Lead Informatica MDM Architect — AWS & Data Quality

Cognizant; Cheyenne (WY); On-site; USD 109,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays and PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks an experienced Lead Informatica MDM Developer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise Master Data Management solutions. You will lead Golden Record management, data quality, and integrations across AWS and cloud platforms, coordinating onshore/offshore delivery teams.

Strong expertise in Informatica MDM, IDQ/IDMC, and PowerCenter is required, along with API design, data governance, and stakeholder leadership to drive data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years in Master Data Management, data integration, or enterprise data platform development.
• Hands-on Informatica MDM (multi-domain): data models, match/merge rules, trust config, workflows, SIF APIs.
• Experience with IDQ, IDMC, PowerCenter in implementations and support.
• Strong API integration, messaging, batch processing, and data synchronization knowledge.
• Experience with AWS services: DynamoDB, CloudWatch; familiarity with Snowflake and cloud data platforms.
• Production support, incident management, and observability tooling experience.
• Strong SQL, data modeling, data quality, governance, and MDM expertise.
• CI/CD, GitHub, automated tests, and DevOps practices; strong stakeholder management and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain Informatica MDM configurations: models, rules, trust, workflows, SIF APIs.
• Onboard source systems into the MDM ecosystem and support data migration activities.
• Develop and support IDQ solutions for cleansing, validation, standardization, and governance.
• Design and implement inbound APIs, outbound events, MQ integrations, and data exchange services.
• Manage Golden Record creation, stewardship, data lineage, survivorship, and governance processes.
• Build AWS-based data synchronization and caching with DynamoDB; integrate with Snowflake and data platforms.
• Monitor platform health using Dynatrace, Kibana/ELK, CloudWatch; support 24x7 operations.
• Develop automated tests, unit tests, and performance tests; contribute to CI/CD and release management.
• Collaborate with business and tech stakeholders; coordinate onsite-offshore delivery teams; provide leadership.

Skills

Informatica MDM

IDQ

IDMC

PowerCenter

API integration

AWS

Snowflake

Observability tooling

CI/CD

GitHub

DevOps

SQL

Data governance

Stakeholder mgmt

Mentoring

Delivery leadership

Onsite-offshore

Tools

Dynatrace

Kibana/ELK

CloudWatch

DynamoDB

Snowflake

Job description

Cognizant seeks an experienced Lead Informatica MDM Developer to design, implement, and optimize enterprise Master Data Management solutions. You will lead Golden Record management, data quality, and integrations across AWS and cloud platforms, coordinating onshore/offshore delivery teams.

Strong expertise in Informatica MDM, IDQ/IDMC, and PowerCenter is required, along with API design, data governance, and stakeholder leadership to drive data-driven decisions.