Lead Data Management Consultant - Cary, United States

At MetLife, data isn’t just a tool – it is a catalyst for growth. As part of our Data & Analytics organization, you’ll unlock trusted insights that drive bold decisions, power personalized customer experiences, and deliver lasting business impact. We’re building the future of data – one that’s governed responsibly, engineered for scalability, and designed for growth. When you join us, you’re not just supporting the business – you’re empowering it. Let’s transform insight into impact and data into action, together.

Plan, organize, and implement multiple complex data and analytics solutions. Serve as the data expert responsible for backlog refinement, sizing, leading solutioning, and leading planning and delivery of the prioritized features. Collaborate with all the project stakeholders (technical leads, build team, project managers, and business/operations teams) to deliver solutions across the use cases and lead the Scrum and ART Planning ceremonies. Lead and consult on the database design, implementation, integration, and support of data and Analytics solutions. Oversee team priorities and ensure alignment with business goals. Lead backlog/feature refinement to define future enhancements. Lead Daily Scrum Calls and ART/Agile ceremonies. Work on strategic enterprise initiatives (facilitation and strategic analysis). Responsible for consulting IT and business management on applying business systems analysis methodology and techniques to business opportunities across multiple projects. Work closely with the ETL, Business Intelligence, and data science teams to review the requirements and data integrations. Work with IT, business, and architects to develop and design requirements to formulate technical design. Lead the activities to capture metadata, data lineage, reference data management, and data quality rules as part of data governance. Lead the team, including stakeholders, spread across the globe in driving the delivery of projects. 

Must have a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or related discipline (will accept foreign education equivalent) and eight (8) years of experience performing, leading, and ensuring the delivery of complex data analysis and BI reporting. Position also requires: seven (7) years of planning, organizing, and implementing multiple and complex database and ETL and BI projects; experience leading and consulting on the technical database design, implementation, integration, and support of data, databases, and Data & Business Intelligence solutions. Experience performing data analysis and data modeling (table design). Experience using SQLs and data exploration tools to devise data standards and processes and ensures effective implementation across the organization using Databricks. Experience writing functional requirements, high-level design documents, and data-flow diagrams. Experience working with unstructured datasets. Experience using data analysis skills for anomaly detection and quality assurance.

The expected salary range for this position is $137,200.14 - $175,600. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms. 

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