Data Governance Lead (MDG) – SAP Expert, Onsite Foster City

HireArt; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Employer subsidized healthcare

Flexible Spending Account for health

Disability and life insurance

401k package

Job summary

HireArt is helping an on-demand, autonomous ride-hailing company find a Data Lead - Data Governance/MDG to advance enterprise data maturity across Manufacturing Operations in Foster City, CA.

You will assess the current data management environment, define a scalable governance model, and develop a phased roadmap for implementing stronger master data governance capabilities, data quality, and MDG/MDM platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in data management, data governance, enterprise data governance, SAP data, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of data ownership, stewardship, workflows, approvals, data quality, auditability, and change control.
• Experience supporting or implementing enterprise MDM or MDG platforms; SAP MDG experience is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of SAP data processes across one or more domains (MM, PP, QM, EWM, TM, FSM, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, quality, or service operations).
• Experience conducting current-state assessments, gap analyses, capability assessments, and roadmap development.

Responsibilities

• Assess existing data management processes, tools, workflows, controls, and governance practices.
• Conduct a gap analysis between current MDM capabilities and target-state MDG requirements, including workflows, approvals, stewardship, audit trails, data quality, duplicate prevention, and governance controls.
• Evaluate SAP MDG and comparable MDM or MDG platforms against business needs, the existing SAP landscape, and manufacturing operations requirements.
• Partner with Enterprise Data Governance, Business Applications, SAP functional teams, PLM and 3DX owners, data stewards, and process owners to define the target-state governance model.
• Develop the business case and phased roadmap for MDG, including scope, value drivers, dependencies, risks, and implementation priorities.
• Define governance requirements across material master, supplier and vendor, customer and service, and other Manufacturing Operations data domains.
• Document data ownership, stewardship responsibilities, approval workflows, change-control requirements, and governance checkpoints.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual data enrichment, standardize approvals, improve data quality, and strengthen auditability.
• Prioritize MDG use cases based on business impact, data readiness, process maturity, and system dependencies. Translate business and process needs into functional and technical requirements for MDG or MDM implementation.
• Define data quality rules, validation checks, duplicate-detection requirements, reporting needs, and exception-management processes.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to align on process design, ownership, governance requirements, and implementation priorities.
• Develop executive-ready recommendations, documentation, and roadmap materials.

Skills

Data governance

SAP MDG

MDM platforms

Data quality

Workflow design

Stewardship

Stakeholder mgmt

Cross-functional collab

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP MDG

MDM platforms

Job description

HireArt is helping an on-demand, autonomous ride-hailing company find a Data Lead - Data Governance/MDG to advance enterprise data maturity across Manufacturing Operations in Foster City, CA.

You will assess the current data management environment, define a scalable governance model, and develop a phased roadmap for implementing stronger master data governance capabilities, data quality, and MDG/MDM platforms.