Senior Architect - MDM

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the organization's IT architecture framework, ensuring alignment with business objectives, industry best practices, and emerging technologies.
• Serve as the hands-on technical architect and subject matter expert for Data Governance, Data Quality, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Data Catalog, and AI-enabled data management platforms.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise data architecture standards, canonical data models, metadata frameworks, and governance practices that promote trusted, discoverable, and reusable data assets.
• Lead technical design and configuration of MDM solutions, including data modeling, matching, survivorship, hierarchy management, and integration patterns across critical business domains.
• Analyze enterprise data quality issues through data profiling, root cause analysis, quality assessments, and measurement frameworks; define remediation strategies and business rules to improve data reliability and compliance.
• Architect and optimize enterprise Data Catalog and Metadata Management capabilities, including business glossary, lineage, classification, stewardship, and metadata enrichment processes.
• Identify and implement AI, machine learning, and intelligent automation capabilities to enhance data quality monitoring, anomaly detection, metadata enrichment, entity resolution, stewardship workflows, and governance operations.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to architecture and development teams, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, standards, and guidelines.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions that meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Design end-to-end IT solutions, including infrastructure, applications, data, and security components, to support business processes and workflows.
• Evaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and methodologies to enhance the organization's IT capabilities and drive innovation.
• Lead architectural reviews and provide guidance to development teams to ensure adherence to architectural principles, standards, and guidelines.
• Identify and mitigate architectural risks and issues through proactive planning and effective communication with stakeholders.
• Define and maintain documentation related to IT architecture, including diagrams, standards, policies, and procedures.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in IT architecture, and apply knowledge to drive continuous improvement.
• Measurably impact company performance by delivering high quality, scalable data products.
• And all other duties as needed or assigned.

Qualifications (Minimum Required):

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience in lieu of educational requirements.

Experience (Minimum Required):

• 10 years of experience in Enterprise, Business, Information, Systems and Application, Solution Architectures.
• Strong expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-scale IT solutions across multiple platforms and technologies.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise data architecture, Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Catalog, MDM, or related data management solutions.
• Must have experience implementing data solutions in Microsoft Azure
• In-depth knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and their services.
• Proficiency in system integration techniques, including API design, microservices architecture, and message queuing protocols.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively with stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications Include:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience in pharmaceutical R and D, clinical development and/or healthcare IT.