Data Architect - MDM/CDMP/CIMP

Please send your updated resume to vinoth.xyant@gmail. comJob Title: Data Architect - MDM/CDMP/CIMPLocation: Tampa, FL (Remote)Duration: Full time / Longterm ContractDirect Client Need.Position Summary: Advancing data analytics and master data management (MDM) capabilities are at the core of our strategic vision to augment business decision-making by drawing meaningful insights from its data assets. We are implementing an ERP roadmap to modernize and consolidate to support vital business operations to understand the company’s performance, and opportunities. Our further plan is to strengthen data architecture, analytics, and MDM practices to harness the full value of its data assets. This pivotal role is crucial to ensuring data quality accuracy, security, and compliance of data. This role will be responsible for cultivating a culture of data stewardship and ownership across the enterprise, which will involve working with the stakeholders to gather requirements, and design and implement standardized data governance policies and procedures aimed at supporting data management and compliance initiatives.Principle Activities:Data GovernanceCollaborate with cross-functional teams such as data engineers, architects, technology leads, business analysts, and other cross-functional stakeholders to establish data quality standards, policies, procedures, data ownership, access control, and data definitions.Establish trust and relationships with stakeholders while defining data governance requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals.Develop and maintain a centralized metadata catalog, and dictionary to document data assets, schemas, and lineage of data being managed by our organization and third-party applications.Define data access policies and classify assets based on sensitivity, confidentiality, and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance with privacy regulations such as ITAR, CCPA, and GDPR.Implement data security, encryption, and access controls to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access or disclosure.Coordinate with legal and compliance teams on the proper classification of Data and its retention periodsEnsure compliance with relevant data protection regulations and industry standards.Coordinate with the compliance team to ensure that the data in 3rd party applications is being maintained within our policies.Lead effort to cleanse data and maintain accuracy by implementing quality control guidelines and reconciliation process.Data Architecture and StrategyWork closely with business and IT teams to participate in the development of an overall Data analytics and AI strategy aligned with the business goals.Lead data architecture, data integration design, and data migration projects.Lead strategy to consolidate customer, product, inventory, and transactional data from different data on-prem and cloud data sources.Architect roadmap expansion of MDM, data analytics landscape.Data Quality ManagementDevelop and implement data quality metrics, monitoring, quality assessments, and audit processes.Create reports and reconciliation processes on data quality and work with the business to improve data quality iteratively.Proactively identify data quality issues and work with relevant teams to resolve them.Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that business intelligence is performed through consistent data sources and calculations.Data Lifecycle ManagementCoordinate with Architects and Development teams to assist with managing data lifecycle processes, including data creation, maintenance, archival, and deletion.Ensure data is appropriately classified and protected based on its sensitivity and value.Coordinate closely with QA teams for non-production data refreshes and strategiesWork on eliminating duplicate data in the current state and prevent the elimination of unneeded duplication of data in the future.