Position Title: MDM Information Architect Location: Ashburn, VA Your roleDigital 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.  What you’ll <ul><li>Define, maintain, and evolve the enterprise canonical data model, ensuring standardization across systems and domains (e.g., customer, contracts, inventory, financials).</li><li>Collaborate with the MDM Program Leader to design Profisee MDM data models, hierarchies, and stewardship workflows that align with enterprise standards.</li><li>Partner with enterprise architects and solution teams to embed information architecture principles in system implementations, integrations, and analytics platforms.</li><li>Develop and enforce metadata, glossary, and data lineage standards using enterprise cataloging/governance tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview).</li><li>Establish reusable data design patterns for interoperability across applications, APIs, streaming platforms, and data warehouses/lakes.</li><li>Work with business stakeholders to capture requirements and translate them into standardized, reusable models that support operational and analytical use cases.</li><li>Conduct architecture reviews of projects and initiatives to ensure compliance with canonical data model and information architecture standards.</li><li>Provide guidance and mentorship to data modelers, data stewards, and engineers.</li></ul>  What you’ll need <ul><li>10+ years in enterprise data management, data architecture, or information architecture.</li><li>Proven experience defining and managing canonical data models across multiple business domains.</li><li>Strong knowledge of data modeling techniques (conceptual, logical, and physical).</li><li>Hands-on experience with Profisee MDM or equivalent enterprise MDM tools.</li><li>Familiarity with metadata and governance platforms (Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica, etc.).</li><li>Deep understanding of data integration approaches (ETL/ELT, APIs, streaming, event-driven).</li><li>Ability to bridge business and technology perspectives, ensuring models align with enterprise processes and strategies.</li><li>Strong facilitation and communication skills, with experience driving consensus across diverse stakeholder groups.</li></ul>Preferred Skills<ul><li>Industry experience in colocation, data centers, or real estate.</li><li>Knowledge of cloud-native data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and modern architectures (data mesh, fabric, lakehouse).</li><li>Experience with BI/analytics platforms (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) and how they consume structured enterprise data models.</li><li>Awareness of compliance and regulatory data requirements.</li></ul>Education<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required.</li><li>Master’s degree preferred.</li></ul>  A bit about usDigital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit <a href="http://www.digitalrealty.com">digitalrealty.com</a> or follow us on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitalrealty">LinkedIn</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/digitalrealty">Twitter</a>. A bit about our team Our IT team is at the heart of our business. We develop infrastructures, design and build networks, support servers and provide the first line of support by delivering rich connectivity for our customers. With new data centers coming online all the time, it’s a rapidly changing technical environment so our team is always ready to innovate and take the lead on projects. We constantly develop, deploy and support vital networks and data services that drive business performance and improve life for customers around the globe. What we can offer youOur rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.  Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.  Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us. Health and SafetySafety isnt just a priority here at Digital; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data arent just ideals - theyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.  Our Compensation PhilosophyDigital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values.   Position Title: MDM Information Architect Location: Ashburn, VA