Dimiour - SAP Technical Consultant - MDM Solutions

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The EDG Contractual Staff is responsible for designing, delivering and supporting enterprise digital master data management (MDM) solutions, to support Kimberly-Clark's global and enterprise digital master data requirements covering analytical as well as operational MDM solutions.

We are seeking engineers that build real-world applications on top of our platforms to help us solve our customers' domain-specific problems.

EDG Contractual Staff should be effective at linking the architectural vision with the business vision and building solutions that focus on business value and technical excellence; helping K-C to adopt and implement digital solutions.

They are passionate learners who keep up with evolving technologies and techniques and are willing to experiment with them to test what would work for the business.

Specifically on digital technologies (API, AI/ML, Cognitive RPA and Unified Cloud)

The EDG Contractual Staff has responsibility for the maintenance of the enterprise digital master data management platforms.

The EDG Contractual Staff is responsible for collaborating with the Data Feature Engineer, Solution Architect, Kimberly-Clark's internal business and technology partners (both globally and regionally), and other stakeholders to ensure correct designs and implementations are in place to deliver timely and accurate master data to enterprise decision-making as well as operational processes.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Enact as a Digital technology leader to sustain calibrations, discussions , Tech solutions and design thinking to supplement overall design principles in KC

2. Deliver as SME (tech +functional) to ensure that cross functional threads are owned and delivered.

3. Build digital Business Technology platforms; designs solutions for an increasingly connected world

4. Develops data solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions are innovative, seek opportunities for automation of tasks, and are consistent with organization objectives

5. Work with the agile development team to help scope and design products for resiliency, redundancy, supportability, and scalability

6. Ensure performance to system architecture, standards and best practices

7. Explore SAP DQM, SAP MDG, AI/ML and Cognitive RPA opportunities to automate Data Quality, master data integration tasks.

8. Design, implement and support the detailed master data components of all analytical (enterprise data warehouse/enterprise BI) as well as enterprise operational projects for master data domains, enterprise hierarchies, master data integration and data quality, etc.

9. Collaborate with project teams and architects on all aspects of MDG architecture (MDG data model, SAP MDM, Master data tools, data integration, master data quality, MDM operations, master data security, etc.)

10. Deliver per established methodologies for enterprise projects with an Master data component, such as technical requirements, design patterns, code reviews and testing procedures

11. Present to change control boards for validated systems to implement development into production

12. Regularly interact with leadership on project work status and priority setting.

13. Transfer knowledge to support resources to ensure environment supportability, stability and sustainability.

14. Work with source system, SME's and business teams to determine which source systems are the best sources (and targets where applicable) of Master Data for the MDM system.

DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC/NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. N/A

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Education required/ preferred : Bachelor's degree in a related field

Experience:

- 8+ years experience of Information Technology experience

- 4 to 8 year in in technical development roles on Master Data Management projects specifically in SAP MDG

- Experience developing solutions using SAP MDG designing, configuration of data model objects, data definition, workflow, BRF+, data replication framework including SOA and IDOC.

- Knowledge in SAP MDM, Angular JS will be an added advantage

- Exposure and experience working with SAP S4 HANA template.

- Experience with identifying, driving digital capabilities and opportunities in the master data, data quality space including API, Microservice, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, RPA and persona-based UI/UX

- Experience working within ITS Projects and/or Programs

- Experience working on projects in the MDG (operational and analytical MDM) space

- Experienced with MDG architecture, deployment and support.

- Global capability delivery experience

- Ability to influence multiple levels on highly technical issues and challenges

- Proven experience in navigating complex organizations, creative problem solving, and rational experimentation

- Self starter and proactive in identifying and driving opportunities

- At ease in establishing senior-level working relationships and communications

- Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the K-C organization including suppliers, partners and customers.

- Verbal and written fluency in English is mandatory

Skills/Competencies:

- Tech Leadership/Architectural vision Functional SME prowness.

Technical specialism:

- Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical specialisms, and provides expert advice regarding their application.

- Can supervise specialist technical consultancy.

- The specialism can be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, product or application area.

Service level management:

- Ensures that service delivery meets agreed service levels.

- Creates and maintains a catalogue of available services.

- In consultation with the customer negotiates service level requirements and agrees service levels.

- Diagnoses service delivery problems and initiates actions to maintain or improve levels of service.

- Establishes and maintains operational methods, procedures and facilities in assigned area of responsibility and reviews them regularly for effectiveness and efficiency.

Autonomy:

- Has defined authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects.

- Establishes organizational objectives and delegates responsibilities.

- Is accountable for actions and decisions taken by self and subordinates.

Influence:

- Influences policy formation on the contribution of own specialism to business objectives.

- Influences a significant part of own organization.

- Develops influential relationships with internal and external customers/suppliers/partners at senior management level, including industry leaders.

- Makes decisions which impact the work of employing organizations, achievement of organizational objectives and financial performance.

Complexity:

- Performs highly complex work activities covering technical, financial and quality aspects.

- Contributes to the formulation and implementation of IT strategy.

- Creatively applies a wide range of technical and/or management principles.

Business Skills:

- Absorbs complex technical information and communicates effectively at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Assesses and evaluates risk.

- Understands the implications of new technologies.

- Demonstrates clear leadership and the ability to influence and persuade.

- Has a broad understanding of all aspects of IT and deep understanding of own specialism(s).

- Understands and communicates the role and impact of IT in the employing organization and promotes compliance with relevant legislation.

- Takes the initiative to keep both own and subordinates' skills up to date and to maintain an awareness of developments in the IT industry.

Information management:

- The overall governance of how all types of information, structured and unstructured, whether produced internally or externally, are used to support decision-making, business processes and digital services.

- Encompasses development and promotion of the strategy and policies covering the design of information structures and taxonomies, the setting of policies for the sourcing and maintenance of the data content, and the development of policies, procedures, working practices and training to promote compliance with legislation regulating all aspects of holding, use and disclosure of data.

Other Skills: N/A

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS/SCOPE:

Role will report to a Manager in the ITS EDM&A organization and will have no direct reports.

Key Interfaces:

- Data Governance Leads and their working groups

- Global and Regional Data Owners

- Global and Regional Process Owners

- Business based data stewards and local business resources

- Data Feature Engineers

- Value Stream Owners

- Solution Architect

- Enterprise Architect

- Business stakeholders

- ITS Leadership including the Enterprise Architecture team

External Interfaces:

- Solution architects

- Consultant

- 3rd Party provider