MDM & Data Governance Lead

Overview

A client in the transportation and logistics industry is looking for an experienced MDM & Data Governance Lead to serve as the strategic and operational bridge between business leadership and the technical teams that build and maintain the enterprise Single Source of Truth (SSOT) platform — a custom-built MDM solution hosted in AWS, covering Customers, Locations, Contracts, Vehicles, and Workforce (Passengers planned).

This high-visibility contractor role demands technical credibility, stakeholder gravitas, and disciplined governance leadership.

Approximately 60-75% of this role is focused on SSOT platform leadership and vendor management; the remaining 25-40% is dedicated to data governance program stewardship. These two areas are intentionally integrated — the quality of data definitions directly shapes the master data model, and vice versa.

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• 7+ years of experience in data management disciplines, with the majority of that experience focused on Master Data Management.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience owning or leading an MDM program — not just supporting one.
• Direct experience with data governance programs, including data owner and data steward management, data definition governance, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience managing offshore vendor teams or outsourced development partners, including holding vendors accountable to delivery quality and timelines.
• Functional fluency in MDM platform concepts: golden records, survivorship, matching and merging, domain modeling.
• Working knowledge of data quality tooling — Soda experience is a strong differentiator.
• Familiarity with data catalog and lineage tools — Atlan experience is a strong differentiator.
• Ability to write and interpret SQL queries (PostgreSQL preferred) at a working level — sufficient to interrogate SSOT data, validate definitions, and support ad-hoc business reporting. This is not a hands-on engineering role.
• Comfort with AWS-hosted data environments and modern data platform concepts.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (Power BI preferred) to partner effectively with the BI team on SSOT dashboards.
• Soda experience
• Atlan experience