Marketplace Platform Lead – Data Marketplace

Hybrid – Newark, NJ (3 Days/Week Onsite)

12+ Month Contract

Open Rate

C2C and All Visa Types Welcome

Join a leading global financial services organization as a Marketplace Platform Lead – Data Marketplace
, where you'll play a key role in designing and building next-generation enterprise data marketplace capabilities. This is a highly visible technical leadership opportunity focused on solution architecture, platform engineering, automation, and enterprise data integration.

We're seeking an experienced Solutions Engineer / Platform Architect with strong Informatica expertise and a passion for designing scalable, cloud-native data platform solutions. You'll work across engineering, governance, security, and business teams to build automated, resilient, and enterprise-grade data marketplace capabilities.

• Architect end-to-end enterprise data marketplace solutions across Informatica and external platforms
• Design scalable, secure, cloud-native architectures with an automation-first mindset
• Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and platform extensibility models
• Deliver enterprise solutions supporting metadata, governance, catalog, lineage, and data products
• Design and implement solutions utilizing Informatica Data Catalog, Data Integration, Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, and Automation Services
• Enable automated data product onboarding, metadata synchronization, lineage capture, and marketplace workflows
• Extend Informatica capabilities through custom integrations and platform enhancements
• Collaborate with Informatica product and professional services teams when needed

• Design and develop API-driven, event-based, and workflow orchestration solutions
• Automate the full data product lifecycle including onboarding, access provisioning, metadata synchronization, and governance
• Build reusable integration frameworks and automation components
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code best practices where appropriate

• Lead the evolution of enterprise data marketplace services and APIs
• Develop proof-of-concepts to validate architecture and demonstrate business value
• Build extensible platform capabilities supporting analytics, AI/ML, governance, and future enterprise initiatives

• Translate business and governance requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Partner with cloud engineering, data engineering, security, governance, and platform teams
• Serve as the technical liaison between internal stakeholders, platform consumers, and external vendors

• Drive engineering best practices around automation, security, performance, reliability, and observability
• Mentor engineers and provide architectural guidance across multiple initiatives
• Participate in technical roadmap planning and enterprise architecture reviews

• 6+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale solutions within cloud or distributed environments
• 3+ years of hands‑on Informatica platform experience, including:
• Data Integration
• Metadata Management
• Data Catalog
• Data Governance
• Data Quality
• Automation Services
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, Azure, or comparable cloud platforms
• Strong background building API-based integrations, workflow automation, orchestration, and event‑driven architectures
• Experience designing solutions spanning multiple enterprise platforms and vendors
• Proven experience delivering solutions from architecture through production deployment
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across both technical and business teams

• Experience with enterprise Data Marketplace or Data Product initiatives
• Knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, governance, access controls, and policy‑driven automation
• Experience integrating analytics platforms, semantic layers, or AI/ML solutions
• Previous experience as a Solutions Engineer, Platform Architect, or Technical Lead
• Passion for automation, developer enablement, and continuous platform improvement