Sr.Data Analyst (Metadata Management)

Spectraforce Technologies; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies is seeking a Sr. Data Analyst (Metadata Management) in Newark, NJ to lead metadata onboarding and governance initiatives. You will work with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Product Owners to define governance requirements, adoption plans, and metadata standards.

The role involves guiding cross-functional teams, shaping cataloging policies, and driving enterprise adoption through training and communications, ensuring trusted data use across business domains.

Qualifications

• Experience leading metadata onboarding and governance initiatives.
• Ability to facilitate workshops with Data Owners and Governance teams.
• Proven ability to define metadata standards and adoption playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead metadata onboarding and domain activation across business domains.
• Facilitate workshops to define glossaries, scope, and adoption plans.
• Define and refine metadata standards, cataloging policies, and procedures.
• Prioritize metadata, data product, cataloguing, and marketplace initiatives with leadership.
• Serve as primary liaison between domain teams and Data Management & Governance organization.
• Identify governance gaps and opportunities to improve value through metadata and stewardship.
• Drive enterprise adoption of metadata and catalog capabilities through training and storytelling.
• Provide oversight across large-scale metadata initiatives, including roadmap and risk management.
• Analyze complex problems and determine best path to high-quality outcomes.

Skills

Metadata governance

Stakeholder workshops

Data governance

Problem solving

Job description

Job Title -: Sr. Data Analyst (Metadata Management)

Location -: Newark, NJ

Duration -: 6 Months

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.