidance that support consistent enterprise adoption.
- Partner with business leadership and domain teams to prioritize metadata, data product, cataloguing, and marketplace initiatives aligned to strategic business outcomes and data risk reduction.
- Serve as the primary point of engagement between domain teams and the Data Management & Governance organization for metadata strategy, onboarding readiness, governance expectations, and catalog adoption.
- Identify governance gaps, catalog adoption challenges, metadata quality issues, and opportunities to improve business value realization through better metadata, stewardship, and communications.
- Drive enterprise adoption of metadata and catalog capabilities through communications, training, change management, and compelling storytelling that builds advocacy for data governance.
- Provide leadership and oversight across large-scale metadata initiatives and cross-domain governance programs, including roadmap development, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and delivery reporting.
- Analyze complex and ambiguous problems, exercising judgment to independently determine the best path to achieve high-quality outcomes.
Skills & Expertise you will neeed
- Demonstrated success driving enterprise outcomes by creating clarity in complex and ambiguous environments.
- Strong emotional intelligence and organizational awareness with the ability to grow productive, trusting relationships with key stakeholders, coach others, challenge norms, and influence decisions without formal authority.
- Ability to consultatively assess business partner needs through active listening, absorbing information quickly, and integrating diverse ideas for the benefit of the organization.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to tailor communication style to audiences at all levels of the organization.
- Solid understanding of metadata management, data cataloguing, business glossary management, data lineage, stewardship, data quality concepts, and data governance principles.
- Deep experience with business engagement, workshop facilitation, change management, governance adoption, and domain-driven data governance operating models.
- Ability to develop strategic roadmaps, adoption strategies, governance playbooks, and stakeholder communications that translate metadata work into measurable business outcomes.
- Strong understanding of data mesh principles, domain activation, data product onboarding, stewardship models, and enterprise metadata standards.
- Ability to apply emerging technologies and innovation to Data Management and Governance in the day-to-day, with a continuous learning mindset.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in areas such as MIS, Data Management, Information Management, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with agile delivery approaches, particularly scrum and SAFe.
- Experience with data governance, metadata, catalog, marketplace, and stewardship platforms such as Informatica, Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Atlan, Alation, denoto or similar tools.
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Spectraforce Technologies
Aug 13, 2026