MDM Product Owner

Robert Half is hiring a senior product leader to drive enterprise Master Data Management initiatives from Houston, supporting improvements in data quality, governance, stewardship, usability, and system integration. This hybrid role focuses on shaping an MDM roadmap and coordinating delivery across business stakeholders, engineering, quality engineering, governance teams, and downstream system owners.

You will own the product backlog and roadmap strategy, translate business needs into clear user stories with acceptance criteria, and help ensure MDM capabilities scale in a way that enables trusted, business-ready data across the organization.

Role summary

• Lead enterprise Master Data Management product ownership to improve data quality, governance, stewardship, usability, and integration.
• Partner with business and cross-functional teams to define priorities and deliver scalable MDM capabilities.
• Support trusted, business-ready data by aligning requirements, delivery, and governance workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the MDM product roadmap, backlog, and delivery strategy with business stakeholders.
• Gather and translate business requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and actionable product deliverables.
• Lead Agile execution including backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, release reviews, and prioritization sessions.
• Facilitate alignment across business teams, engineering, quality engineering, governance teams, and downstream system owners.
• Define and support data standards, business rules, validation requirements, stewardship workflows, and data quality initiatives.
• Analyze and profile data to detect quality issues, inconsistencies, root causes, and opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with technical teams to design, validate, and enhance MDM platform capabilities and workflows.
• Define integration requirements between MDM and enterprise systems, including mappings, validation logic, transformation requirements, and error-handling processes.
• Support troubleshooting related to integration issues such as synchronization failures, data mismatches, and validation exceptions.
• Communicate product decisions, release impacts, risks, and priorities to both technical and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Product Ownership, Master Data Management, Data Management, Business Analysis, Data Governance, or Enterprise Systems delivery.
• Experience managing product backlogs, writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and delivering solutions in Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of Master Data Management concepts such as data domains, hierarchies, governance, stewardship workflows, and data quality.
• Experience making product decisions and aligning cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and written communication with both technical and business audiences.
• Working knowledge of SQL and data analysis for profiling, validation, troubleshooting, and clarifying requirements.
• Understanding of enterprise integration patterns including APIs, batch interfaces, and file-based integrations.
• Experience defining integration requirements, mappings, validation rules, error handling processes, and interface documentation.

Technologies

• SQL
• APIs
• Batch interfaces
• File-based integrations
• Stibo STEP MDM
• Snowflake
• dbt
• MuleSoft
• AWS Glue
• S3
• SFTP
• Axway
• Jira

Location, duration, and pay

• Location: Houston, TX (hybrid); 4 days/week onsite
• Pay: USD 60 - 65 per hour
• Duration: Through 2/26/27, extensions likely

Benefits

• Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance.
• Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in the company 401(k) plan.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Stibo STEP MDM.
• Exposure to Snowflake, dbt, MuleSoft, AWS Glue, S3, SFTP, Axway, or similar cloud and integration platforms.
• Experience with data governance tools.
• Experience with Jira, quality engineering coordination, user acceptance testing, and release management.