Description
Master Data Solution Lead required for a 12 months contract, the job spec is below:Description:
The Master Data Solution Lead is responsible for the technical realization of Master Data solutions, ensuring each Master Data solution is designed and implemented in accordance with enterprise guidelines and Master Data standards/best practice.
The Master Solution Lead will work closely with project teams on their solution design to ensure effective implementation of Master Data projects. Working in the MLIT Delivery Management group the Master Data Solution Lead shall engage with Project Managers, technical project teams, solution vendors and platform vendors through the solution life cycle with prime responsibility from solution design/modelling through to deployment.
A key part of this role is to consult and collaborate with the Enterprise Architect team in defining the overall Master Data solution and integration approaches and mentor delivery/development teams in accordance with enterprise standards.
We are seeking a Lead Architect with a balanced view of all key architectural quality metrics such as performance, scalability, reliability, availability, agility and interoperability. The role requires knowledge of the principles, practices, and procedures used in all phases of full life cycle applications and systems development, engineering, programming, and analysis at a highly technical level.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Work with delivery teams to develop a business-critical, maintainable and achievable Master Data solutions
- Provide leadership and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects
- Advise senior management and various delivery teams on related technical strategies
- Hands-on participation in the implementation of the technology, architecture, including ability and desire to get hands-on and work side-by-side with developers
- Work closely with Enterprise Architecture to drive the adoption and implementation of the Master Data governance processes and architecture design principles across various development teams throughout the full life cycle of the projects
- Develop guidelines, standards and process as needed, ensuring alignment with Enterprise Architecture
- Build and maintain a catalogue of architectural decisions
- Technical coordination across projects and teams in the portfolio
- Escalation layer for technical issues - single point of contact for Enterprise Architecture for the projects
- Assist in identification and definition of non-functional requirements and Technical Architecture Documents, and working together with the relevant stakeholders for preparing deployment
- Monitor data model - align and feedback changes to the Enterprise Logical Data Model
Skills/abilities required:
Technical skills:
- 5-7 years of experience architecting, leading complicated Master Data projects based on an Informatica platform
- Excellent understanding of the following
o Master Data Governance
o Informatica Platform (Informatica MDM Hub/IDD, Informatica Power Center, Informatica Data Quality, Informatica Data Director etc.)
o Web services, Enterprise Service Bus
o Legacy to Informatica integration and Transformation
o User Interfaces
o Business rules management (workflow) - Experience in different development methodologies (Agile, Lean Product Development, Waterfall)
- Excellent knowledge in application of design techniques, methodologies, and languages
- Excellent knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)