Informatica MDM Architect

Role: Informatica MDM Architect

Location: San Antonio, TX (Hybrid)

Duration: Long Term Contract

We are seeking an experienced Master Data Management (MDM) Architect to define, design, and deliver enterprise MDM solutions that improve the consistency, quality, governance, and accessibility of critical business data.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with Informatica MDM, Azure, GCP cloud platforms, and Retail, Supply Chain, QSR business domains, possess good understanding of particularly supply chain and Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Review and understand existing MDM solution built on Informatica MDM
• Understand the business requirements, perform gap analysis on the existing implementation, define the comprehensive requirements for new implementation
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performing custom MDM solutions on Azure or GCP cloud platform using relevant tools and technologies
• Define MDM strategy, data models, integration patterns, governance processes, and data-quality standards.
• Design and implement master data domains such as product, customer, location, supplier, vendor, and organizational hierarchy.
• Integrate MDM platforms with enterprise applications, data warehouses, APIs, ERP systems, and cloud data services.
• Develop solutions across Azure and Google Cloud Platform environments.
• Partner with business, data governance, analytics, and engineering teams to translate data requirements into practical architecture.
• Establish data stewardship workflows, match/merge rules, survivorship logic, reference-data management, and audit controls.
• Guide technical teams through solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing optimization.
• Evaluate and recommend approaches for custom MDM or master-data-management applications when a packaged platform is not the right fit.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 12-14 years of experience in data architecture, data management, or enterprise data integration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Informatica MDM, including data modelling, match/merge, survivorship, hierarchy management, workflows, and integrations.
• Experience designing and implementing MDM solutions on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Proven experience in retail, supply chain, and/or Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) business domains.
• Solid understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata management, reference data, and data privacy.
• Experience with APIs, ETL/ELT tools, event-driven integrations, and enterprise application integration patterns.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work across business and technical teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building custom MDM platforms or custom master-data-management applications.
• Experience with Azure data services, Google Cloud data services, and hybrid-cloud data architectures.
• Familiarity with ERP, POS, ecommerce, order management, inventory, procurement, supplier management, or loyalty platforms.
• Knowledge of modern data platforms, data lakes, Lakehouses, and analytics ecosystems.
• Experience leading MDM architecture for large-scale, multi-region organizations.
• Familiarity with data catalogue and lineage tools such as Collibra, Alation, or Google Dataplex.
• Cloud Architect certifications on Azure or GCP
• Experience with Informatica Axon or similar data governance platforms.