Lead Data Management Consultant

Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
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.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Required Qualifications
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.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
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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Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife's U.S. benefits, please click here .
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
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MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 40 days from the listed posting date.
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