Introduction

At IBM, architects work to understand needs and create high-quality solutions that make meaningful impact. They possess knowledge of market leading technologies along with industry and business skills to influence outcomes. They are leaders, who take responsibility for an end-to-end solution delivery, starting from requirement gathering through solution architecture design to successful implementation and deployment.

We are looking for a highly motivated and innovative Master Data Management (MDM) solution Architect, who'll join our IBM Data & AI Software services organization, the Technology Expert Labs, in the beautiful city of Kraków, Poland. We're looking for a person with a passion to the world of databases, large data transactions systems and mainframe computing. As individual contributor this position will work directly with cross functional teams, product management, support and engineering to build and transform data systems at big, enterprise customers.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an MDM Solution Architect, you would be responsible for:

• Working closely with client architects to implement best-of-class MDM solutions

• Actively participate in business requirements gathering sessions and understand client requirements

• Create, present and get sign-offs for design documents and unit test scenarios

• Assist PM in planning and driving low level project tasks

• Mentor team of technical consultants and oversee their work items

• Create release documents and help build and deploy code across servers

• Create low level design documents and unit test cases

• Debug critical technical issues and provide prompt resolutions

• Highlight technical issues and challenges and propose creative solutions

• Train junior technical resources in MDM/Match360

IBM Technology Expert Labs is a team that is client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical. You'll collaborate with clients to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges. 

Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of the team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators-always willing to help and be helped-as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us.

What we offer:

• Working for a top 5 IT company according to Forbes 2022 best employers ranking

• International and prestigious projects

• Highly skilled teams of experts

• Wide range of IBM trainings and certificates

• Access to Udemy, Harvard Business Review, O'Reilly, Interskill, IBM AI Skills Academy

And what is more:

• Contract of employment

• Competitive compensation - salary range, depending on your skills and experience

• Private medical care and life insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Sport, charity & other networking groups

• Summer / winter camps for children

• Discounts with IBM employee badge

• Referral Bonus Program

• No dress code

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Deep experience in solution design and implementing IBM MDM CE/Product Master, Data Modelling, Scrum Agile Methodologies

• Experience in leading MDM projects from sales handover to go-live.

• Experience in data quality management, including data cleansing, matching, and linking.

• Creating specs, work flows, hierarchy, category, catalogues, collaboration area, attribution collection to support data modelling using MDM Collaboration Server

• Solid experience with a J2EE environment including experience with application servers (WebSphere, Weblogic)

• Solid experience with Java and databases such as DB2 and Oracle, understanding of data modeling and strong SQL skills a must

• Experience developing and deploying in a Services Oriented Architecture

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in data governance, including data stewardship, data management policies, and data quality frameworks.

• Experience in data analytics, including data visualization, reporting, and dashboarding.

• Experience in cloud-based MDM solutions, such as Salesforce MDM or Microsoft Azure MDM.

• Familiarity with IBM Match360, Certifications in MDM solutions, such as Informatica, IBM, or SAP.

• Good to have Knowledge: IBM Infosphere Master Data Management(AESE), IBM RSA tool, Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Spring boot, OpenShift, GitHub, JIRA

• Knowledge in second European language on communicative level

About Business UnitGlobal Delivery Center in Krakow, Poland is a brand-new Team enabling IBM's Customers in EMEA region. We are a young and diversified Team of professionals, young talents, all generating impact, leveraging best practices, knowledge, years of experience. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic, entrepreneurial team that supports Enterprise clients running IBM Z that have a charter to transform, automate, and optimize their most critical transaction processing applications and data that support their core businesses.

IBM Technology Expert Labs consultants have the deepest technical expertise and experience in mainframe application platform technologies, they are experts in advising clients on modernization and optimization of database-driven, secure, integrated platforms for high-performance online transaction and data processing, assisting client IT teams advising them on preparing for a hybrid landscape as they modernize their applications.

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