Cognizant is hiring an MDM Business Analyst to join our data management team. In this role, you will be essential for improving enterprise data quality, consistency, and usability by translating business needs into actionable MDM capabilities. You will partner closely with business SMEs, data stewards, and technical teams to drive analysis, governance, and implementation.
What You'll Do
- Gather, document, and prioritize MDM business requirements, including BRDs, functional specifications, and data loading needs.
- Conduct workshops with business stakeholders and SMEs to define MDM processes and modernization requirements.
- Perform data discovery and profiling to analyze data quality issues, root causes, and remediation approaches.
- Create SQL queries to extract, validate, and analyze data and identify anomalies.
- Define and validate matching rules, survivorship logic, and workflows for MDM hub ingestion.
- Participate in identifying and validating golden records while ensuring governance and stewardship alignment.
- Collaborate closely with MDM architects, integration teams, and developers to translate business needs into functional specifications.
- Support solution validation through UAT test case creation, data validation testing, and defect triage.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst in Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives.
- Strong ability to gather, analyze, and document complex business requirements for data management.
- Expertise in data discovery, profiling, and quality analysis to identify and remediate issues.
- Proficiency in writing SQL queries for data extraction, validation, and analysis.
- Experience defining and validating data matching rules, survivorship logic, and MDM workflows.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, data stewards, and technical teams.
- Experience supporting testing phases, including UAT test case creation and data validation.
Technical Stack
- SQL
