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RGP · 3 weeks ago

MDM, System Architect

Glen Allen, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$150K/yr - $186K/yr

8+ years exp

RGP is a company focused on creating a future where businesses can produce their best work without constraints. The MDM System Architect will lead the design and implementation of scalable Master Data Management solutions while collaborating with various teams to ensure compliance and performance in data management.

Commercial

Work & Life Balance

Hiring Manager

Shaun Landers

Responsibilities

Deliver current state assessments, identify gaps and develop implementation roadmaps for the МDM system

Decompose large, complex MDM epics (e.g., integrating VA Profile identity data with HDR health data) into alternative solution approaches; define systemlevel architectures emphasizing scalability, performance, reliability, and compliance

Align designs with MDM data models, survivorship/matching rules, and domainspecific requirements in partnership with the Architecture Team and Product SME

Author architecture decision records (ADRs), interface contracts, sequence diagrams, and context maps for platform wide reuse

Lead evaluations of custom development versus third party products/tools, assessing total cost of ownership, risk, compliance (e.g., PHI/PII, HIPAA), VA policy alignment, interoperability with VA systems, and operational fit

Present recommendations and tradeoffs to the Program Team and Release & Compliance Team; define pilot/proof criteria and success measures

Create and maintain Solution Intent documentation, capturing the business, technical, data, and nonfunctional requirements with input from Technical Analysts, Customer Success, and Strategy & Communications

Ensure Veteran focused outcomes are reflected in acceptance criteria, error handling, data quality thresholds, and user experience considerations

Produce early user and technical prototypes, domain and data models, process/experience models, and integration stubs to validate feasibility and data flows

Collaborate with Development Scrum Teams and the Decision Support Reporting Team to test ingestion, matching/survivorship, golden record creation, lineage, and analytics

Develop data models to meet business requirements and SLAs

Break down epics into features and actionable user stories, maintaining a prioritized, groomed backlog with clear DoD/DoR, nonfunctional requirements, and testability

Partner with the Scrum Master, Tech Lead, Developers, and Testers to ensure clarity, technical feasibility, and end to end traceability

Identify, communicate, and mitigate cross team risks and dependencies (e.g., Data Hydration for data availability; Shared Service DevOps & Quality for CI/CD, environments, and test frameworks)

Coordinate with the Release Train Engineer (RTE) on release planning, readiness, and crossART alignment

Operate within SAFe/ART ceremonies (PI Planning, System Demos, Inspect & Adapt), ensuring architecture runway, increment objectives, and roadmap alignment with the Product Manager and RTE

Monitor delivery health (velocity, quality, compliance gates) and drive continuous improvement

Qualification

MDM platforms expertiseData modelingIntegration experienceSAFe/Agile deliveryCompliance knowledgeCloud architectureData quality frameworksArchitecture decision recordsAPI designStakeholder managementSystems thinkingRisk managementCommunication

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)

8+ years of software engineering or data platform experience, with 5+ years architecting enterprise MDM solutions (identity resolution, matching/survivorship, data stewardship, golden record)

Handson expertise with MDM platforms (e.g., Informatica MDM/MDG, Reltio, IBM InfoSphere MDM, or equivalent), data modeling, and data governance

Hands-in experience with the design, development and implementation of data schemas for the large applications

Strong integration experience: REST/GraphQL APIs, event streaming (Kafka), ETL/ELT, messaging, and microservices on Docker/Kubernetes

Proven SAFe/Agile delivery within ARTs, including PI Planning and cross team dependency management

Security & compliance knowledge applicable to VA: protection of PII/PHI, HIPAA considerations for HDR, and alignment with federal controls (e.g., NIST/FISMA)

Tooling fluency: Jira, Confluence, Git/GitLab, CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), and observability (e.g., Splunk/Dynatrace)

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to author architecture artifacts and present tradeoff decisions

Preferred

Experience in VA domains (VA Profile, VADIR/VIS, HDR) or health/identity data standards (e.g., HL7/FHIR, X12)

Cloud architecture experience (Azure/AWS) with secure data services (encryption, KMS, IAM)

Prior work with data quality frameworks, master/metadata management, lineage, and stewardship workflows

Certifications: SAFe Architect (ARCH), SAFe Agilist, TOGAF, CISSP/CISM (or equivalent)

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) savings plan

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Professional development program

Flexible Time Off per year

8 Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Time (in geographies where legally required)

Company

RGP

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RGP (Nasdaq: RGP) is an award-winning global professional services firm with three decades of experience helping the world’s top organizations navigate change and seize opportunity.

Founded in 2004

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

1001-5000 employees