**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** As an experienced SAP consultant at IBM Consulting, you will deliver innovative business solutions through design, build and test, including responsibility for systems integration. You will leverage your subject matter expertise and your leadership capabilities to ensure successful project delivery and client success. We will give you access to unique career opportunities, and a vast and diverse network of talented SAP professionals. The Functional Consultant provides advisory, design, configuration and implementation services for SAP Master Data Governance solutions, ensuring clients can establish effective master data processes, governance models and data quality frameworks across SAP landscapes. • Lead functional design, configuration and deployment of SAP MDG for domains such as Business Partner, Customer, Vendor, Material or Finance master data. • Facilitate blueprinting, process workshops and solution design sessions aligned to SAP MDG and SAP S/4HANA best practices. • Translate business requirements into functional specifications for MDG data models, workflows, UI configuration, rules and validations. • Support integration of MDG with SAP S/4HANA, ECC, CRM, SRM and non-SAP systems using SOA, RFC, IDoc and SAP Data Services. • Configure governance workflows, BRFplus rules, data replication frameworks and mass processing functionalities. • Define and implement master data governance policies, operating models and data quality standards. • Support data migration and data cleansing activities using MDG, SAP Data Services or related tools. • Collaborate with technical consultants on enhancements, extensions and custom objects for MDG. • Conduct system testing, integration testing, defect resolution and cutover support. • Provide thought leadership on SAP MDG capabilities, roadmap alignment and industry best practices. • Prepare functional documentation including solution designs, configuration documents, test scripts and training material. • Support client stakeholder management and provide post‑go‑live hypercare. **Required technical and professional expertise** • Strong functional experience with SAP Master Data Governance including configuration of data models, governance workflows and business rules. • Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA master data concepts including Business Partner, material master and finance master data. • Experience in SAP MDG data replication frameworks such as DRF, SOA services or ALE/IDoc integration. • Experience with BRFplus for rule-based decision logic. • Understanding of data governance principles, data quality management and master data lifecycle management. • Ability to run workshops, gather requirements and translate them into SAP MDG functional configurations. • Exposure to data migration, data consolidation or data quality improvement programs. • Familiarity with SAP BTP extension options for MDG is beneficial. **Preferred technical and professional experience** • Data Integration Knowledge: Experience with integrating master data management solutions using SAP HANA and related tools, ensuring seamless data flow across organizations. • Data Modeling Expertise: Experience in data modeling to support master data governance solutions, including data entity design and data relationship mapping. • Compliance Framework Understanding: Experience with compliance frameworks and regulations related to master data management, ensuring data quality and adherence to organizational standards. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.