Director SAP S/4HANA MDG
- Decision Six Inc.
8 Days Ago
85-90 per Hourly
W2
Oakbrook-IL
8-10 Years
Required Skills: Analytics , Dashboard, Data Flow , Data Management, Data Quality , Enterprise Resource Planning , FOCUS , Information Systems , Leadership , Management , Decision-making , EDP , Enterprise Information Management, Enterprise Integration
Job Description
Director- SAP S/4HANA MDG
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in Data Management, Data Platforms, Master Data Management, or Enterprise Information Management
- 5+ years leading data platform or MDM organizations.
- Strong expertise in SAP Master Data structures and business processes.
- Hands-on experience implementing and operating SAP MDG and/or SimpleMDG.
- Experience leading enterprise data quality initiatives.
- Experience enabling governance operating models and stewardship programs through platform capabilities
- Strong understanding of ERP transformation programs.
- Experience managing enterprise-scale cross-functional initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
The ideal candidate demonstrates strong expertise in:
- Enterprise Data Platform governance, including certified data assets, governed consumption layers, platform standards, controls, and auditability.
- Data product and certified consumption governance, including ownership visibility, certification practices, guardrails, and governance checkpoints across data products and analytics use cases.
- Metadata, catalog, lineage, and data intelligence capabilities, including traceability, classification, discovery, and transparency across source systems, EDP, data products, and consumption layers.
- Data quality monitoring and control frameworks, including profiling, dashboards, scorecards, preventative controls, issue visibility, and remediation tracking.
- SAP, SimpleMDG/SAP MDG, and master data platform enablement, including integration across SAP, EDP, enterprise applications, analytics platforms, and downstream consumption layers.
- Enterprise integration and lifecycle governance, including source-to-consumption data flows, integration patterns, retention, archiving, compliance, and platform controls.
- Governance-enabling tooling and enterprise transformation, including workflow automation, bots, agents, metadata/catalog tools, lineage tools, data quality platforms, ERP transformation, and enterprise-scale data platform change.
- Critical enterprise data domains and operating models, including supply chain, customer, commercial, and other core data domains, with clear distinction between business-owned governance decisions and DT-owned platform enablement.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Pragmatic execution, solves complex business and data problems and turns governance concepts into measurable results.
- Business process orientation, understands how trusted data supports operational execution, performance, analytics, and decision-making.
- Enterprise mindset, connects platform governance, certified data consumption, and data quality to business outcomes and transformation priorities.
- Influential leadership, builds alignment across Business Transformation, Digital Technology, Data Product Owners, architects, and senior stakeholders.
- Change and adoption focus, drives practical adoption of governance standards, platform controls, tooling, and ways of working.
- Continuous improvement discipline, improves data quality, platform reliability, governance effectiveness, and operational efficiency.
