Data Analyst Data Metadata Management

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

Job summary

Creative Solutions Services, LLC in Newark, NJ, seeks a Data Metadata Management lead for a right-to-hire role with a major investment firm. You will drive metadata onboarding, governance, and cataloging across domains to establish trusted data foundations.

You will run workshops with data owners and stewards, define standards and playbooks, align initiatives with business outcomes, and guide enterprise adoption of metadata and data products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in MIS, Data Management, or related field.
• Experience with agile delivery approaches such as Scrum or SAFe.
• Proven ability to drive governance, catalog adoption, and data quality improvements.
• Ability to engage stakeholders and translate metadata work into business value.
• Experience with enterprise data governance platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead metadata onboarding and governance across business domains.
• Facilitate workshops with data owners, stewards, product owners, and tech partners.
• Define metadata standards, cataloging policies, and adoption playbooks.
• Partner with leadership to prioritize metadata initiatives and data products.
• Serve as a liaison between domain teams and Data Management & Governance.
• Identify governance gaps and opportunities to improve business value.
• Drive enterprise adoption through communications, training, and change management.
• Provide leadership across large-scale metadata initiatives with risk and delivery oversight.
• Analyze complex problems and determine best paths to high-quality outcomes.

Skills

Metadata management

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Roadmap development

Data cataloguing

Communication skills

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in MIS/DM/IM or related field

Tools

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Atlan

Alation

Denodo

Job description

Right to hire position with a major investment firm.

5 days per week in Newark, NJ.

Title: Data Metadata Management

• 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 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 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.

payrate: 55-62/hr depending on experience.