MDM and Data Quality Engineer

Sinclair, Inc. is seeking a Data Quality and Master Data Management Engineer to join our Enterprise Data and Insights Team (ED&I). This role is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Quality (DQ) solutions that ensure data accuracy, consistency, and governance across Sinclair's enterprise systems.

This role takes ownership of the custom-built Data Quality Foundation-leveraging Snowflake, Cognos Analytics, SSRS, and ED&I engineering patterns-to expand and mature the enterprise's ability to measure, monitor, remediate, and improve data quality at scale.

The engineer will design, implement, and optimize data quality rules, issue detection logic, exception reporting, and the underlying data pipelines that feed our enterprise Data Quality Dashboard. They will partner closely with the Enterprise Data Governance (EDG) Office, acting as the technical execution arm that turns governance policies, standards, and domain-specific rules into automated data quality controls embedded into Sinclair's modern data ecosystem.

This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong data modeling, SQL development, metadata understanding, and business domain translation skill-ideal for someone who enjoys building robust data assets that directly improve trust, decision-making, and operational efficiency across the enterprise.

• Own, maintain, and expand the ED&I-built Data Quality Foundation, including Snowflake objects, SQL logic, metadata layers, and reporting structures.
• Translate data governance policies, quality standards, and field-level requirements into technical data quality rules (completeness, uniqueness, conformity, referential integrity, validity, timeliness, etc.).
• Build, maintain, and support scalable pipelines that detect, measure, and store data quality results across multiple domains (starting with Oracle B2B Customer, expanding to Vendor, Employee, Product, and more).
• Implement automated frameworks that surface issues in real-time or near real-time.

• Analyze and map source system attributes (Oracle Fusion, CDM, legacy systems, CRM, ERP, broadcast systems, etc.) to the Golden Record structure managed by ED&I/EDG.
• Create and manage transformation logic to standardize, harmonize, and prepare data for MDM use cases.
• Collaborate with business stewards and EDG domain leaders to refine golden record attributes, survivorship rules, and lineage.

• Maintain and enhance the Data Quality Dashboard delivered through Cognos Analytics and SSRS-including schema changes, measure expansion, usability improvements, and new rule integrations.
• Ensure dashboards reflect clear, executive-ready views of data quality trends, issue volume, domain health, and field-level KPIs.
• Manage end-to-end exception reporting, including daily/weekly files sent to operational teams for triage and remediation.

• Partner with the Enterprise Data Governance Office to understand domain priorities, evolving standards, and new data policies.
• Translate governance requirements into actionable technical specifications and automated controls.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to Data Stewards, Data Owners, and Data Council representatives.
• Participate in stewardship working groups and provide technical insight on data quality feasibility, root cause analysis, and upstream/downstream impacts.

• Monitor performance of Snowflake workloads, optimize SQL logic, and ensure cost-effective data quality processing.
• Maintain documentation of rules, mappings, logic, lineage, and dashboard changes.
• Identify opportunities to embed preventative data quality controls upstream (application, integration, API, or ETL level).
• Support ED&I engineering teams in pipeline improvements, schema changes, and data onboarding initiatives.

• 5 or more years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Quality, or Master Data Management roles.
• Strong hands-on experience implementing and managing MDM and DQ frameworks (commercial or open source).
• Advanced proficiency with Snowflake, including schema design, SQL optimization, and ELT orchestration.
• Strong programming skills in SQL and Python for data validation, profiling, and automation.
• Experience building reporting or dashboard layers (Cognos Analytics, SSRS, Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
• Familiarity with MDM concepts such as golden record design, survivorship, match/merge logic, and hierarchy management.
• Understanding of data quality dimensions, measurement techniques, score carding, and exception management.
• Experience with metadata-driven design, rule frameworks, and repeatable automation patterns.
• Deep understanding of data governance principles, including metadata, reference data, and stewardship processes.
• Proven experience integrating data management solutions with ERP, CRM, and analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-based approaches to improve data quality and anomaly detection.
• Experience with AWS or Azure data services and modern CI/CD practices for data pipeline deployment.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to operate effectively in complex data ecosystems.