SAP Master Data Governance Lead

Role overview

Business leadership and governance

• Drive business-unit adoption and challenge legacy data habits, non-standard taxonomies, and uncoordinated master data creation.
• Define, implement, and enforce enterprise master data policies, standards, ownership matrices, and operating models.
• Chair the Data Governance Council, resolve ownership disputes, and obtain executive sign-off on definitions and taxonomy decisions.
• Promote data quality culture and hold stakeholders accountable during migration and after go-live.

Taxonomy and architecture

• Design and maintain taxonomies, hierarchies, and metadata across materials/products, business partners/vendors/customers, financials/COA, and assets.
• Translate business processes into SAP S/4HANA data requirements and align the transition from Oracle EBS data structures.

Migration and oversight

• Lead data cleansing, enrichment, mapping, and validation with system integrators and migration partners, including tools such as ChainSys Data Management Suite.
• Define, monitor, and report data-quality metrics, readiness scorecards, and audit trails to executive management throughout the transformation.

Required qualifications and experience

• 10+ years of progressive experience leading MDG and MDM initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience leading SAP MDG implementations and data migrations in SAP S/4HANA (RISE with SAP) environments.
• Strong commercial acumen and demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, drive accountability, and uphold governance standards.
• Excellent executive-level presentation and negotiation skills in English, including communication with non-technical leaders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Preferred qualifications

• Oracle EBS-to-SAP S/4HANA migration experience is preferred.
• Dubai/UAE enterprise experience is preferred.
• Familiarity with ChainSys tools or similar automated extraction and transformation platforms is preferred.
• SAP MDG, DAMA-CDMP, or data governance certification is preferred.

Pay

• AED 11,000–24,000 per month.

Work location

• Work location is stated as in person.