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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Master Data Manager

Data ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMeudon, FranceNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • Confirmed experience in Master Data Management.
  • Proficiency in defining and implementing data repositories end to end.
  • Project management experience and ability to oversee multiple initiatives and stakeholders.
  • Very good written and spoken English.
  • Ability to move between concrete technical work, such as scripts and tables, and abstract work involving models, concepts, and ontologies.
  • Experience using a market MDM tool.
  • Ability to work in an international, multicultural environment with business, business analyst, IT, architecture, and data stakeholders.
  • Structured approach and ability to work at both strategic and detailed levels, including tables, rules, and mappings.
  • Results orientation and ability to identify concrete, scalable, reusable solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and qualify MDM use cases across one to three data domains.
  • Define target data lifecycles, including creation, modification, validation, enrichment, merging, archiving, and deletion.
  • Support the definition of data models, attributes, relationships, and levels of granularity.
  • Define data quality and MDM rules for standardization, validation, deduplication, matching and merging, mapping, and synchronization.
  • Support implementation of rules in the MDM solution.
  • Organize business acceptance testing and validation of MDM rules and processes.
  • Use lessons learned to industrialize the methodology for other data domains.
  • Support the MDM lead in managing Group Data Office MDM activities.
  • Manage the MDM initiative portfolio and track milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
  • Coordinate MDM work across entities, functions, architects, and IS IT.
  • Establish and track performance KPIs for MDM activities.
  • Identify synergies across data domains.
  • Ensure MDM initiatives align with Group Data standards and principles, including ownership.
  • Capture and share MDM best practices across the Group.
  • Contribute to defining and evolving the Group MDM strategy.
  • Contribute to defining and maintaining the Group MDM roadmap in line with business and data priorities.
  • Identify dependencies with ongoing data initiatives, including Data Governance, Data Quality, and Data Platform.
  • Prepare and facilitate Group MDM committees.
  • Support facilitation of committees for individual data domains.
  • Organize sessions to share best practices and lessons learned.
  • Encourage adoption of MDM practices across entities.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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