Master Data Manager

Company Description

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**Job Description**:
This is a newly created opportunity to join our Data Management team as a Master Data Manager. Reporting to the Senior Manager - Data Strategy and Modelling, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing master and reference data management solutions. This enterprise level role will be a critical part in ensuring data is properly integrated across systems, reducing data duplication across TAL's data assets.

This is a permanent role, working flexibly from our Sydney office.

In this role you will:

- Identify the requirements for master and reference data across the business
- Design conceptual data models for master and reference data, that capture information consistently and accurately
- Design business processes to ensure usability, sustainability, and currency of data
- Design workflows to report data quality exceptions on master data
- Define data stewardship, custodianship and operating models for development and maintenance of data
- Articulate technology platform requirements in terms of capabilities such as versioning, security and access controls, subscriptions, integration, and bulk update features
- Perform UAT and review/approve technical solutions built by the data engineers
- Ensure holistic change planning for downstream consumers of master and reference data is developed and implemented, including communications and training
- Identify/recommend processes that require integration of core admin systems or development of new master and reference data assets
- Review and approve business requirements documents for data projects as they relate to master and reference data

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 5 years’ experience working in a Data Management role
- Prior experience with tools such as Microsoft MDS, Profisee, Oracle Ref and Informatica
- Experience with Data Projects or Data as a Product
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong presentation skills and confident presenting and conducting workshops with a variety of stakeholders
- Strong stakeholder management and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated experience in building enterprise reference and master data across different data domains
- Ability to integrate master and reference data with other data capabilities such as metadata (technical and business), data quality and data modelling
- Ability to write SQL code for profiling and analysis, reverse engineer current state and define target state

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.

As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.

Additional Information

To provide you with the best experience, we can accommodate you at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team at any time.

TAL is recognised by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice. We are proud to be a member of Diversity Council Australia and the Australian Network on Disability. For information on our reconciliation journey, take a look at our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.
We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.

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