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: • Experience: Experience in IBM MDM Advanced Edition as an architect or team lead, and in at least two large implementations • Technical skills: Knowledge of tools like ETL (Data Stage) and associated tools that work with IBM MDM • Communication skills: Strong communication skills and the ability to interact with clients' architects, other technical decision makers, and offshore technical teams • Professional qualifications: A minimum Bachelor's Degree in Science or Engineering • Responsibilities: 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 • Ability to review co-existence architecture patterns on customer Master Data Management • Advise IBM MDM technical architecture solutions and work with other senior architects Duties and Responsibilities: • Review and assure key architecture design documents, decisions, vision and solution architecture • Challenges proposed solutions, architecture patterns and ensure best practices are followed and best of breed solutions are designed/architected/implemented • Review ACE (IIB – broker), IBM MDM, IDK, publication to source systems design flows • Review data architecture design (customer master data model – both logical and physical, in particular in IBM MDM system) • Participate in all MDM workshops (end to end) and provide assurance services • 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: • Large scale MDM implementation using IBM MDM both SE and AE. In particular Advanced Edition on Co-existence parttern • IBM ETL Data Stage, Quality Stage, DB2, ACE, IIB, BAW on Azure cloud • Experience in architecting solutions for large transformational new MDM implementation programs • 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. • Architecting mission critical and high performing systems • Ability to review JAVA code • Data governance, catalogue, stewardship, DQ rules best practices etc in the context of MDM program. • Good experience in Requirements Analysis and Solution Architecture Design, Data modelling, ETL, data integration and data migration design • Well versed with Waterfall, Agile, Scrum and similar project delivery methodologies. Experience Required: • 15 years of proven experience in the Software industry • 8 years of proven experience working as a IBM MDM solution architect (end to end)