Senior Consultant, Functional MDG

Job purpose

Ensure an effective Master Data Governance (MDG) product that supports alfanar's global data strategy. Maintaining high-quality, compliant, and well-integrated master data across systems, enabling consistent, secure, and reliable data for enterprise operations.

Key accountability areas

Product strategy & vision:

Define the product roadmap for enterprise data governance tools (e.g. Pilog, SAP MDG).

Align with global data strategy and business objectives.

Master data process ownership:

Own end-to-end MDG product lifecycle.

Implement governance rules, workflows, validations, and controls as per the business owners' decisions.

Integration & architecture:

Oversee integration with SAP S/4HANA, Data Dictionary, APIs, data services, and legacy systems.

Ensure compatibility across alfanar eco-system.

Data quality & cleansing:

Recommend and implement upon business owner approval data profiling, cleansing, and enrichment initiatives.

Partner with data stewards to maintain high-quality master data, qualify the dictionary.

Global data migration:

Define migration strategy, mapping rules, transformation logic.

Oversee cutover and mock tests for global rollouts.

Stakeholder engagement:

Act as liaison between business, IT, and data teams.

Collect requirements, manage and execute backlog, and prioritize features.

Risk & compliance:

Ensure adherence to GDPR, SOX, internal policies, and data governance frameworks (ISO/DAMA).

Product lifecycle management:

Responsible for delivering MDG product features, enhancements, and integrations on time.

Ensure continuous improvements and innovation.

Role accountability

HR proficiency:

Ability to obtain updated soft and technical skills related to the job.

Delivery:

Perform the planned activities to meet the operational and development targets as per delivery schedules.

Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time.

Provide a periodic report formatted by detailing the deviation and execution of planned tasks.

Problem-solving:

Solve any related problems that arise and escalate any complex operational issues.

Quality:

Ensure quality requirements to develop effective quality control and processes including specifications for products or processes or related activities.

Business process improvements:

Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities as much as possible.

Compliance:

Comply with related policy and procedures and work instructions.

Health, safety, and environment:

Ensure compliance of relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls within defined area of work activity to guarantee safety, legislative compliance, and delivery of high-quality products/services.

Academic qualification

Bachelor's degree in Information Management Sciences & Systems or any relevant field.

Work experience

6 to 10 years

Technical / functional competencies

Data governance and stewardship

Data quality assurance

Corporate data architecture standards