Bring your SAP Master Data Governance expertise to a high-impact enterprise architecture role focused on shaping master data strategy, governance, and scalable solutions across a large global environment. This position offers the opportunity to partner with business and technical teams to turn complex data challenges into practical, production-ready outcomes that support transformation, innovation, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define and support the enterprise strategy, roadmap, standards, and governance framework for master data capabilities.
- Serve as a technical leader for master data domains such as material, customer, supplier/vendor, business partner, finance, product, reference, and hierarchy data.
- Design and guide secure, scalable SAP MDG solutions integrated with SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BTP, enterprise data platforms, and third-party systems.
- Work closely with business partners, product teams, engineers, and delivery groups to translate needs into clear requirements and solution approaches.
- Prototype and validate ideas for data quality, workflow, integration, automation, and AI-enabled improvements using real business scenarios.
- Support implementations from discovery through deployment, stabilization, adoption, and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical leadership during data conversion, cutover activities, and production issue resolution.
- Collaborate with data owners and governance teams to establish standards, accountability, lineage, and quality controls.
- Create reusable architecture patterns, accelerators, and solutions that can be applied across the enterprise.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- 12+ years of overall IT experience with a bachelor's degree, or 10+ years with an advanced degree.
- 8+ years of experience designing and implementing SAP MDG solutions.
- At least 5+ years in enterprise, solution, or lead architecture roles.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of SAP configuration, data modeling, integration, APIs, workflow, automation, data quality, and troubleshooting.
- Proven experience guiding large-scale SAP transformation initiatives through implementation and deployment.
- Ability to translate business problems into effective technical solutions while balancing standards, compliance, and delivery goals.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
Preferred Skills
- Master's degree or SAP certification in SAP MDG, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, enterprise architecture, or a related area.
- Experience implementing SAP MDG on SAP S/4HANA and extending capabilities through SAP BTP.
- Experience building prototypes or accelerators using APIs, event-driven integration, workflow, automation, cloud services, SQL, data analysis, or scripting.
- Exposure to AI or machine learning for matching, classification, enrichment, anomaly detection, or workflow optimization.
- Background in consulting, solution engineering, field engineering, product engineering, or similar delivery-focused roles.
- Experience in regulated industries, mergers and acquisitions, global delivery, or enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or SAP Datasphere.
Horizontal is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences can thrive. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion as essential to innovation and success, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
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Please apply through this online posting or by visiting our Job Board at Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $69 - $107 per hour based on qualifications and experience.
