Blue Pearl HQ

SAP HANA Master Data Governance Lead

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Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF

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Information Technology • Pet • Professional Services

The Role

Leads SAP Master Data Governance for an S/4HANA transformation, defining governance frameworks, policies, controls, stewardship models, workflows, business rules, integrations, and data-quality initiatives. Serves as the primary liaison among business stakeholders, data owners, governance teams, and offshore delivery teams. Oversees solution delivery, testing, deployment, training, change management, business readiness, and post-go-live adoption, with significant onsite client engagement.

Summary Generated by Built In

The SAP MDG Lead will be responsible for leading the SAP Master Data Governance work-stream on an S/4HANA transformation program. The role will act as the primary interface between business stakeholders, data owners, governance teams, and the offshore delivery team to define, implement, and operationalize master data governance processes across the client landscape.

The successful candidate will provide leadership across master data governance, data quality, business process design, change management, testing, deployment, and post-go-live adoption. The role requires deep SAP MDG expertise combined with strong stakeholder engagement and banking industry experience.

Responsibilities:

• SAP MDG Strategy & Governance: Define and lead the master data governance framework, policies, controls, and stewardship model across the project.

• Solution Design & Delivery: Lead the design and implementation of SAP MDG solutions, workflows, business rules, and integrations.

• Business Engagement: Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the program team for all MDG-related activities. Expectation is to be on client site minimum 4 days/week.

• Data Quality: Drive data quality improvement, cleansing, validation, and governance initiatives across master data domains.

• Testing, Deployment & Adoption: Oversee testing, business readiness, deployment, training, and successful adoption of SAP MDG capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or related discipline.
SAP MDG Certification.
Minimum 10 years SAP experience.
Minimum 5 years SAP MDG experience.

Preferred Skills

SAP S/4HANA Certification.
Proven experience leading SAP MDG or Master Data Governance initiatives.
Experience working on SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
Experience engaging business and executive stakeholders.

Skills Required

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or a related discipline
SAP MDG Certification
Minimum 10 years of SAP experience
Minimum 5 years of SAP MDG experience
SAP S/4HANA Certification
Experience leading SAP MDG or Master Data Governance initiatives
Experience working on SAP S/4HANA transformation programs
Experience engaging business and executive stakeholders

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The Company

22 Employees

Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Blue Pearl is a market-leading CLOUD Solutions developer with extensive knowledge and insight into the latest technologies, standardised processes, advanced technical capabilities and consulting processes available, ensuring wholistic success for our clientele. We offer professional consulting to compliment your business strategy and overall management and make it our priority to add value to any business by listening, analysing and creating a conducive solution that will empower our client. We implement a Data Analysis Process that includes inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modelling data with the end-goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and relevant information to support your decision-making. Your business cannot afford not to engage with us, allowing our data analysis to play a role in making your business decisions more scientific and helping your business achieve effective operation. Blue Pearl’s team of experts include BI strategists, BI analysts, Data Warehouse Architects, Data Scientists, Implementation and Development experts. With the use of BI, Analytics and Big Data, we effectively partner with our customers on their mission to achieve a competitive business advantage and real ROI from the structured information we collect.