Description

Role Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced MDM Architect / Data Architect to design, implement, and govern enterprise scale data and master data management (MDM) solutions. The role will lead data domain modeling, canonical design, governance, and integration architecture across complex, regulated ecosystems, enabling trusted, consistent, and well governed enterprise data. This role is critical in establishing golden sources of truth for core business domains such as Reference Data, Security Master, Counterparty, Customer, Instrument, and Price data, while aligning business, technology, and governance stakeholders.
 

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Define and own enterprise data architecture, MDM architecture, and domain driven data models

• Design MDM solutions (Registry, Consolidation, Coexistence, or Centralized styles) aligned to business needs

• Establish canonical data models, semantic layers, and metadata standards

• Ensure alignment with target state architecture, data modernization, and cloud strategies

Master Data Management

• Lead MDM initiatives across domains such as Reference Data, Security Master, Party/Customer, Instrument, Price, and Counterparty

• Define golden record, survivorship rules, match merge strategies, and data quality frameworks

• Integrate MDM with downstream consumers such as data lakes, analytics, reporting, and operational systems

• Support vendor platforms such as Informatica MDM, Reltio, Profisee, SAP MDG, GoldenSource, or equivalent

Data Governance & Quality

• Establish data governance frameworks, stewardship models, and ownership structures

• Define data quality KPIs, controls, validation rules, and remediation workflows

• Partner with governance tools such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica DQ, or similar

• Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and internal risk requirements

Integration & Platforms

• Architect data integration patterns using Kafka, APIs, CDC, ETL/ELT pipelines

• Work with cloud and modern data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP; Databricks, Snowflake, Dremio, Azure Data Factory)

• Ensure MDM integrates seamlessly with IBOR, OMS, Analytics, Regulatory reporting, and downstream platforms

Stakeholder & Leadership

• Act as architectural authority working with business, engineering, risk, and compliance teams

• Translate business requirements into scalable architecture designs

• Mentor data architects and data engineers

• Contribute to SteerCo, Architecture Review Boards, and executive forums
 

Required Skills & Experience

Core Skills

• 10+ years in Data Architecture / MDM / Enterprise Data roles

• Strong experience in MDM concepts: golden source, survivorship, match merge, hierarchy management

• Expertise in data modeling (Logical, Conceptual, Physical; 3NF, dimensional models)

• Strong SQL skills; understanding of PL/SQL or similar

• Experience designing canonical and domain driven data models

Platforms & Tools

• MDM tools: Informatica MDM, Reltio, Profisee, GoldenSource (one or more)

• Data platforms: Databricks, Snowflake, Dremio, Azure Synapse, BigQuery

• Integration: Kafka, REST APIs, ETL/ELT tools, CDC

• Governance & metadata tools: Collibra, Alation, Informatica DQ (preferred)

Domain Experience (Strongly Preferred)

• Asset Management / Capital Markets / Banking

• Security Master, Pricing, Reference Data, IBOR, Market Data

• Vendor data sources such as Bloomberg, Rimes, Refinitiv, FactSet

• Knowledge of industry standards such as FIBO (Financial Industry Business Ontology)

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate