Lead MDM Engineer

Job Title: Lead MDM Engineer

Job Description: 

About the Team
 The Product Catalog team at Stitch Fix owns the systems and workflows for product data across the company. Our Stibo STEP PIM supports product onboarding, enrichment, governance, and distribution to downstream systems including ERP, Supply Chain, eCommerce, and analytics platforms. The team partners closely with merchandising, styling, supply chain, and engineering teams and values strong technical ownership and cross-functional collaboration.

About the Role
 We are seeking a senior, hands-on Lead MDM Engineer with 7 years of deep Stibo STEP experience to work as an embedded lead within the Product Catalog team. This role partners closely with business stakeholders and full-stack engineers to design user workflows, data quality checks, and end-to-end MDM solutions in STEP.

The Lead MDM Engineer owns technical solution design and delivery, including architecture decisions, development planning, hands-on implementation, release execution, and production support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Stibo STEP solutions from business discovery and design through development, testing, release, and ongoing support
  
• Partner with business stakeholders to design user flows, workflows, and data quality checks supporting product onboarding and enrichment
  
• Translate business requirements into STEP data models, hierarchies, workflows, business rules, and validation frameworks
  
• Influence technical architecture and integration design for STEP, including REST APIs, event-based patterns, and batch processes
  
• Collaborate as an embedded lead with full-stack and Stibo STEP platform engineers to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions
  
• Create and maintain project and support documentation such as technical design documents, delivery plans, and release notes
  
• Provide hands-on STEP development and technical guidance to other engineers
  
• Participate in on-call support rotations, triage and resolve production incidents, and perform root cause analysis
  
• Troubleshoot and fix defects, data quality issues, integration failures, and performance problems
  

Minimum Years Experience: 7 years
Special Certifications/Skills:

• Experience: 7+ years with Stibo STEP MDM / PIM  solutions with at least 2 full lifecycle implementations of Stibo STEP - including design, configuration, integration, deployment and support
  
• Web UI configuration, Business Rules, Workflows, APIs, Data Modeling, and Integration Design
  
• Education: Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Technology Systems or related field
  
• Certifications: Stibo STEP certifications preferred
  
• Technical Skills:
  
•  SQL, REST APIs, integration design, exposure to AI/ML concepts
  
• Tools: Slack, Jira  
  
• Retail & Product Domain Knowledge
  
• Soft Skills:
  
• Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset
  
• Ability to speak to non-technical users about complex technical problems
  
• Clear verbal and written communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams
  
• Collaborate async with a diverse and distributed team