S/4hana Data Design Expert

**Job Title : S/4HANA Data Design Expert -** **Global Trade Service(GTS)**

**Career Level : GCL - E**

**Relevant Experience : 10-15 years**

**Location : Chennai**

**ABOUT ASTRAZENECA**

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work.

**ABOUT THE PROGRAM**:
Axial is a strategic multi-year business transformation program helping AstraZeneca achieve its 2030 Bold Ambition. Axial will deliver the new backbone for our innovation, growth, and performance, and the technology driving Axial is SAP S/4HANA and its Business Technology Platform(s).

The Axial Technology team actively partners with our business colleagues to deliver cutting-edge technology capabilities to fulfil AstraZeneca’s bold ambition of delivering life changing medicines to patients. Our ambition is to provide best-in-class expertise and leadership in technological solutions and Information Delivery that empowers our colleagues in the field and accelerates and improves strategic decision-making for a diverse range of partners. The team engages with some of the most exciting business areas within AstraZeneca and is faced with solving for a variety of complex business and IT challenges.

**Job Summary**:
The S/4 Data Design Expert - _Global Trade Services (SAP GTS) _is responsible for coordinating on all business data requirements within the related S/4 HANA programme delivery, along with providing best practice data concept proposal into the design process, defining and documenting the GTS and S/4 Enterprise Data Standards as a key output and ensuring that existing SAP ECC data and S/4 GTS integrations are fit for purpose at the point of migration.

The role is aligned to the _Enterprise Process Owner (EPO) Order & Distribution to Cash (ODTC) organization _and the ODTC_ Data Design Lead team_ and supports the relationship between the S/4 Data & Analytics organization, the EPO organization and the SAP GTS process configuration delivery teams, whilst proactively engaging with the wider business (including data offices and governance forums) to ensure that the GTS and S/4 data design meets business requirements, aligns to standard practice where possible and that related data can be used with confidence achieving a Quality Core.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Land the definition, documentation and implementation of Enterprise Data standards related to GTS and additional Order & _Distribution_ to Cash (ODTC) domain, including master data, reference data and metadata - confirming the business context and ensuring alignment in accordance with defined data governance. To include the development of conceptual models, business glossary and ontologies.
- Provide GTS system expertise to steer and influence the future-state design considering best practice S/4 integration concepts.
- Collect and share relevant as-is data structures and harmonisation assessments alongside best practice to-be Data Design proposals and feed into the Global Design process where useful.
- Involvement in defining the change journey from current to future state data design including completion of change impact assessments and outline of critical use case examples.
- Ensure that data within GTS and broader _ODTC _data domain complies with the S/4 HANA Data Governance Framework and AZ Global Data Standards.
- Represent Analytics team in process workshops and support the discussion, collection and design of relevant ODTC Analytics capabilities, while ensuring the underlying data standards are covering analytic specifics requirements.

Assist in the development of the Programme Data Quality Strategy and secure its execution through steering the data quality approach for data within GTS and broader _ODTC_ area enabling simplified migration, interim state, and the ongoing management of data to ensure that it remains fit for purpose post deployment.
- Lead and direct the prioritisation of data delivery as related to GTS and broader ODTC, reporting on progress to ODTC Data Design Lead and other relevant stakeholders.
- Support relationship with current business data capability to ensure that GTS, S/4 design and the wider enterprise data design remain aligned (to include support of interim state).
- Assist & contribute to the development of the related Cleanse and Migrate strategy and execution approaches and plans.
- Support and contribute to the cleanse and enrichment approach for data across GTS and broader ODTC _data domain _in accordance with the overall data cleanse strategy.
- Provide support to project data migration processes, including the co-ordination of pre and post load business sign off.
- Assist the S/4 Data Governance team in the creation of effective global proc