Principal IT Technologist

About the role

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.