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The MDM System Architect is a senior technical leader on the MDM Solution Teams responsible for translating complex Master Data Management (MDM) epics into robust, scalable, and compliant system level designs across the MDM Product Platform—supporting VA Profile, VADIR/VIS, and HDR. Working within Agile Release Trains (ARTs), this role drives architecture decisions, build vs buy evaluations, prototyping, and backlog elaboration while orchestrating dependencies across Architecture, Development Scrum, Data Hydration, Shared Service DevOps & Quality, Release & Compliance, Customer Success, and Decision Support Reporting.

1) Epic Elaboration & Solution Design

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

+ Decompose large, complex MDM epics (e. . , 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.

2) Build vs. Buy Decisions

+ Lead evaluations of custom development versus third party products/tools, assessing total cost of ownership, risk, compliance (e. . , 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.

3) Solution Intent & Requirements Capture

+ 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.

4) Prototyping & Modeling

+ 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

5) Feature & Story Elaboration

+ 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.

6) CrossTeam Risk & Dependency Management

+ Identify, communicate, and mitigate cross team risks and dependencies (e. . , 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.

7) Agile Program Management

+ 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.

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. . , 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. . , NIST/FISMA).

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

Technical Skills

+ MDM Concepts: identity resolution, matching algorithms, survivorship rules, golden record creation, data stewardship workflows.

+ Data & Integration: canonical data modeling, API design, schema evolution, streaming/CDC, batch ETL/ELT, data quality scorecards.

+ Data Architecture: domain driven design, event driven architecture, microservices patterns, security/privacy by design, performance tuning.

+ Compliance & Security: HIPAA/PHI, PII handling, audit logging, encryption at rest/in transit, secrets management, role based access controls.

Competencies

+ Systems thinking and pragmatic decision making (build vs. buy).

+ Influence without authority across multiple teams and vendors.

+ Clear documentation (ADRs, sequence diagrams, solution intent, nonfunctional requirements).

+ Risk management and dependency orchestration within ART cadence.

+ Vetera _n_ focused mindset—design for reliability, accuracy, and trust.

+ Base Pay Range: ​$150,000 - $186,000

+ Other Compensation: Incentive Compensation

+ All Compensation is commensurate with employee qualifications, experience, and other factors including geographic location, market and operational factors.

+ 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)

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