MDM Product Owner

Raise is building Master Data Management capabilities to help the enterprise maintain trusted, governed, and business-ready master data. In this hybrid contract role based in Houston, TX, the MDM Product Owner defines the MDM product direction, shapes requirements into actionable delivery, and coordinates across business, governance, technology, QE, and downstream system owners.

The role centers on owning the MDM roadmap and backlog, guiding decisions from discovery through release, and ensuring integration requirements are clear for upstream and downstream systems. You will work closely with MDM developers and data engineering teams to support platform behavior, validation logic, and error handling, while also partnering with governance to close gaps in definitions and rules.

What you’ll do

• Own the MDM product vision, roadmap, backlog, and prioritization in partnership with business stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product decisions.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, demos, release reviews, and prioritization discussions.
• Act as the primary liaison between business teams, MDM, QE, engineering, and downstream system owners.
• Facilitate requirement gathering, design discussions, issue triage, and prioritization sessions.
• Communicate product decisions, release impacts, open questions, and risks to technical and business audiences.
• Define data standards, validation rules, business rules, stewardship workflows, and Stibo MDM product requirements.
• Partner with business and governance teams to resolve gaps in data ownership, definitions, and rules.
• Analyze and profile data to identify quality issues, inconsistencies, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with MDM developers and data engineers to design, validate, refine, and support platform behavior.
• Define integration requirements between MDM and upstream/downstream enterprise systems.
• Work with engineering teams on source-to-target mappings, data contracts, validation logic, transformation expectations, and error handling.
• Support triage of integration errors, data mismatches, validation failures, and downstream synchronization issues.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience across product ownership, MDM, data management, business analysis, governance, or enterprise systems delivery.
• Experience managing product backlogs, writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and delivering in Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of MDM concepts, including data domains, hierarchies, governance, stewardship, workflows, and data quality.
• Demonstrated ability to make product decisions and align cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of SQL and dataset analysis for profiling, validation, troubleshooting, and requirements clarification.
• Understanding of enterprise integration patterns, including API, batch, and file-based integrations.
• Ability to define and interpret integration requirements, mappings, validation rules, error scenarios, downstream impacts, and interface documentation.

Technologies

• Stibo MDM (STEP)
• SQL
• Snowflake
• dbt
• MuleSoft
• SFTP
• Axway
• AWS Glue
• S3
• Atlan
• Jira

Preferred / nice-to-have skills

• Stibo MDM (STEP) experience.
• Exposure to Snowflake, dbt, MuleSoft, SFTP/Axway, AWS Glue, S3, or other cloud/integration platforms.
• Experience with data governance tools such as Atlan.
• Experience with Jira, Agile delivery, QE coordination, UAT sign-off, and release management.

Success outcomes

• Improved usability, adoption, and operational efficiency of MDM workflows.
• Improved data quality, completeness, consistency, and trust.
• Clear, actionable backlog aligned to business priorities.
• Reduced recurring integration issues, data mismatches, and downstream synchronization problems.

Compensation and benefits

Contract role with a listed hourly rate of USD 89 - 89. Benefits include dental insurance, health insurance, and vision insurance.