Senior Master Data Associate & AI Specialist

When you work for John Crane, you join a community driven by pioneering spirit and a legacy of innovation. Our engineered solutions drive reliability, uptime and energy efficiency, empowering the world’s largest energy service providers to achieve sustainability goals that shape the future of our world. If you’re ready to accelerate the new energy transition through technology leadership, innovative solutions and service excellence, you'll fit right in.

AI Agent & Copilot Solution Development

• Design, build and deploy AI agents (e.g. Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI) to support Customer, Vendor, Product and Data Governance processes.
• Build Copilot-based productivity solutions for the Global MDM teams – governance knowledge assistants, KPI narratives, meeting summaries, policy and SOP drafting.
• Create reusable, well-documented AI components, prompt libraries and agent templates that can be scaled globally across MDM.

Automation & Data Quality

• Automate repetitive operational and reporting activities using Power Automate, Python based AI agents and related tools.
• Embed AI in data quality monitoring, issue triage, root-cause analysis, remediation and governance workflows.
• Develop AI-assisted duplicate Customer / Vendor investigation, enrichment and classification (D&B hierarchy, NAICS).

MDM AI Roadmap Delivery

• Drive implementation of the 32 identified MDM AI use cases across Wave 1 (React faster), Wave 2 (Decide better) and Wave 3 (Prevent proactively).
• Support the Copilot Premium pilot – baseline, measure hours saved and recommend scale-up.
• Scope and build solutions requiring governed access to MDM and DQ data, including predictive DQ risk capabilities.

Partnership, Governance & Adoption

• Partner with Digital, IT and Data & Analytics on architecture, security, data access and future AI initiatives.
• Ensure AI solutions comply with Responsible AI, data privacy, security and audit requirements.
• Champion AI adoption – train and upskill MDM teams and share best practice globally.

•Accountable for designing, building and scaling AI agents, Copilot solutions and automation that deliver the Global MDM AI roadmap – improving productivity, data quality and governance – in line with company AI governance and security standards.

Skills

•AI / GenAI – Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI

•Agent development & prompt engineering

•Power Automate, Power Apps

•Data analytics – SQL, Power BI

•Turns business needs into solutions

•Collaborative, improvement mindset

Experience

•Hands-on delivery of AI, GenAI or automation solutions

•MDM and ERP domain knowledge (e.g. SAP)

•Global, multi-function environment

•Degree in Computer Science, Data Science or related

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career’s website (Careers - Smiths Group plc.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career’s website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)