MDM Architect

MDM Architect Individual Contributor (Full-Time)

Location: Westerville OH

Role Summary

The MDM Architect is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining and evolving the enterprise master data architecture across multiple domains including Customer Supplier Item and Product Hierarchy with a mandate to expand into additional domains over time. This role operates in an environment with highly complex regionally varying master data processes and a disparate application landscape where master data is created modified and consumed across multiple systems and business workflows.

Master data is touched by multiple business functionsincluding Finance Accounting Sales Marketing Service and Operationseach with differing requirements ownership models and timing of change. Rules governing golden records duplication and data lifecycle vary by region and domain and in many cases are still evolving. This complexity requires an architect who can design scalable resilient and pragmatic solutions that protect the integrity of the golden record while enabling the business to operate at speed.

The MDM Architect partners closely with global business and IT stakeholders to translate data strategy governance objectives and business needs into executable architectures and delivered outcomes. The role demands strong technical depth the ability to work across ambiguity and the interpersonal skills to influence decisions and drive alignment without direct authority. Success is enabled by delivering trusted timely and operationally reliable master data that supports downstream operational and analytical use at enterprise scale.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Platform Strategy

• Define and evolve the MDM domain and solution architecture across multiple master data domains.
• Establish scalable architecture patterns for mastering integration data quality and distribution of master data.
• Translate enterprise data strategy into actionable architecture decisions that can be executed incrementally.
• Ensure architectural consistency while allowing for variability in regional processes and data ownership models.
• Provide architectural direction that enables future domain expansion without rework.

Golden Record Data Quality and Governance Enablement

• Define and implement golden record strategies including survivorship ownership and lifecycle management.
• Design technical enablement for match merge and de-duplication accounting for varying business rules.
• Partner with governance and stewardship teams to embed data quality controls exception handling and accountability into the platform.
• Enable measurable improvements in data accuracy completeness and consistency across consuming systems.
• Ensure governance concepts are translated into practical enforceable technical solutions.

Systems and Integration

• Architect resilient scalable integrations between MDM and upstream/downstream enterprise systems.
• Design patterns for distributed data creation and maintenance including synchronization and conflict resolution.
• Ensure master data is delivered accurately and on time to operational and analytical platforms including the data lake.
• Define integration standards that support reliability performance observability and recoverability.
• Reduce operational fragility through simplified data flows and clear system responsibilities.

Security Compliance and Risk Management

• Design solutions that meet security access control auditability and compliance requirements.
• Ensure appropriate controls are built into master data creation change and distribution processes.
• Proactively identify architectural data and operational risks and drive mitigation strategies.
• Partner with risk audit and compliance stakeholders to ensure solutions meet enterprise control expectations.

Stakeholder Partnership and Influence

• Build strong trust-based relationships with business and IT stakeholders across multiple regions.
• Facilitate alignment on data ownership decision rights and architectural trade-offs.
• Influence outcomes without formal authority by providing clear recommendations grounded in data and impact.
• Act as a unifying technical voice across functions that depend on master data.

Delivery Leadership

• Provide hands-on architectural leadership for complex multi-workstream initiatives.
• Create solution architectures for projects ensuring designs are executable and aligned to platform strategy.
• Partner with delivery teams to remove ambiguity unblock execution and drive timely outcomes.
• Enable the business to realize value from data by delivering clean trusted master data to analytical platforms.
• Design and promote operational monitoring and resilience mechanisms to achieve high availability and reliability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field. 1012 years of experience in IT/data architecture with significant experience in MDM architecture and implementation.
• Proven delivery of enterprise-scale MDM solutions in complex multi-system environments.
• Strong mastery of MDM concepts and patterns including golden record design match/merge survivorship hierarchy management and stewardship workflows.
• Strong expertise in data modeling and master/reference data design.
• Hands-on experience with data integration and ETL/ELT tools and integration patterns.
• Advanced SQL and strong relational database skills (e.g. Oracle SQL Server DB2 Snowflake or similar).
• Strong understanding of data quality management (profiling rules monitoring remediation).
• Experience enabling or supporting data governance and stewardship operating practices.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments providing architectural guidance to delivery teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence without direct authority across technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience designing solutions with security auditability and compliance considerations (including SOX-relevant controls).
• Architecture level understanding of how enterprise AI platforms work. Familiarity with AWS bedrock. Ability to use Claude code or similar to design agentic flows and integrate them with MDM workflows.

Core Competencies (How Success Is Achieved)

• Enterprise thinking: Designs solutions that scale across regions systems and business functions.
• Pragmatic standardization: Balances global standards with regional realities and operational constraints.
• Influence without authority: Aligns stakeholders through clarity credibility and structured decision-making.
• Execution focus: Converts architecture into deliverable increments and measurable operational outcomes.
• Relationship management: Ability to network with system and business stakeholders across multiple geographies and drive process and technology change.
• Learning agility: Quickly ramps up on unfamiliar platforms domains and operating models.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertivs Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

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About Vertiv

Vertiv is a $10.2billion global critical infrastructure and data center technology company. We ensure customers vital applications run continuously by bringing together hardware software analytics and ongoing services. Our portfolio includes power cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus Ohio USA Vertiv employs around 20000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit to learn more.

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