SAP Data ArchitectOnsite: Austin, TXExpectations / Deliverables for the Role:• Experience of managing C-level (CIO/CEO/CXO) level stakeholder. • Played architect level role in defining data management strategy • Builds the SAP data foundation by defining how SAP systems store, share, and manage trusted enterprise data. • Produces reference data architectures by leveraging expert input from application, analytics, integration, platform, and security teams. These architectures form the basis for new solutions and enterprise data initiatives. • Enables analytics and AI use cases by ensuring data is consistent, governed, and discoverable.
• Leverages SAP Business Data Cloud, Datasphere, MDG and related capabilities to unify data and eliminate duplicate data copies. • Defines and maintains common data model catalogs to create a shared understanding of core business data. • Evolves data governance, ownership, metadata, and lineage standards across the enterprise. • Protects core transactional systems by preventing excessive replication and extraction loads. • Expertise in various tools / apps used to manage data and their pros and cons.Technical Proficiency:• Strong knowledge of SAP master and transactional data domains.
• Hands-on experience with SAP MDG, Business Data Cloud, BW, Datasphere, or similar platforms. • Expertise in data modeling, metadata management, data quality, and data governance practices. • Understanding of data architectures that support analytics, AI, and regulatory requirements. • Experience integrating SAP data with non-SAP analytics and reporting platforms.Soft Skills:• Ability to align data, and engineering teams around a shared data vision, drive consensus on data standards and decisions • Strong facilitation skills to resolve data ownership and definition conflicts. • Clear communicator who can explain architecture choices, trade-offs, and cost impacts to stakeholders.
• Pragmatic mindset focused on value, reuse, and simplification. • Comfortable challenging designs constructively in ARB reviews