Lead Informatica MDM Architect — Data Quality & AWS

Cognizant; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 109,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant, a leader in AI & Analytics, seeks a Lead Informatica MDM Developer to design, develop, and support enterprise MDM solutions using Informatica MDM, IDQ, and IDMC. You will own Golden Records, onboarding, data quality, and integrations, coordinating on-site and offshore delivery.

The role requires strong MDM and SQL skills, hands-on data modeling, and experience with AWS (DynamoDB, CloudWatch), Snowflake, and CI/CD with GitHub.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience in Master Data Management, Data Integration, or Enterprise Data Platform development.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Informatica MDM (Multi-Domain), including data models, match and merge rules, trust configuration, workflows, and SIF APIs.
• Experience with Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), IDMC, and PowerCenter implementations and support.
• Strong knowledge of API integration, messaging services, batch processing, enterprise integration patterns, and data synchronization architectures.
• Experience with AWS services including DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and cloud-based data integration solutions.
• Familiarity with Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms for real-time and batch data synchronization.
• Experience supporting production environments, monitoring tools, incident management, and operational support processes.
• Strong SQL, data modeling, data quality, data governance, and master data management expertise.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, troubleshooting, and technical leadership skills.
• Experience leading onsite-offshore delivery teams and mentoring junior developers is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain Informatica MDM configurations, including Match Rules, Trust Frameworks, Data Models, SIF APIs, and MDM Packages.
• Configure and integrate source systems into the MDM ecosystem while supporting onboarding and data migration activities.
• Develop and support Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) solutions for data cleansing, validation, standardization, and governance.
• Design and implement inbound APIs, outbound events, MQ integrations, and enterprise data exchange services.
• Manage Golden Record creation, stewardship, data lineage, survivorship, and master data governance processes.
• Build and maintain AWS-based data synchronization and caching solutions using DynamoDB and integrations with Snowflake and enterprise data platforms.
• Monitor platform health and operational performance using Dynatrace, Kibana/ELK, CloudWatch, XMatters, and related observability tools.
• Support batch scheduling, job monitoring, production operations, and critical incident response in a 24x7 support environment.
• Develop automated testing, unit testing, and performance testing solutions using tools such as Cucumber, JUnit, and JMeter.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, release management, and source code governance using GitHub and DevOps practices.
• Work directly with business and technology stakeholders to gather requirements, conduct solution reviews, and provide technical recommendations.
• Act as the onsite technical lead and primary point of contact while coordinating delivery activities with offshore teams.

Skills

Master Data Management

Data Integration

API integration

AWS services

SQL

Data governance

DevOps practices

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Tools

Informatica MDM

Informatica IDQ

Informatica IDMC

PowerCenter

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

CloudWatch

DynamoDB

Snowflake

Job description

Cognizant, a leader in AI & Analytics, seeks a Lead Informatica MDM Developer to design, develop, and support enterprise MDM solutions using Informatica MDM, IDQ, and IDMC. You will own Golden Records, onboarding, data quality, and integrations, coordinating on-site and offshore delivery.

The role requires strong MDM and SQL skills, hands-on data modeling, and experience with AWS (DynamoDB, CloudWatch), Snowflake, and CI/CD with GitHub.