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SAP Principal Solution Architect - MDG

IBM

IT

Sauk City, WI, USA · California, USA

Posted on Oct 21, 2025

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to help us grow and sustain our SAP Practice for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

Your role and responsibilities

Leads the design and governance of enterprise Master Data Management using SAP MDG. Defines the data architecture, governance workflows, and harmonization strategy to ensure consistency across ERP and reporting systems. Key Responsibilities:

Own end-to-end SAP MDG solution design for Finance, Vendor, Customer, and Material domains.
Define governance frameworks, workflows, validations, and data ownership models.
Lead workshops with business and IT for data harmonization and policy design.
Integrate MDG with S/4HANA, CFIN, BW/4HANA, and external systems.
Establish data quality metrics, cleansing approaches, and audit processes.
Partner with data governance councils and data stewards for sustainable governance.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

10+ years of experience in SAP data management or governance.
Minimum 3 full-cycle MDG implementations (Finance, BP, Material).
Strong stakeholder and governance leadership skills.
Experience in defining global data standards and workflows.
Expertise in SAP MDG (on S/4 or ECC) – data models, change requests, BRF+, workflow.
Familiarity with SLT, Data Services, and integration via SOA or APIs.
Knowledge of data replication and synchronization between SAP and non-SAP systems.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience establishing Data Governance Offices (DGO) or CoEs.
Exposure to enterprise data management tools (e.g., SAP Information Steward, Itego, Collibra, IBM Infosphere, SAB BW, Informatica...etc).
Knowledge of SAP MDG-F, SAP MDG-BP integration with Ariba, Fieldglass, or SuccessFactors.
Understanding of SAP Data Intelligence for data lineage and profiling.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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