Master Data Management (MDM) Consultant

Role Summary

We are looking for Master Data Management (MDM) Consultant to join our MDM practice and solve our clients' MDM projects and implementations.

EPAM is investing significantly in Master Data Management consulting practice. The goal is to enable clients to achieve better business outcomes by governing and managing Master Data initiatives more efficiently and implementing modern and innovative technology solutions. This is a high growth area and a high visibility, customer facing role with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skillset and build your career. In this position, you will solve complex and unique problems for your client leveraging your expertise in working with modern data stack and ensuring data reliability, security and quality with an agile mindset.

Responsibilities - Engage deeply with senior executives to define and execute Enterprise-wide Master Data Management programs and business-cases, often becoming the "trusted advisor"

• Lead Master Data Management assessments to help clients gradually improve capabilities from current state to the viable state of maturity by creating strategy, roadmaps and implementation plans
• Leverage your deep understanding of business and IT capabilities to build a Master Data Management technology solution which help to innovate and create value across the client organization
• Provide end-to-end services from strategy ideation and provide and extend knowledge of MDM solutions
• Lead customer conversations and architectural teams to define modern Data Management architecture and developing practices to manage data through its lifecycle
• Support business development efforts, including proposal development, Statements of Work, and client presentations
• Create consulting offerings and reusable templates
• Deliver client projects in one or more solution areas: Product Information Management Customer and Supplier Master Data Management and Digital Asset Management
• Be involved in clients' project initiatives such MDM Application implementation strategy and planning, Requirements gathering, and technical work with other Data Solutions team members
• Document and execute implementation MDM application strategy technical configuration

Requirements - Bachelor's or Master's degree in information technology or related discipline

• Minimum 3 years in a Consulting role leading Master Data Management initiatives
• Deep practical subject matter expertise in at least 2-3 Master Data areas: Product, Customer or Vendor MDM
• Technology expertise with one or several MDM technologies, e.g. Informatica, Stibo, SAP, Ataccama, Semarchy, Tibco, Riversand, Profisee, Reltio
• Understanding of data governance frameworks (DAMA, DCAM), methodologies, processes and how to implement them
• Experienced in building relationships with directors and C-levels stakeholders by developing a deep understanding of the customer business and driving data-driven insights
• Practical expertise in conducting maturity assessment and gap analysis and providing strategic roadmap and solution implementation guidelines
• Hands-on experience in running customer workshops and other collaboration sessions to discover customer priorities, understand current state, and determine maturity/readiness to execute on enterprise Data Management & Governance vision
• Expertise on industry & market trends with tools scoring model for selecting fit for purpose technology solution and tailoring and applying industry best practices at scale
• Extensive practical expertise with modern data stack, agile environments and high-end technologies
• Ability to work independently, manage small engagements with multiple work threads, or parts of large engagements
• Excellent verbal and written command of the English language, to drive client side discussions and draft concise documentation when required

Nice to have - Experience in leading data transformation projects

• Technology expertise in modern Big Data & Cloud stack: Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, etc
• Practical expertise in implementation of Data Governance for modern cloud data lakes

We offer - Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, agile, software engineering culture

• Benefit program (5 weeks of vacation, 5 paid sick days, meal vouchers, cafeteria and recreation bonuses, reimbursement of glasses, contribution to pension fund)
• Referral bonuses for recommended candidates
• English language courses
• Great learning and development opportunities, including in-house professional training, career advisory and coaching, sponsored professional certifications, well-being programs, LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more

Certain benefits and perks may be subject to eligibility requirements and may be available only after you have passed your probationary period.