Customer Data Management (CDM) Architect
Summary
Senior architect owning the enterprise customer master data (MDM) platform: defining architecture and roadmap, integration/API patterns, data quality and governance, and production reliability for customer data pipelines. Core stack is Oracle Fusion with Groovy, syncing to CRM, TMS, billing and finance systems; Salesforce and Azure exposure preferred.
Role & responsibilities
Master Data Architecture & Strategy
- Define and maintain the enterprise customer master data architecture, roadmap, and target-state design.
- Establish MDM principles, customer hierarchy models, attribute ownership, and golden-record definitions.
- Design scalable account structures that serve sales, operations, billing, credit, and finance simultaneously.
- Set enterprise data standards naming conventions, address standardization, validation frameworks, and
survivorship rules.
- Drive modernization of the customer data platform, its integration fabric, and Fusion customization strategy.
Solution & Integration Architecture
- Produce architecture blueprints, integration patterns, reference architectures, and technical design documents.
Customer Data Management (CDM) Architect
- Architect and govern the publication and synchronization of customer data to CRM, TMS, billing, and finance
systems.
- Define API standards, event/publish patterns, authentication, error handling, and retry and replay strategies.
- Lead architecture and design-review governance; approve high-impact changes to the customer domain.
- Translate business and line-of-business requirements into resilient, scalable solution designs.
Data Governance & Data Quality
- Own enterprise customer data quality completeness, accuracy, uniqueness, and timeliness.
- Establish duplicate prevention, matching and merge logic, and preventative validation at the point of entry.
- Lead standardization, enrichment, and cleansing programs across the customer domain.
- Define stewardship and correction workflows for account creation, enrichment, and movement across divisions.
Production Operations & Reliability (Managed Services)
- Set the operational support model, monitoring standards, and service-reliability targets for the CDM platform.
- Oversee production incident management, triage, and restoration for customer data and integration failures.
- Govern publish-queue monitoring diagnose and resolve failed account publications to downstream systems.
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and problem management to convert recurring issues into permanent fixes.
- Drive proactive health checks, capacity awareness, and end-to-end stability across the customer data pipelines.
Engineering & Development Leadership
- Provide technical leadership for user stories, production enhancements, and account-level improvements.
- Guide Oracle Fusion customization, integration logic, validation rules, and Groovy-based development.
- Review designs, code, and integration patterns; enforce engineering best practices and standards.
- Support new integrations and evolving line-of-business processes end to end.
- Mentor engineers and support analysts; lead knowledge sharing and technical enablement.
Reconciliation & Cross-System Consistency
- Define the reconciliation strategy across the customer master, CRM, and downstream operational systems.
- Establish reconciliation controls, exception handling, and reporting that protect billing and invoicing accuracy.
- Investigate and resolve cross-system discrepancies and coordinate corrective action across enterprise teams.
Governance, Security & Compliance
- Establish and enforce architecture standards, change governance, and operational controls.
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and customer-data-privacy requirements across the ecosystem.
- Chair or contribute to architecture review boards and enterprise data-governance forums.
Preferred candidate profile
- Enterprise Architecture certification (TOGAF or equivalent).
- Experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, freight, or another high-volume, billing-intensive industry.
- Working knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem as a downstream consumer of the customer master.
- Hands-on Oracle Groovy scripting for Fusion integration and customization logic.
- Cloud platform experience (Microsoft Azure preferred).