Product Master Data Management (MDM) Consulting Architect

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Product MDM Consulting Architect to assess product data landscapes and design target-state Product Master Data Management (MDM) architecture for a manufacturing client. The role focuses on product and item data, PLM/ERP integration, governance, and strategic roadmap development. Reltio experience is strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess product and item data across PLM, ERP, supply chain, and downstream systems.

• Design target-state product master architecture, data models, hierarchies, and classification.

• Define item lifecycle, BOM, engineering change, and product configuration models.

• Establish system-of-record boundaries between PLM, ERP, and MDM platforms.

• Design integration architecture and data syndication patterns.

• Define match, merge, trust, and survivorship strategies for product data.

• Develop data quality, governance, stewardship, and ownership frameworks.

• Lead stakeholder workshops and create architecture documents, data flow diagrams, and implementation roadmaps.

• Provide design assurance and architectural oversight to implementation teams.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Data Management, MDM Architecture, and Solution Design.

• Strong Product / Item Master Data experience.

• Manufacturing domain experience, preferably discrete manufacturing.

• Knowledge of PLM, ERP, Item Masters, BOM, Product Hierarchies, Classification, and Engineering Change.

• Experience with current-state assessments, target-state architecture, roadmaps, and workshops.

• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

• Ability to work independently in a client-facing advisory role.

Primary Skills

Product MDM, MDM Architecture, Product Master Data, Item Master, Manufacturing, Reltio, PLM, ERP, BOM, Product Classification, Data Governance, Match & Merge, Survivorship, Integration Architecture, Data Quality, Roadmap Development

One-Line Search Summary

Product MDM Architect Product Master Data Item Master Manufacturing Reltio PLM ERP BOM Product Classification Data Governance Match & Merge Survivorship Integration Architecture Data Quality