How many people can answer the question, "What do you do for a living?" with the answer, "I help find cures for cancer." At Blood Cancer United, employees take our mission seriously. Whether you work in one of our regions, are an accountant at the national office or a specialist in our Information Resource Center, you work each day on making our bold goal a reality: to enable patients with blood cancer to gain more than one million years of life by 2040. Join us and give new meaning to the word, "job."
Summary: The Senior Technical Lead, Master Data Management is a hands-on practitioner responsible for the functional configuration, execution, and daily operation of Blood Cancer United’s master data program. Reporting to the Director, Data Governance, this role owns the end-to-end lifecycle of Blood Cancer United’s critical data domains—including member organizations, contacts, patient populations, programs, and partners—ensuring that a single, trusted version of each record is available across all systems.
This is a practitioner role. The Senior Technical Lead will get into the data: building matching rules, resolving duplicates, defining MDM reference-data requirements and rules, and partnering directly with system owners and data stewards to make master data reliable, consistent, and actionable. The ideal candidate brings deep MDM expertise—including hands-on experience with enterprise MDM platforms and a comfort operating in a lean nonprofit environment.
Key Responsibilities: Master Data Domain Management
Own the master data lifecycle for Blood Cancer United’s core domains: constituents (i.e. patients and donors), member organizations, employees, programs, and partner entities
Define and maintain golden record standards, including field-level merge and survivorship rules that determine which source system wins when data conflicts arise
Define, configure, test, and monitor entity-matching rules to accurately identify, link, and consolidate duplicate or related records across CRM, and other operational systems
Define and maintain master-data registry requirements and content; partner with Architecture and Engineering on the technical solution and implementation.
Serve as the MDM subject-matter expert who recommends match/merge and survivorship rules and document decisions; the Director, Data Governance owns business governance, decision rights, and senior-leadership approvals.
Data Quality and Remediation
Define requirements and execute recurring MDM data-quality assessments across master data domains, measuring accuracy, completeness, uniqueness, consistency, and timeliness
Assist in deduplication and data cleansing initiatives, including bulk remediation projects and ongoing exception management workflows
Define MDM data-quality rules and acceptance criteria; configure checks within the MDM platform where appropriate and partner with Data Engineering for custom automation using SQL, Python, Power Query, or enterprise tooling.
Triage, prioritize, and resolve master data issues escalated by data stewards, system users, or downstream reporting consumers
Track and report on data quality metrics, trends, and remediation progress to the Director, Data Governance
System Integration and Data Consistency
Partner with Systems Development Engineering team to ensure master data is correctly propagated across integrated platforms, including CRM, marketing tools, and analytics environments
Identify and document points of data fragmentation or inconsistency across systems and lead resolution efforts
Define MDM mapping requirements and validate cross-system mappings, ensuring that the same entity is consistently identified and represented regardless of source
Support data migration and system implementation projects by supplying validated, cleansed, and standardized master data
Define and configure MDM standardization rules for names, addresses, organization types, and other structured fields to improve matching and reporting…