What are the responsibilities and job description for the Master Data Management (MDM) Architect position at Koch?
Your Job
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a Master Data Management (MDM) Architect to join our global Information Technology (IT) capability in Wichita, KS.
In this role, you will partner with KES IT and business teams to design, implement, and scale enterprise MDM capabilities across key KES data domains. You will work closely with Data Architects, Data Leads, Data Analysts, and Data Owners to establish appropriate guardrails and frameworks as we mature our single source of truth (SSOT) data governance across business domains.
We are looking for someone who is proactive, contribution-motivated, and passionate about building scalable data foundations, reusable patterns, and enterprise standards.
This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.
Our Team
The IT capability is a vital component of the KES strategy to improve business performance through the application of technology and to profitably transform our business. Our team operates with a startup mentality—working as an integrated group with the Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Finance teams to design, build, and scale innovative solutions that transform KES work processes.
What You Will Do
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a Master Data Management (MDM) Architect to join our global Information Technology (IT) capability in Wichita, KS.
In this role, you will partner with KES IT and business teams to design, implement, and scale enterprise MDM capabilities across key KES data domains. You will work closely with Data Architects, Data Leads, Data Analysts, and Data Owners to establish appropriate guardrails and frameworks as we mature our single source of truth (SSOT) data governance across business domains.
We are looking for someone who is proactive, contribution-motivated, and passionate about building scalable data foundations, reusable patterns, and enterprise standards.
This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.
Our Team
The IT capability is a vital component of the KES strategy to improve business performance through the application of technology and to profitably transform our business. Our team operates with a startup mentality—working as an integrated group with the Engineering, Operations, Commercial, and Finance teams to design, build, and scale innovative solutions that transform KES work processes.
What You Will Do
- Design, build, and establish policies, standards, and procedures governing master data across business functions in defined data domains.
- Work collaboratively with enterprise MDM teams to facilitate data harmonization efforts across divisions
- Define and monitor key data quality KPIs and performance metrics.
- Define business logic, implement survivorship criteria, and develop match & merge rules to define clean, accurate golden records.
- Develop integration patterns from MDM platform into upstream and downstream systems
- Work closely with the enterprise data platform team (Snowflake) and analytics team
- Lead root cause analysis and remediation of recurring data issues.
- Implement preventative controls to improve data accuracy and consistency.
- Develop reporting and dashboards measuring data quality performance
- Mature the KES data foundation by identifying gaps in data coverage, quality, lineage, and structure, then prioritizing improvements through an iterative, product-minded approach.
- Experience communicating data architecture and technology concepts in both execution detail and broad terms to a variety of technical and business audiences.
- Demonstrated capability partnering with customers to understand business and operating models, then translating them into coherent MDM requirements.
- Demonstrated experience with MDM platforms at enterprise scale.
- 5 years’ experience in Master Data Management (MDM) concepts and practices.
- Experience in SAP MDM, Informatica, Reltio, or Stibo market platforms
- Ability to design and implement scalable MDM processes, with attention to ownership, stewardship, and control
- Support AI-ready data architecture by designing well-governed, well-documented data layers that enable model training, feature engineering, semantic understanding, and AI-assisted insights.
- Strong analytical and stakeholder engagement skills, with ability to navigate complex requirements across business and technical teams.
- Experience with event driven architecture
- Technical experience with serverless cloud technology tools and services (AWS: S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, etc.)
- Exposure to data quality and observability practices
- Experience working in global engineering or manufacturing environments
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).