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How You Will Contribute:
As a Senior Developer specializing in Master Data Management (MDM), you will play a pivotal role in the design, development, and implementation of MDM solutions using the Reltio platform. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our MDM initiatives meet business needs and drive data quality across the organization. Your expertise in MDM development will be critical in enhancing our data management capabilities and supporting strategic decision-making.
Partner with Business Teams:
- Collaborate with data owners, stewards, and business leaders to gather requirements and define MDM strategies that align with business objectives.
- Serve as a key technical resource between business units and IT teams, ensuring seamless integration of MDM solutions with existing systems and processes.
- Provide guidance and best practices to business units regarding data modeling, data governance, and MDM lifecycle management.
Project Execution:
- Development and implementation of MDM solutions on the Reltio platform, ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.
- Develop technical specifications, design documents, and implementation plans for MDM projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
- Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment and understanding across teams.
- Responsible for system testing, ensuring effective resolution of defects, timely discussion around business issues and appropriate interaction resources relevant to data and integration
Metrics for Success:
- Collaborate with business and IT partners to define key performance indicators (KPIs) for MDM initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Data Quality Metrics: Establish metrics to measure the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of master data.
- MDM Adoption Metrics: Track the utilization of MDM solutions and their impact on business processes and decision-making.
- Stakeholder Feedback: Gather and analyze feedback from users to continually improve MDM processes and solutions.
The Must Haves:
Education:
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field.
Experience:
Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Customer MDM development, specifically with the Reltio platform, demonstrating a successful track record in delivering MDM projects.
Functional Skills:
- Good understanding of data governance frameworks and methodologies, including data lineage, metadata management, MDM, Reference Data Management, and compliance with data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Deeper understanding of MDM principles and data management best practices.
- Experience in data quality management and data governance practices within an Reltio MDM environment.
- Experience in data querying, profiling, data cleansing, and data transformation processes
Reltio Technical Skills:
- Demonstrate skills as a Subject Matter Expert for Reltio MDM platform
- Expertise in configuring the Reltio Data Model, match & merge rules etc.
- Proficient in working with Reltio APIs
- Experience in managing Reference Data Management (RDM), User Management, UI Config, handling LCA and Workflow
- Experience working with Reltio Integration Hub
- Expertise in Loading/exporting data into/from Reltio and optimizing the processes
- Expertise in the design, data modelling creation, and management of large datasets/data model
- Expert in SQL programming
General Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
- Experience with Agile project management methodologies and tools, with an understanding of iterative development processes.
Assets:
- Having additional experience in developing Data Catalog, using Alation Platform is a plus as our team supports both platforms.
- Working knowledge of Cloud storage solutions, such as AWS S3 Bucket, Azure Cloud Storage
- Some experience of one or two programming languages like Java, Python, and JavaScript, and familiar with API protocols (HTTP/HTTPS) and data formats (JSON, XML)
Experience with data warehouses like Snowflake, and data visualizations tools like Power BI, Looker etc.
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