Senior Technical Lead – Master Data Management

atBlood Cancer UnitedRemote

United States Full-time Full-stack EngineerSenior$96k – $139k/year

Posted Oct 21

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the master data lifecycle for constituents, member organizations, employees, programs, and partner entities.

• Establish and uphold golden record standards, field-level merge rules, and survivorship criteria.

• Define, set up, test, and monitor entity-matching guidelines across CRM and other operational systems.

• Outline and maintain master data registry requirements and content.

• Act as the subject-matter expert in MDM for match/merge and survivorship criteria.

• Conduct regular MDM data-quality assessments to measure accuracy, completeness, uniqueness, consistency, and timeliness.

• Assist with deduplication, data cleansing, bulk remediation, and exception-management workflows.

• Specify MDM data-quality rules and acceptance criteria; configure platform checks and collaborate on SQL, Python, Power Query, or enterprise-tool automation.

• Prioritize, triage, and resolve master data issues.

• Monitor and report data-quality metrics, trends, and remediation progress to the Director of Data Governance.

• Collaborate with Systems Development Engineering to disseminate master data across CRM, marketing, and analytics platforms.

• Detect and rectify data fragmentation and inconsistencies across systems.

• Define MDM mapping requirements and validate mappings across systems.

• Support data migration and system implementation projects with validated, cleansed, and standardized master data.

• Establish and configure standardization rules for names, addresses, organization types, and structured fields.

• Create and maintain MDM documentation, matching-rule specifications, survivorship logic, domain definitions, and business rules.

• Document entity-resolution decisions, data exceptions, process lineage, and transformations from source to golden record.

• Contribute to the wider data governance documentation library of the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of progressive experience in MDM, data quality, or enterprise data management.

• Senior-level ownership of complex MDM delivery and cross-functional workstreams.

• Strong proficiency in SQL for data profiling, match-rule validation, duplicate analysis, and remediation.

• Familiarity with Python or Power Query is preferred.

• Working knowledge of enterprise integration concepts and platforms.

• Proven ability to manage and deliver MDM initiatives in a resource-constrained setting without dedicated MDM platform software.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to engage stakeholders effectively.

• Expertise in entity resolution and master data design, including deterministic and probabilistic matching strategies, survivorship logic, and golden record governance at an enterprise level.

• Familiarity with CRM or ERP platforms and their native data management capabilities.

• Ability to translate complex MDM concepts into clear documentation and practical guidance for non-technical stakeholders.

• Hands-on experience with administering a dedicated MDM platform.

• Experience with enterprise MDM systems such as Informatica MDM, Semarchy, or Stibo STEP is required.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field is preferred; equivalent experience will be accepted.

• Experience with nonprofit CRM platforms such as Salesforce, Raiser's Edge NXT, or Microsoft Dynamics 365 is preferred.

• Exposure to cloud data platforms like Snowflake or BigQuery is preferred.

• Knowledge of the DAMA-DMBOK MDM knowledge area or an equivalent data management framework is preferred.

• Experience in life sciences nonprofit, blood cancer, rare disease, clinical research, health outcomes, constituent, member, or patient data is a strong plus.