Data Analyst (Data Marketplace)

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; New Jersey; On-site; USD 76,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Solutions Services, LLC is seeking a senior leader to own the Data Marketplace strategy and execution from Newark, NJ. You will define capabilities, standards, and an operating model to scale adoption across business domains, while guiding governance, metadata, and data access principles.

You will partner with data product owners, domain stewards, and senior stakeholders to publish standards, ensure readiness, and drive measurable adoption outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise-scale data initiatives and roadmaps.
• Ability to consult with executives and influence without authority.
• Strong presentation skills for diverse audiences.
• Deep knowledge of metadata, cataloging, data mesh, and stewardship.

Responsibilities

• Set the enterprise vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Data Marketplace.
• Lead prioritization of data product onboarding into the marketplace.
• Partner with data product owners, governance peers, and executives to define standards.
• Oversee evaluation of data product candidates for marketplace readiness.
• Drive alignment with cataloging, glossary standards, and governance policies.
• Establish operating rhythms, OKRs, reporting, and visibility for leadership.
• Develop and mentor a high-performing cross-functional team.
• Identify automation and platform innovations to scale the marketplace.
• Represent the Data Marketplace with senior stakeholders and drive business impact.

Skills

Enterprise outcomes

Executive relationship building

Active listening

Executive presentation

Metadata management

Data cataloging

Data mesh

Data marketplace operating models

Governed data access

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in MIS / Data Management / Information Management / Business

Tools

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Atlan

Alation

Job description

Right to hire long term position with a major investment firm.

5 days per week in Newark, NJ.

• Set the enterprise vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Data Marketplace, including the capabilities, standards, and operating model required to scale adoption across business domains.
• Lead prioritization of data product onboarding into the marketplace, balancing business value, data readiness, risk, discoverability, access patterns, and user experience.
• Partner with data product owners, domain stewards, technology teams, governance peers, and executive stakeholders to define publishing standards, intake processes, lifecycle controls, and measurable adoption outcomes.
• Oversee the evaluation of data product candidates to ensure they meet marketplace readiness criteria, including metadata completeness, ownership, access guidance, quality expectations, business context, and stewardship accountability.
• Drive alignment between marketplace capabilities, cataloging practices, glossary standards, data mesh principles, semantic context, and broader enterprise data governance policies.
• Establish operating rhythms, OKRs, reporting, and communications that make progress visible and help leaders make informed prioritization decisions.
• Develop and mentor a high-performing team, creating clarity of ownership while coaching team members through complex, ambiguous, and cross-functional delivery challenges.
• Identify opportunities to apply automation, AI, metadata enrichment, workflow improvements, and platform innovation to improve marketplace scale, quality, and user experience.
• Represent the Data Marketplace with senior stakeholders, telling compelling stories that generate advocacy, adoption, and measurable business impact.

Skills & Expertise You Will Need

• 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 executive presentation skills, both oral and written, with the ability to tailor communication style to audiences at all levels of the organization.
• Deep understanding of metadata management, data cataloging, data mesh, data product management, data marketplace operating models, stewardship, and governed data access.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise-scale initiatives, manage roadmaps, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver outcomes through cross-functional teams.
• 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, or similar tools.

You'll Love Working Here Because You Can

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we'll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical and leadership capabilities. You'll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

Payrate: 55 -62/hr depending on experience.