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Project Manager Business Analyst - Data & Reporting, Master Data Management

Immediate need for a talented Project Manager Business Analyst - Data & Reporting, Master Data Management. This is a 12+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Austin TX / Cupertino, CA (Onsite).

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-End Project Management: Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of MDM initiatives.
• Develop project plans, manage sprint schedules, track milestones, and proactively identify and mitigate project risks.
• Impact Assessment & Gap Analysis: Analyze current-state data against future-state MDM needs, identify deltas, assessing business impact severity, and proposing mitigation strategies to keep the project on track.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Facilitate harmonization discussions with global business teams and support governance forums to align on key MDM attributes.
• Provide regular status updates, executive summaries, and risk assessments to leadership and steering committees.
• Data Profiling & Availability Analysis: Partner with SMEs and business stakeholders to understand current data structures, availability, and gaps, translating these findings into actionable project requirements.
• Integration & Transformation Design: Define, document, and manage the requirements for data integration, migration, transformation, and current-to-future state mapping.
• Data Quality Evaluation: Assess and document the quality of key MDM attributes, define data quality rules, and collaborate with data quality analysts and business partners to drive improvements.
• Testing, Validation & UAT: Manage and actively participate in the validation of new or transformed data sets.
• Oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure data integrity and alignment with business requirements before deployment.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Must have skills: Project management, Business Data reporting, MDM & Data Governance.
• Project Management Expertise: Proven track record of managing complex data, MDM, or governance projects.
• Strong proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project). Master Data & Governance: Deep understanding of master data management principles, data governance frameworks, and large-scale data quality improvement initiatives.
• Impact & Business Analysis Skills: Proven ability to capture/document requirements, assess business impacts and tradeoffs, and align stakeholders through interviews, workshops, and requirements harmonization.
• Hands-on experience with data profiling, source system analysis, and KPI definition.
• Strong SQL & Python expertise and experience querying large, complex data sets.
• Familiarity with at least one analytics platform (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Snowflake).
• Experience with BI tools such as Tableau, ThoughtSpot, or Business Objects.
• Data Architecture & Quality: Understanding of data architecture principles, data lineage, and experience maintaining data dictionaries/definitions.
• Tools & Platforms: Exposure to tools such as Collibra, Data Hub (or equivalent for governance and data quality) alongside standard PM software.
• Collaboration & Communication: Ability to navigate a matrixed organization, work across time zones, drive consensus among competing priorities, and build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Execution & Accountability: Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of delivering results on time and within budget in large, complex programs.
• 5+ years of combined experience in project management and data analysis, specifically focused on data-related initiatives, MDM, or data governance.
• Project Management certifications (e.g., PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP) are highly preferred.
• Industry-standard certifications in data management or analytics preferred.
• Deep familiarity with D&B data architecture, hierarchies, and enrichment preferred.