Role: Data Analyst Data Management(Data Contracts & Governance)
Location: Boston, MA(Hybrid)
Duration: 6 months
Type: Contract
Role Overview:
This role is ideal for a technically strong data professional who understands how data moves across systems from live operational sites to software testing environments and how validated data supports mission-critical decision-making.
You will help define and enforce data contracts, manage ingestion pipelines, ensure data quality, and bring clarity to what it means when data is production-ready and available for internal teams.
This is a 6-month contract with structured milestone reviews at 30, 60, and 90 days.
What You’ll Do
Data Contracts & Governance
- Define and implement data contracts using JSON, AsyncAPI, and YAML
- Clarify expectations around what it means when data lands in a dataset
- Establish validation standards and acceptance criteria for internal consumption
- Document schema definitions, data lineage, and governance processes
- Partner cross-functionally to align data expectations across engineering, site, product, and testing teams
Data Pipeline Management
- Support and monitor 40–50 active data pipelines across environments
- Work with:
- Data pipelines originating from live site operations
- Data pipelines used to test and validate software systems
- Improve ingestion reliability and pipeline observability
- Ensure stable, trusted datasets in Google BigQuery
Data Quality & Validation
- Implement data quality control frameworks
- Define validation checkpoints and monitoring processes
- Translate technical validation status into clear business meaning
- Support teams that rely on accurate data for operational and critical decision-making
Technical Execution
- Develop and optimize advanced SQL queries
- Work extensively with Google BigQuery (BQ)
- Use Python for automation, validation, and transformation
- Maintain version control standards using Git
- Define and document scalable workflows for structured data management
Required Experience
- Advanced SQL skills (joins, aggregations, optimization, performance tuning)
- Hands-on experience with Google BigQuery
- Technical background in data contracts (JSON, AsyncAPI, YAML)
- Experience defining data contracts
- Experience building and maintaining data ingestion pipelines
- Strong understanding of data validation, schema enforcement, and quality control
- Experience managing multiple concurrent data pipelines (40+ preferred)
- Proficiency with Python and Git
- Experience defining and operationalizing data workflows
Soft Skills
- Strong cross-functional communication skills
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business-relevant insights
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, complex environments
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