MDM Data Quality & Governance Lead

Timken; Canton (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Timken is seeking a highly analytical Senior MDM Analyst specializing in Data Quality and Governance to join our team in Canton, Ohio. You will measure, improve, and maintain the integrity of our enterprise master data using Informatica tools, design automated quality rules, and build dashboards to track data health.

You will partner with business users and data owners to translate complex requirements into technical data quality rules, while enforcing governance policies and supporting data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, engineering or IT and 4+ years’ experience in Master Data Management.
• Hands-on experience implementing and supporting MDM solutions.
• Proficiency with developing and deploying MDM match/merge workflows, survivorship, and business rules.
• Strong SQL skills for profiling, data validation, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, test and deploy automated data quality rules, validation logic and parsing routines using Informatica.
• Partner directly with cross-functional business users and data owners to translate complex business requirements into clear, technical data quality rules and validation logic.
• Create and maintain data quality rules, profiling jobs, cleansing routines, and monitoring dashboards.
• Configure and optimize matching, merging, and survivorship rules within Informatica MDM to build trusted golden records, including match/merge rules, survivorship logic, and data stewardship workflows.
• Execute large-scale data cleansing and data enrichment projects to remediate data issues.
• Implement and maintain Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) components: metadata harvesting, business glossary, policy enforcement, lineage, and data discovery features.
• Create and maintain data models, source-to-target mappings, and integration patterns between MDM and CDGC to ensure accurate metadata, lineage, and catalog synchronization.
• Build, maintain, and analyze end-to-end data lineage and metadata catalogs to ensure transparency and compliance.
• Assist in the development, execution, and continuous improvement of the enterprise data governance framework.
• Provide business teams with the necessary training, documentation, and context regarding data governance processes, master data workflows, and data quality metrics.
• Enforce data management policies, standards, and data-handling procedures across transactional and reference systems and operationalize data governance policies by mapping data elements to business terms.
• Collaborate with Data Governance, Data Owners, business SMEs, and downstream system teams to define source-to-target mappings, data standards, and workflows.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes and performance optimizations.
• Produce technical documentation, runbooks, data lineage, and knowledge transfer materials.

Skills

SQL

MDM

Data governance

Data quality

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Business/Engineering

Master’s degree in IT/Business/Engineering

Tools

Informatica

SAP ECC

Job description

Timken is seeking a highly analytical Senior MDM Analyst specializing in Data Quality and Governance to join our team in Canton, Ohio. You will measure, improve, and maintain the integrity of our enterprise master data using Informatica tools, design automated quality rules, and build dashboards to track data health.

You will partner with business users and data owners to translate complex requirements into technical data quality rules, while enforcing governance policies and supporting data