IBM MDM Architect

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:

1. Experience: Experience in IBM MDM Advanced Edition as an architect or team lead, and in at least two large implementations.
2. Technical skills: Knowledge of tools like ETL (Data Stage) and associated tools that work with IBM MDM.
3. Communication skills: Strong communication skills and the ability to interact with clients' architects, other technical decision makers, and offshore technical teams.
4. Professional qualifications: A minimum Bachelor's Degree in Science or Engineering.

Responsibilities:

1. 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.
2. Ability to review co-existence architecture patterns on customer Master Data Management.
3. Advise IBM MDM technical architecture solutions and work with other senior architects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Review and assure key architecture design documents, decisions, vision and solution architecture.
2. Challenge proposed solutions, architecture patterns and ensure best practices are followed and best of breed solutions are designed/architected/implemented.
3. Review ACE (IIB – broker), IBM MDM, IDK, publication to source systems design flows.
4. Review data architecture design (customer master data model – both logical and physical, in particular in IBM MDM system).
5. Participate in all MDM workshops (end to end) and provide assurance services.
6. 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:

1. Large scale MDM implementation using IBM MDM both SE and AE, particularly Advanced Edition on Co-existence pattern.
2. IBM ETL Data Stage, Quality Stage, DB2, ACE, IIB, BAW on Azure cloud.
3. Experience in architecting solutions for large transformational new MDM implementation programs.
4. 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.
5. Architecting mission critical and high performing systems.
6. Ability to review JAVA code.
7. Data governance, catalogue, stewardship, DQ rules best practices etc in the context of MDM program.
8. Good experience in Requirements Analysis and Solution Architecture Design, Data modelling, ETL, data integration and data migration design.
9. Well versed with Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and similar project delivery methodologies.

Experience Required:

1. 15+ years of proven experience in the Software industry.
2. 8+ years of proven experience working as an IBM MDM solution architect (end to end).