Data Metadata Management Analyst

HireTalent - Staffing & Recruiting Firm; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HireTalent is seeking a Data Analyst to lead metadata onboarding and domain activation across business domains from Newark, NJ. The role involves partnering with Data Owners, Stewards, Product Owners, SMEs, and technology partners to set metadata standards, governance, and adoption plans.

The successful candidate will drive enterprise adoption of metadata and catalog capabilities through training, communications, and change management, ensuring data governance alignment with strategic outcomes.

Qualifications

• Lead metadata onboarding and domain activation across business domains.
• Define business glossaries, process context, metadata requirements, and adoption plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead metadata onboarding and domain activation across business domains to establish foundational metadata, ownership, stewardship, and governance practices.
• Facilitate workshops with Data Owners, Data Stewards, Product Owners, SMEs, and tech partners to define glossaries, context, scope, and adoption plans.
• Define and refine metadata standards, cataloging policies, stewardship procedures, adoption playbooks, and implementation guidance.

Job description

Request : Data Analyst (Data Metadata Management)

Location: Newark, NJ

W2 only.

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.