Principal Consultant - Informatica MDM Architect

Role Informatica MDM Architect Title Principal Consultant What Is the Role TELUS Digital's Salesforce Practice is seeking an experienced Informatica Master Data Management architect to lead the design and delivery of enterprise MDM solutions. This Principal Consultant will translate business priorities into scalable data models, governance processes, integration patterns, and implementation roadmaps across Salesforce and the broader enterprise application landscape. The role combines hands-on architecture, delivery leadership, client advisory work, and practice development. Responsibilities - Lead discovery sessions with business, data, security, integration, and application stakeholders to define MDM goals, domain priorities, operating constraints, and measurable outcomes. - Design end-to-end Informatica MDM architectures for customer, product, supplier, reference, and other enterprise data domains using the appropriate Informatica cloud or multidomain capabilities. - Define canonical data models, hierarchies, relationships, crosswalks, match and merge rules, survivorship logic, trust frameworks, and golden-record processes. - Develop current-state and target-state architecture, implementation roadmaps, effort estimates, and sequencing recommendations for new deployments, modernizations, and migrations. - Establish integration patterns for Salesforce and other source and consuming systems using APIs, batch processing, event-driven services, middleware, and Informatica integration capabilities. - Align MDM design with Salesforce solution architecture, including identity resolution, account and contact models, product and reference data, consent and privacy requirements, and downstream analytics needs. - Design data quality, profiling, cleansing, validation, enrichment, exception handling, and remediation processes in partnership with data owners and stewards. - Define workflow, stewardship, role-based access, auditability, and governance controls that support operational adoption and regulatory requirements.

- Set nonfunctional requirements for performance, scalability, availability, security, recoverability, monitoring, and supportability. - Provide technical direction throughout configuration, development, testing, deployment, and production stabilization; review designs and deliverables for quality and architectural alignment. - Guide data conversion and migration activities, including source assessment, mapping, reconciliation, cutover planning, and post-load validation. - Identify delivery risks and architectural decisions early, document tradeoffs, and present clear recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders. - Partner with project leadership to plan work, manage dependencies, and maintain alignment across onshore and offshore delivery teams. - Support proposals, solution estimates, statements of work, client presentations, and technical demonstrations for MDM opportunities. - Coach consultants and engineers, contribute reusable architecture patterns and delivery assets, and help strengthen the practice's Informatica MDM capabilities. Required Qualifications - Significant enterprise data-management consulting or delivery experience, including hands-on leadership of Informatica MDM implementations. - Architecture experience with Informatica Master Data Management Cloud, Multidomain MDM SaaS, or Informatica multidomain MDM, with depth in at least one master-data domain. - Strong knowledge of MDM concepts, including data modeling, match and merge, survivorship, hierarchy management, data stewardship, workflow, reference data, and golden-record management. - Experience integrating MDM platforms with Salesforce and other enterprise applications through REST or SOAP APIs, messaging, middleware, batch interfaces, or event-driven patterns.