Senior Informatica MDM Lead: Data Quality & Golden Records

Cognizant; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 109,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Lead Informatica MDM Developer to design, develop, support, and enhance enterprise Master Data Management solutions using Informatica MDM, IDQ, and IDMC platforms. This role focuses on Golden Record management, source onboarding, data quality, integrations, and cloud-based synchronization.

The ideal candidate will lead onsite-offshore delivery teams, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to drive governance

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience in Master Data Management, Data Integration, or Enterprise Data Platform development.
• Hands-on Informatica MDM (Multi-Domain): data models, match and merge rules, trust/config, workflows, and SIF APIs.
• Experience with Informatica Data Quality (IDQ), IDMC, and PowerCenter.
• Strong knowledge of API integration, messaging, batch processing, and data synchronization architectures.
• Experience with AWS services including DynamoDB, CloudWatch; Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms.
• Experience supporting production environments, monitoring tools, incident management, and DevOps practices.
• Strong SQL, data governance, and stakeholder management; leadership of onsite-offshore teams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain Informatica MDM configurations and data models.
• Configure and integrate source systems into the MDM ecosystem; onboarding and data migration.
• Develop and support IDQ solutions for data cleansing, validation, and governance.
• Design and implement inbound APIs, outbound events, MQ integrations, and data exchange services.
• Manage Golden Record creation, survivorship, lineage, and master data governance processes.
• Build AWS-based data synchronization and caching with DynamoDB; integrate with Snowflake.
• Monitor platform health and operational performance; support 24x7 production operations and incidents.
• Develop automated testing and CI/CD pipelines; contribute to release management and GitHub governance.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to gather requirements and provide recommendations.
• Act as onsite technical lead and coordinate delivery with offshore teams.

Skills

Informatica MDM (Multi-Domain)

Data integration

SQL & data modeling

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Onsite-offshore leadership

Tools

Informatica IDQ

Informatica IDMC

PowerCenter

Snowflake

AWS (DynamoDB, CloudWatch)

Dynatrace / Kibana/ELK

GitHub

Job description

Cognizant in the United States is seeking a Lead Informatica MDM Developer to design, develop, support, and enhance enterprise Master Data Management solutions using Informatica MDM, IDQ, and IDMC platforms. This role focuses on Golden Record management, source onboarding, data quality, integrations, and cloud-based synchronization.

The ideal candidate will lead onsite-offshore delivery teams, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to drive governance