SAP Data Governance & MDM Lead Hybrid in Edison, NJ, US

• Posted 7 hours ago

• Updated 7 hours ago Contract W2 Contract Independent Contract Corp To Corp Remote Depends on Experience Fitment Dice Job Match Score™ 🔢 Crunching numbers... Job Details Skills SAP Data Governance MDM SAP Data Governance MDM Summary The role Our client is building a data governance program from the ground up, and we need the person who will make it real. You will stand up the operating model and the organization behind it: who decides, who stewards, which policies apply, how quality gets measured, and how master data stays clean once it is fixed. The job is roughly two-thirds organizational and one-third technical. Most governance programs stall on adoption, not tooling, so we want someone who has gotten business owners to show up to a council meeting and keep showing up. What you will do Program standup: Assess current maturity, then write the governance charter, scope, roadmap, and success measures with the client's executive sponsor.

Operating model:

Design the governance structure (centralized, federated, or hybrid), stand up the executive steering committee and data governance council, and set their cadence, decision rights, and escalation paths.

Roles and accountability:

Define data owner, data steward, and data custodian roles; build the RACI; and help the client identify, onboard, and train the people who fill them.

Policies and standards:

Draft and gain approval for data governance policy, data quality standards, metadata standards, and data retention and classification guidelines, aligned with the client's privacy and compliance obligations. Business glossary and critical data elements: Lead the identification of critical data elements for priority domains and drive definitions, ownership, and approval workflow in the glossary.

Data quality management:

Define quality dimensions (completeness, accuracy, validity, consistency, timeliness, uniqueness), write measurable rules for critical data elements, stand up scorecards, and run an issue-management process with root-cause tracking.

Master data management:

Define MDM strategy for priority domains such as customer, supplier, material/product, or chart of accounts. Lead match-and-merge rules, survivorship logic, golden-record design, and the stewardship workflow for exceptions.

Metadata and lineage:

Guide configuration of the catalog and lineage tooling so stewards and analysts can find, trust, and trace data.

Change management and communication:

Build the training, communication plan, and adoption metrics that move governance from a document to daily practice.

Reporting:

Report program health, quality trends, and decisions to the steering committee each cycle. What you bring (required) 8+ years in data management, with at least 4 years leading data governance, data quality, or MDM work. Led at least one governance program from inception: charter, council, stewardship model, and policies, not only tool implementation. Fluency in

DAMA-DMBOK

knowledge areas, especially governance, data quality, metadata, and reference and master data. Hands-on experience with at least one data catalog or governance platform, such as Collibra, Alation, Informatica Axon/CD Microsoft Purview, or Atlan. Hands-on experience with at least one MDM platform, such as Informatica MDM, Reltio, Profisee, Stibo STEP, or SAP MDG. Ability to facilitate executive and cross-functional working sessions and to hold business owners accountable without formal authority over them.

Strong writing:

policies, charters, and steering-committee material that executives will actually read. Nice to have CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) certification from DAMA International. Experience with the EDM Council's DCAM framework or another maturity assessment model. Background in regulated industries or with regulatory drivers such as SOX, GDPR, CCPA, or HIPAA. Supply chain, manufacturing, or finance master data experience (supplier, material, customer, chart of accounts). SQL skills sufficient to profile data and validate quality rules yourself. Consulting or professional services background. Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools ("AI") that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.

Dice Id:

91074808

Position Id:

9102757 Posted 7 hours ago