MDM Product Owner
Talascend is currently seeking a MDM Product Owner for a contract opportunity with our client in Houston, Texas.
Overview
The MDM Product Owner is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering master data management capabilities that support trusted, governed, and business-ready master data across the enterprise. This role manages the MDM roadmap, user experience, workflow design, business rules, and integration requirements.
Responsibilities
- Own the MDM product vision, roadmap, backlog, and prioritization in partnership with business stakeholders.
- Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product decisions.
- Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, release reviews, and prioritization discussions.
- Serve as the primary liaison between business teams, MDM, QE, engineering, and downstream system owners.
- Facilitate requirement-gathering, design discussions, issue triage, and prioritization sessions.
- Communicate product decisions, release impacts, open questions, and risks to both technical and business audiences.
- Define data standards, validation rules, business rules, stewardship workflows, and product requirements.
- Partner with business and governance teams to resolve data ownership, definition, and rule gaps.
- Analyze and profile data to identify quality issues, inconsistencies, root causes, and product improvement opportunities.
- Partner with MDM developers and data engineers to design, validate, refine, and support platform behavior.
- Define integration requirements between MDM and upstream/downstream enterprise systems.
- Partner with engineering teams on source-to-target mappings, data contracts, validation logic, transformation expectations, and error handling.
- Support triage of integration errors, data mismatches, validation failures, and downstream synchronization issues.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, data management, computer science, engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience across product ownership, MDM, data management, business analysis, governance, or enterprise systems delivery.
- Experience managing product backlogs, writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and delivering in agile environments.
- Strong understanding of MDM concepts, including data domains, hierarchies, governance, stewardship, workflows, and data quality.
- Demonstrated ability to make product decisions and align cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of SQL and dataset analysis for profiling, validation, troubleshooting, and requirements clarification.
- Understanding of enterprise integration patterns, including api, batch, and file-based integrations.
- Ability to define and interpret integration requirements, mappings, validation rules, error scenarios, downstream impacts, and interface documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Stibo MDM (STEP) experience.
- Exposure to snowflake, dbt, mulesoft, sftp/axway, aws glue, s3, or other cloud/integration platforms.
- Experience with data governance tools such as atlan.
- Experience with jira, agile delivery, qe coordination, uat sign-off, and release management.
The shift for this role is standard business hours during weekdays in a hybrid work environment, with in-office and work-from-home days.
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.