Location: Bayonne, NJ
Salary: $120,000.00 USD Annually - $130,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Job Description: Marketplace Platform Lead Location: Newark, NJ (Onsite - 3 Days/Week)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Position Overview We are seeking an experienced
Marketplace Platform Lead to architect, design, and guide the implementation of a modern data and service marketplace platform. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise across cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform), distributed systems, DevOps, API integrations, and enterprise-scale architecture. This role requires both deep technical leadership and strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
Key Responsibilities Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Gathering - Lead stakeholder meetings to gather and validate business requirements.
- Align platform objectives with organizational goals and define user journeys and workflow expectations.
Architecture & Platform Design - Define end-to-end Marketplace architecture, including domain models, integration patterns, platform components, and data flows.
- Build technical designs, architectural documentation, workflow diagrams, and extensibility frameworks.
- Design integration strategies using REST/GraphQL APIs, event-driven patterns, and synchronoasynchronous messaging.
Technology Evaluation & Governance - Conduct platform and vendor assessments using scoring frameworks.
- Recommend the best-fit platforms, tools, and integration technologies based on business and technical needs.
- Lead architectural governance and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
Engineering Leadership & Delivery - Provide hands-on architectural guidance throughout development and delivery cycles.
- Partner with engineering teams to drive technical design decisions and ensure best practices.
- Oversee scalability, performance, observability, and security across Marketplace components.
Collaboration & Compliance - Work closely with product, data, engineering, and security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise governance, data privacy, and reliability requirements.
- Drive cross-team alignment through technical reviews, design sessions, and architecture workshops.
Required Skills & Experience Technical Expertise - Proven experience in software engineering, platform development, or technical architecture roles.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native solutions (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Expertise in designing REST/GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, and workflow engines.
- Proficiency with messaging systems, integration frameworks, and cross-domain interoperability.
- Solid experience with DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM), observability, and security best practices.
Marketplace & Data Platform Experience - Experience building or leading a Data Marketplace platform.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration systems, rules engines, BPM platforms, and catalog management systems.
- Knowledge of enterprise identity systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO), access governance, and data privacy frameworks.
Leadership & Communication - Ability to translate complex business requirements into actionable engineering plans.
- Demonstrated leadership guiding engineering teams through architecture decisions.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience evaluating and scoring platforms, tools, and vendor solutions.
- Background in enterprise data platforms, data governance, and data integration patterns.
- Prior experience acting as a platform architect in an enterprise environment.
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