MDM Information Architect

Digital Realty Trust • Ashburn, VA

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About The Position

Digital Realty is seeking an Information Architect to design, standardize, and govern how data is structured, integrated, and leveraged across the enterprise. This role is pivotal in shaping the enterprise canonical data model, ensuring consistency across systems, business domains, and analytics platforms. The Information Architect will collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to define data domains, taxonomies, metadata, and integration standards, ensuring data is trusted, accessible, and reusable for operations, analytics, and regulatory compliance. The role will also partner closely with the MDM Program Leader to ensure alignment between information architecture principles and Profisee-driven master data management (MDM) capabilities. This position requires both strategic vision and hands-on design expertise, balancing long-term architecture principles with practical implementation guidance.

Requirements

• 10+ years in enterprise data management, data architecture, or information architecture.
• Proven experience defining and managing canonical data models across multiple business domains.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling techniques (conceptual, logical, and physical).
• Hands-on experience with Profisee MDM or equivalent enterprise MDM tools.
• Familiarity with metadata and governance platforms (Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica, etc.).
• Deep understanding of data integration approaches (ETL/ELT, APIs, streaming, event-driven).
• Ability to bridge business and technology perspectives, ensuring models align with enterprise processes and strategies.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with experience driving consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.

Nice To Haves

• Industry experience in colocation, data centers, or real estate.
• Knowledge of cloud-native data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and modern architectures (data mesh, fabric, lakehouse).
• Experience with BI/analytics platforms (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) and how they consume structured enterprise data models.
• Awareness of compliance and regulatory data requirements.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and evolve the enterprise canonical data model, ensuring standardization across systems and domains (e.g., customer, contracts, inventory, financials).
• Collaborate with the MDM Program Leader to design Profisee MDM data models, hierarchies, and stewardship workflows that align with enterprise standards.
• Partner with enterprise architects and solution teams to embed information architecture principles in system implementations, integrations, and analytics platforms.
• Develop and enforce metadata, glossary, and data lineage standards using enterprise cataloging/governance tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview).
• Establish reusable data design patterns for interoperability across applications, APIs, streaming platforms, and data warehouses/lakes.
• Work with business stakeholders to capture requirements and translate them into standardized, reusable models that support operational and analytical use cases.
• Conduct architecture reviews of projects and initiatives to ensure compliance with canonical data model and information architecture standards.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to data modelers, data stewards, and engineers.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Excellent benefits
• Development opportunities for career growth
• Supportive and inclusive work environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Real Estate
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees