Configuration and Master Data Governance Lead

Job Description

At Cooper Vision, a business unit of Cooper Companies (Nasdaq: COO), we’re driven by a unified purpose of helping people experience life’s beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing. As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day.

Through our diverse lens portfolio, we tackle the toughest vision challenges – including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia. We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers. Learn more at

The Configuration Analyst is responsible for governing, maintaining, and controlling configuration and master data across the global manufacturing systems platform. This role ensures that base configurations, global standards, and site-specific configurations are accurately defined, maintained, and promoted across environments in a controlled and compliant manner.

The position plays a critical role in ensuring data consistency, traceability, and system integrity by managing configuration models, overseeing data changes, and establishing governance practices. This role will help establish modern configuration management practices that enable configuration assets to be version-controlled, validated, promoted, and governed through standardized delivery and change management practices. The role collaborates closely with Dev Ops and development teams to support deployments while maintaining strict control over configuration and master data within a highly regulated environment.

• Own and manage configuration and master data governance across all manufacturing execution environments
• Define and support modern, enterprise-wide configuration management practices, ensuring configuration assets are managed, version-controlled, traceable, auditable, and deployable through standardized processes
• Ensure all configuration and master data changes are documented, reviewed, approved, traceable, and auditable in accordance with governance and regulatory requirements
• Develop and maintain data templates, configuration templates, and data load files, ensuring proper formatting and data quality
• Support data quality and readiness activities, including profiling, cleansing, transformation, and exception analysis, enabling business data owners to review and approve data changes
• Execute and support data migration and ETL processes, including extraction from legacy systems, transformation, reconciliation, quality checks, and loading into target platforms
• Query and validate data using SQL, ensuring alignment between database structures and application requirements
• Partner with Dev Ops and technical teams to support environment promotion, deployment readiness, and configuration alignment through automated and standardized deployment processes
• Maintain documentation for configuration structures, data models, and governance processes
• Support system testing efforts (SIT, UAT) by preparing and maintaining consistent, reliable datasets for business testing and verification
• Monitor and resolve data and configuration issues, performing root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions
• Provide guidance, training, and support to teams on configuration standards, data management practices, and template usage

• Occasional travel (approximately 5–10%) to support system implementations and go-live activities at manufacturing sites

• 3–5 years of experience in configuration management, master data management, data analysis, business systems analysis or similar roles
• Experience managing data and…