Reltio MDM Architect - Lead Data Mastery & Cloud

Persistent Systems; Richardson (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Talent development & education/cert.;

Cutting-edge technologies

Employee engagement initiatives; flex.

Insurance coverage: life, accident, M‑

Job summary

Persistent, a global AI-led digital engineering partner, is seeking a seasoned Enterprise Data Architect to lead the end-to-end Reltio MDM/Data Cloud initiatives in Richardson, TX. The role demands 12+ years of data-management experience and deep expertise with Reltio and API integrations.

You will design data models, govern data quality, and guide CI/CD practices, collaborating with senior stakeholders across cloud, CRM/ERP, and analytics platforms.

Qualifications

• 12–15 years of enterprise data-management experience, including hands-on architecture and delivery of large-scale MDM programs.
• Deep knowledge of multidomain data modeling, metadata configuration, data quality, hierarchy/relationship management, reference data, crosswalks, match/merge and survivorship.
• Strong experience with Reltio APIs, JSON, SQL, data profiling, data migration and integration patterns across batch, near-real-time and event-driven systems.
• Experience integrating Reltio with cloud platforms, data lakes/warehouses, CRM/ERP and downstream operational or analytical applications.
• Working knowledge of security, privacy, governance, lineage, audit controls, Agile delivery and CI/CD tools.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams and technical specifications, estimate work, manage technical risks and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Reltio certification and experience with Reltio Integration Hub, workflow/stewardship, RDM and cloud‑native services are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture and delivery of Reltio MDM / Reltio Data Cloud solutions for customer, location, product, supplier and other master-data domains.
• Lead discovery workshops; translate business, data-governance and non-functional requirements into scalable solution designs, roadmaps and implementation standards.
• Design Reltio entity, relationship, interaction and reference-data models, including attributes, crosswalks, source mappings and tenant configuration.
• Define and optimize data-quality, cleanse, match, merge and survivorship rules to create trusted golden records while minimizing false positives and duplicates.
• Architect batch and real-time integrations using Reltio REST APIs, event streaming and enterprise integration/ETL platforms; establish error handling, reconciliation, monitoring and restartability.
• Design workflows and stewardship processes for data review, merge/unmerge, data change requests and exception management.Establish security architecture covering roles, access controls, privacy, auditability and environment separation.
• Define DevSecOps and CI/CD practices for version‑controlled Reltio configuration, automated testing, deployment and promotion across environments.
• Guide performance tuning, capacity planning, production support and root‑cause analysis; ensure availability, scalability and operational readiness.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, coding/configuration standards, documentation, mentoring and coordination with business, data, application, cloud and vendor teams.

Skills

Reltio MDM

Reltio Data Cloud

API

SQL

Data governance

CI/CD

Tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

Persistent, a global AI-led digital engineering partner, is seeking a seasoned Enterprise Data Architect to lead the end-to-end Reltio MDM/Data Cloud initiatives in Richardson, TX. The role demands 12+ years of data-management experience and deep expertise with Reltio and API integrations.

You will design data models, govern data quality, and guide CI/CD practices, collaborating with senior stakeholders across cloud, CRM/ERP, and analytics platforms.