North Star Data Modeler for Enterprise Analytics

Versant Media, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

VERSANT Media seeks a Senior Data Modeler to define and govern our enterprise-wide North Star Data Model. This role translates business concepts into a shared data language and practical models across domains, analytics, and AI use cases.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, Analytics, Governance, and Security to design Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, establish canonical entities and governance artifacts, and ensure data products scale across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data modeling, data architecture, data engineering, analytics engineering, or related disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Establish the enterprise North Star Data Model.
• Define and maintain enterprise conceptual, logical, and physical data models across core business domains.
• Establish canonical business entities, shared dimensions, reference data, identifiers, relationships, and lifecycle states.
• Create a pragmatic model that supports domain autonomy while enabling cross-domain analysis and data sharing.
• Maintain an enterprise ontology, business glossary, and semantic definitions so that important terms and metrics mean the same thing across products and teams.
• Design for reuse, extensibility, regional variation, and future use cases while avoiding unnecessary centralization.
• Model the Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers.
• Define modeling principles and required artifacts for each layer: Bronze, Silver, Gold.
• Ensure traceability from Gold metrics and business concepts back through Silver transformations to authoritative Bronze sources.
• Define stewardship and decision rights for enterprise entities, metrics, and reference data.
• Maintain model documentation and metadata in the organization’s data catalog and modeling tools.
• Measure adoption, reuse, quality, coverage, and exceptions to drive continual improvement of the North Star model.

Skills

Data modeling

Data architecture

Data governance

Metadata

Data lineage

Data quality

Data privacy

Communication

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Snowflake

Data catalog

Job description

VERSANT Media seeks a Senior Data Modeler to define and govern our enterprise-wide North Star Data Model. This role translates business concepts into a shared data language and practical models across domains, analytics, and AI use cases.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, Analytics, Governance, and Security to design Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers, establish canonical entities and governance artifacts, and ensure data products scale across the organization.