Perficient currently has a career opportunity for an Informatica MDM Architect in San Francisco, California or Plano, Texas. Other state candidates might be considered.



Responsibilities

 

• Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture. Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.


• Provide architectural assessments, strategies, and roadmaps for one or more technology domains.


• Lead projects within architecture. Work with Product Owner/Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and interact with other cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and release features.


• Project and solution estimation and team structure definition


• Develop Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new architectures and solutions.


• Support multiple Agile Scrum teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for the new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production.


• Liaise with offshore team and clients for resolving technical dependencies, issues, and risks.


• Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.


• Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams.


• Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions


• Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs


• Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Informatica MDM & IDQ


• Leadership and team management experience with ability to provide strategic planning and oversight.


• At least 5 project implementations that exploit the full capabilities (discover, design, implement and optimize) of ETL, data quality and/or MDM technologies – is a MUST.


• At least 5 years of experience in a professional services company, consulting firm, or agency


• Have a solid understanding of delivery methodology and lead teams in the implementation of the solution according to the design/architecture.


• Experience in project and solution estimation and team structure definition.


• Fluent and current on architecture trends with an eye on market/technical conditions and future direction.


• Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive an independent project from an architectural stand point.


• Experience leading customer workshop sessions to educate customers on the latest technology trends and best practices.


• Proven track record of leadership roles delivering solutions within defined timeframes.


• Demonstrated success in performing work and managing complex and/or large consulting projects.


• Proficient in authoring, editing and presenting technical documents.


• Ability to elicit requirements and communicate clearly with non-technical individuals, development teams, and other ancillary project members.


• Excellent written and oral communication skills; Ability to communicate effectively with technical AND business stakeholders.


• Experience working with a globally distributed team and managing off-shore teams.


• Desire to mentor younger team members and develop their skills.


• Understands the importance of team chemistry.


• Experience working on multiple concurrent projects.


• Experience leading internal initiatives.


• Excellent problem-solving skills.Be independent and self-driven.


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.


• Must be open to travel.

Preferred Skills and Education:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field


• Certification in Informatica Data Quality or MDM