Job Title: IBM MDM Architect

Location: Stratford Upon Avon, UK

Duration: 6-month FTC/contract

Working Mode: Hybrid (2-3 days onsite per week)

Job Description:

The job description for an IBM MDM architect includes the following qualifications and responsibilities:

• Experience: Experience in IBM MDM Advanced Edition as an architect or team lead, and in at least two large implementations

• Technical skills: Knowledge of tools like ETL (Data Stage) and associated tools that work with IBM MDM

• Communication skills: Strong communication skills and the ability to interact with clients' architects, other technical decision makers, and offshore technical teams

• Professional qualifications: A minimum Bachelor's Degree in Science or Engineering

• Responsibilities: Working closely with client architects to review MDM solutions, architecture, design documents and code review to provide quality assurance with expert feedback quoting previous real-world experience/POVs

• Ability to review co-existence architecture patterns on customer Master Data Management

• Advise IBM MDM technical architecture solutions and work with other senior architects

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and assure key architecture design documents, decisions, vision and solution architecture

• Challenges proposed solutions, architecture patterns and ensure best practices are followed and best of breed solutions are designed/architected/implemented

• Review ACE (IIB – broker), IBM MDM, IDK, publication to source systems design flows

• Review data architecture design (customer master data model – both logical and physical, in particular in IBM MDM system)

• Participate in all MDM workshops (end to end) and provide assurance services

• Ability to stakeholder manage other senior architects, suppliers and product vendors and understand the drivers, biases and push for best of breed solutions for the customer.

Technical Skills Required:

• Large scale MDM implementation using IBM MDM both SE and AE. In particular Advanced Edition on Co-existence parttern

• IBM ETL Data Stage, Quality Stage, DB2, ACE, IIB, BAW on Azure cloud

• Experience in architecting solutions for large transformational new MDM implementation programs

• Must have handled end-to-end architectural responsibilities from solution design, data migration planning, capacity planning, application security, process orchestration, application and data integration etc.

• Architecting mission critical and high performing systems

• Ability to review JAVA code

• Data governance, catalogue, stewardship, DQ rules best practices etc in the context of MDM program.

• Good experience in Requirements Analysis and Solution Architecture Design, Data modelling, ETL, data integration and data migration design

• Well versed with Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and similar project delivery methodologies.

Experience Required:

• 15+ years of proven experience in the Software industry

• 8+ years of proven experience working as a IBM MDM solution architect (end to end)