The role involves designing master data governance strategies for S/4HANA, leading workshops for data harmonization, configuring validation rules, and collaborating with teams for data migration.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and lead the enterprise master data governance strategy and framework for S/4HANA global template consolidation
- Architect SAP MDG solution covering key domains: Customer (MDG-C), Vendor/Supplier (MDG-S), Material (MDG-M), and Finance (MDG-F) including chart of accounts and cost center harmonization
- Lead master data harmonization workshops to identify duplicates, conflicts, and gaps across multiple regional SAP instances
- Define master data governance rules: data ownership, stewardship workflows, approval hierarchies, validation rules, and data quality scoring
- Configure MDG business rules framework (BRF+) for data validation and enrichment workflows
- Design MDG consolidation and co-existence scenarios for phased migration waves (region-by-region instance merges)
- Collaborate with data migration team on MDG-to-LSMW/migration cockpit handoff, defining data mapping and transformation rules
- Integrate MDG with S/4HANA operational processes: vendor invoice matching, customer order management, material requirements planning
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for master data quality and establish ongoing MDG operational governance model
- Lead SIT and UAT for all MDG workflows; train data stewards and business data owners
- Produce MDG architecture documentation, data governance policy documentation, and data dictionaries
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years SAP master data management experience with 4+ years specifically in SAP MDG
- Hands-on MDG configuration experience across at least two of the four core domains: MDG-C, MDG-S, MDG-M, MDG-F
- At least 1 full-cycle MDG implementation on a multi-instance consolidation or global rollout program
- Experience with BRF+ (Business Rule Framework Plus) for MDG validation rule configuration
- Strong data modeling skills: entity relationships, data hierarchy design, duplicate check configuration
- Experience with MDG data replication to ECC/S/4HANA operational systems (SOA/Web services, ALE/IDoc)
- Knowledge of S/4HANA master data changes: Business Partner (BP) migration replacing customer/vendor, material ledger, profit center restructuring
- Ability to lead cross-functional workshops with business data owners, IT, and regional stakeholders
- Preferred / Nice-to-Have
- Experience on 4+ regional instance consolidation programs (customer, vendor, material master deduplication at scale)
- Exposure to SAP Information Steward or SAP Data Services for data quality profiling and ETL
- MDG S/4HANA Cloud or MDG on HANA experience
- Knowledge of SAP Customer Data Cloud (CDC) or SAP Customer Experience (CX) integration with MDG
- Consumer Goods experience: global material master complexity, retail customer hierarchies, global vendor onboarding
- SAP MDG certification preferred
Top Skills
Ale
Brf+
Idoc
Mdg-C
Mdg-F
Mdg-M
Mdg-S
S/4Hana
Sap Customer Data Cloud
Sap Customer Experience
Sap Data Services
Sap Information Steward
Sap Mdg
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