Master Data Management Product Owner

About the role

The MDM Product Owner is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering Master Data Management capabilities that support trusted, governed, and business-ready master data across the enterprise. This role manages the MDM roadmap, user experience, workflow design, business rules, and integration requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the MDM product vision, roadmap, backlog, and prioritization in partnership with business stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product decisions.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, release reviews, and prioritization discussions.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business teams, MDM, QE, engineering, and downstream system owners.
• Facilitate requirement-gathering, design discussions, issue triage, and prioritization sessions.
• Communicate product decisions, release impacts, open questions, and risks to both technical and business audiences.
• Define data standards, validation rules, business rules, stewardship workflows, and Stibo MDM product requirements.
• Partner with business and governance teams to resolve data ownership, definition, and rule gaps.
• Analyze and profile data to identify quality issues, inconsistencies, root causes, and product improvement opportunities.
• Partner with MDM developers and data engineers to design, validate, refine, and support platform behavior.
• Define integration requirements between MDM and upstream/downstream enterprise systems.
• Partner with engineering teams on source-to-target mappings, data contracts, validation logic, transformation expectations, and error handling.
• Support triage of integration errors, data mismatches, validation failures, and downstream synchronization issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Over 7 years of experience across product ownership, MDM, data management, business analysis, governance, or enterprise systems delivery.
• Experience managing product backlogs, writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and delivering in Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of MDM concepts, including data domains, hierarchies, governance, stewardship, workflows, and data quality.
• Demonstrated ability to make product decisions and align cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of SQL and dataset analysis for profiling, validation, troubleshooting, and requirements clarification.
• Understanding of enterprise integration patterns, including API, batch, and file-based integrations.

Preferred Skills

• Stibo MDM (STEP) experience.
• Exposure to Snowflake, dbt, MuleSoft, SFTP/Axway, AWS Glue, S3, or other cloud/integration platforms.
• Experience with data governance tools such as Atlan.
• Experience with Jira, Agile delivery, QE coordination, UAT sign-off, and release management.

Success Outcomes

• Improved usability, adoption, and operational efficiency of MDM workflows.
• Improved data quality, completeness, consistency, and trust.
• Clear, actionable backlog aligned to business priorities.
• Reduced recurring integration issues, data mismatches, and downstream synchronization problems.

Pay

Min Hourly Rate: $70.00, Max Hourly Rate: $75.00

Schedule

Hybrid Work Model: Monday-Thursday onsite, Friday remote, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM