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Sopra Steria

IT consulting, digital services, and transformation

Consultant Master Data Management - Semarchy Data Platform et xDM

Data ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCourbevoie, France

About the Job

Requirements

  • Hold a Bac+5 qualification from an engineering school, business school, university, or equivalent.
  • Have at least 5 years of experience on Data Management, MDM, master data, data quality, or data governance projects; Semarchy experience is ideal.
  • Have strong technical-functional knowledge and be able to connect business needs and processes, data, business rules, and technical constraints.
  • Have experience with Semarchy xDM; experience or training with Semarchy Data Platform is an advantage. Experience with another MDM or Data Management tool may also be valued, including Informatica MDM/IDMC, Tibco EBX, Stibo STEP, Talend MDM, Orchestra Networks, Reltio, or SAP MDG.
  • Have knowledge or exposure to several of the following: Master Data Management; master data and reference data management; data quality management; data governance; data stewardship; functional or logical data modeling; business and data quality rules; matching, merging, deduplication, and consolidation; golden records, master records, and survivorship; validation workflows and approval processes; data authoring, data correction, enrichment, and standardization; data mapping, flow analysis, source systems, and consuming systems; interfaces, REST APIs, SQL, ETL/ELT, and data integration; functional testing, regression testing, and anomaly qualification; business workshops, requirements formalization, and specification writing.
  • Knowledge of some or all of the Semarchy ecosystem, including Semarchy xDM, Semarchy Data Platform, Semarchy xDI, and Data Locations, is an advantage.
  • Be able to structure requirements, explain complex data topics, communicate with business and technical stakeholders, and ensure requirements are accurately translated into the solution.
  • Be comfortable with project environments, teamwork, transformation contexts, and close client interaction.
  • Be comfortable speaking publicly, facilitating workshops, presenting design choices, defending recommendations, and helping users adopt a solution.
  • Professional English at B2 level is desired.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate workshops with business teams, Data Owners, Data Stewards, the Data Office, IT departments, and IT teams.
  • Gather, analyze, and document requirements for reference data, master data, and business rules.
  • Identify the relevant data domains, including customer, product, supplier, third party, organization, asset, cross-functional reference, and regulatory data.
  • Understand related business processes for creating, modifying, validating, publishing, historizing, enriching, and consuming data.
  • Map data sources, consuming systems, inbound and outbound flows, and governance responsibilities.
  • Translate business needs into functional and technical-functional requirements for delivery teams.
  • Contribute to defining Semarchy data models, including entities, attributes, relationships, hierarchies, value domains, and reference data, using Semarchy Data Platform’s Design Experience or Semarchy xDM.
  • Help design business processes, data authoring, and user journeys.
  • Define business, validation, quality, enrichment, and consistency rules.
  • Help design data standardization, normalization, duplicate detection, matching, merging, and consolidation mechanisms.
  • Define survivorship rules to select the best value for a golden record based on data sources.
  • Contribute to defining data lifecycles for golden records, master records, and source records.
  • Help design validation, correction, approval, and data stewardship workflows.
  • Write detailed functional specifications, user stories, business rules, mapping matrices, data quality rules, and acceptance-test scenarios.
  • Contribute to configuring Semarchy xDM and Semarchy Data Platform in coordination with technical teams.
  • Configure or review data-entry screens, forms, user views, steppers, actions, filters, controls, and workflows.
  • Help define user roles, profiles, access rights, and stewardship responsibilities.
  • Contribute to implementing SemQL rules, enrichers, validations, match rules, and survivorship rules.
  • Support teams in exposing and consuming data through REST APIs, SQL, or integration flows using Semarchy data notifications.
  • Coordinate with integration teams on Semarchy Data Platform Data Integration/Semarchy xDI, ETL/ELT, APIs, data lakes, data warehouses, consuming applications, and source systems.
  • Develop interface contracts defining canonical formats for inter-application exchanges.
  • Build the functional and technical-functional testing strategy.
  • Write test plans, test cases, test datasets, and end-to-end scenarios.
  • Test data quality, matching, deduplication, consolidation, publication, and workflow rules.
  • Analyze discrepancies, defects, rejected records, duplicates, survivorship conflicts, and data inconsistencies.
  • Support business teams in data qualification, data-cleaning campaigns, and rule decisions.
  • Contribute to change management through user materials, quick-start guides, training, demonstrations, and Data Steward community facilitation.
  • Contribute to continuous solution improvement and clients’ Data Management maturity.
  • Understand requests for proposals or client requirements during scoping and presales phases.
  • Identify client needs related to MDM, data quality, reference data, and governance.
  • Propose a Semarchy implementation roadmap suited to the client context.
  • Contribute to functional and technical-functional proposals.
  • Help prepare demonstrations, use cases, and presentation materials.
  • Present and support proposals to business, Data, IT, or technical-functional audiences.
  • Challenge client requirements and guide clients toward Data Management best practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience or training with Semarchy Data Platform.
  • Experience with another MDM or Data Management tool, such as Informatica MDM/IDMC, Tibco EBX, Stibo STEP, Talend MDM, Orchestra Networks, Reltio, or SAP MDG.
  • Knowledge of the Semarchy ecosystem, including Semarchy xDM, Semarchy Data Platform, Semarchy xDI, and Data Locations.
  • Professional English at B2 level.

About the Company

Sopra Steria

IT consulting, digital services, and transformation

Sopra Steria provides consulting, digital services and solutions to help large organizations transform their business through technology. Its offerings cover strategy, systems integration, cloud, cyber security, software development, and managed services, designed to be delivered end to end—from assessing needs and designing a plan to implementing and operating IT systems. The company combines deep knowledge of many industries with a collaborative approach to tailor projects to each client and to deliver measurable, sustainable improvements in performance. Differentiators include its European scale (about 51,000 employees across roughly 30 countries), broad scope—from strategy to operation—and emphasis on practical outcomes that help clients stay competitive. The group’s goal is to put digital to work for its clients in a way that creates a positive, more productive future for all stakeholders.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1968

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