SAP Managing MDG Architect

Capgemini; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Training and development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Job summary

A global consulting firm in Birmingham is seeking an experienced SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) Senior Architect to lead complex data transformation programmes. You will define SAP MDG architectures, ensure governance best practices, and mentor teams. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of SAP data management experience, including significant work with MDG, and will thrive in a hybrid working environment that promotes flexibility and innovation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of SAP data management experience with 5+ years in MDG.
• Proven enterprise-level MDG implementation experience.
• Strong knowledge of data quality processes and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and design SAP MDG solutions for enterprise clients.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure data governance best practices.
• Mentor team members and contribute to best practices.

Skills

SAP data management experience

Solution design

Stakeholder engagement

Data governance frameworks

Data modelling

Consulting background

Tools

SAP MDG

S/4HANA

SAP BTP

SAP Migration Cockpit

Job description

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, technology services, and digital transformation. With 420,000+ team members worldwide, we help organisations unlock the value of technology to build intelligent, sustainable, future ready enterprises.

As part of our growing Data & AI EDM team in our Insights & Data Practice, we are looking for an experienced SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) Senior Architect to shape and lead complex data transformation programmes for some of the UK’s most recognisable brands.

The Role And What You Will Be Doing

As an SAP MDG Senior Architect, you will be the strategic lead for designing, architecting, and delivering enterprise-scale master data governance solutions. You’ll work closely with clients, delivery teams, and senior stakeholders to define MDG roadmaps, ensure architectural integrity, and drive adoption of data governance best practices.

What You’ll Do

Strategic Leadership

• Define end-to-end SAP MDG architectures aligned to business, data, and transformation strategies.
• Lead solution design workshops, blueprinting sessions, and governance forums.
• Shape MDG roadmaps, operating models, and future-state visions for enterprise clients.

Solution Architecture & Delivery

• Architect SAP MDG solutions across domains (Customer, Vendor, Material, Finance, etc.).
• Design data models, change request workflows, validation rules, derivations, and BRF+ logic.
• Oversee MDG integrations with S/4HANA, ECC, SAP BTP, data quality tools, and external systems.
• Guide delivery teams through build, test, deployment, and hypercare phases.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the trusted adviser to C suite, business, and technical stakeholders.
• Present architecture recommendations, solution options, and design decisions confidently.
• Ensure business outcomes, data quality improvements, and compliance targets are achieved.

Commercial & Pre Sales Support

• Contribute to shaping solution estimates, architecture inputs, and technical content for commercial proposals.
• Support pre sales conversations by articulating MDG approaches, delivery options, and value propositions when required.

Thought Leadership

• Contribute to Capgemini methodologies, accelerators, and best practices.
• Mentor consultants and architects in MDG, data governance, and SAP data management.

About You

Required Experience

• 8+ years of SAP data management experience, with 5+ years hands on in SAP MDG.
• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale MDG implementations.
• Strong knowledge of master data domains, governance frameworks, and data quality processes.

Expertise in:

• MDG Central Governance & Consolidation
• Data modelling
• BRF+ rules & workflow design
• S/4HANA MDG capabilities and deployment options
• Experience integrating MDG with SAP and non-SAP landscapes.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of SAP BTP, SAP DI/DQM, or SAP MDS.
• Experience with data migration tools (SAP Migration Cockpit, BODS, or similar).
• SAP MDG or S/4HANA certification.
• Strong consulting or client-facing delivery background.

Additional Info

Security Clearance: To be successfully appointed to this role, must be eligible to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

What We’ll Offer You

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why we’re different

At Capgemini, we help organisations across the world become more agile, more competitive, and more successful. Smart, tailored, often ground-breaking technical solutions to complex problems are the norm. But so, too, is a culture that’s as collaborative as it is forward thinking. Working closely with each other, and with our clients, we get under the skin of businesses and to the heart of their goals. You will too.

Capgemini is proud to represent nearly 130 nationalities and its cultural diversity. Our holistic definition of diversity extends beyond gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, race, age, and religion. Capgemini views diversity as everything that makes us who we are as an organization, including our social background, our experiences in life and work, our communication styles and even our personality. These dimensions contribute to the type of diversity we value the most: diversity of thought.