Engineering Lead MDM

Job Description

The Position

We are looking for an MDM Engineering Lead to guide the design development and delivery of Master Data Management (MDM) and Reference Data Management (RDM) solutions. This hands-on role combines engineering and leadership: you will help shape scalable reliable data platforms translate business needs into technical requirements support implementation and code quality and coach a small team of engineers. You will collaborate with product owners architects and data stewards to promote data governance and stewardship and you will help introduce AI-driven approaches and automation to improve data quality and engineering efficiency.

What will you do

• Design and develop MDM/RDM solutions using cloud tools.
• Deliver MDM artifacts and integrations that enable data modeling mapping data quality and governance.
• Integrate MDM platforms with other systems (ERP BI metadata stores APIs batch/messaging) as required.
• Help configure and operate core MDM domains (e.g. customer product reference data) to meet performance and availability needs.
• Explore and apply AI/ML and automation where they add value (e.g. entity resolution matching anomaly detection metadata inference CI/CD automation).
• Work with stakeholders to define requirements prioritize work and support testing and deployments.
• Troubleshoot production issues support root-cause analysis and contribute to durable fixes and runbooks.
• Advocate and apply best practices for data governance security and compliance.

Qualifications Skills & Experience Required

• Degree in Computer Science Information Technology or equivalent relevant experience.
• 5 years of hands-on experience with MDM/RDM implementations or related data integration projects.
• Familiarity with MDM platforms and data quality/integration concepts (tools such as Informatica IDMC Informatica MDM or similar).
• Practical experience with data modeling mapping SQL and scripting or programming (e.g. Python Java Shell).
• Comfortable working with cloud concepts Linux/Windows environments and collaborating across technical and business teams.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating systems via APIs batch processes or messaging (e.g. REST Kafka).
• Exposure to data integration frameworks (e.g. MuleSoft) or data quality tools.
• Experience operationalizing ML/AI features in data pipelines.
• Familiarity with agile and DevOps tools (JIRA Confluence CI/CD tooling Git).
• Experience working with distributed or vendor-supported teams.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern (e.g. even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system plus referral programme
• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner
• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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