Job Description - MDM Lead (Oil & Gas):

Position: MDM Lead

Industry: Oil & Gas / Energy

Experience: 10+ Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Nigeria/Vadodara

Department: Data Management / Digital Transformation / IT

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced MDM Lead with 10+ years of experience in Master Data Management, Data Governance, and enterprise data transformation, preferably within the Oil & Gas / Energy industry.

The MDM Lead will be responsible for defining and implementing the organization's Master Data Management strategy across key domains such as Material, Vendor/Supplier, Customer, Asset, Equipment, Location, and Plant data. The role will work closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, data owners, and functional teams to establish high-quality, standardized, governed, and trusted master data.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead the MDM strategy, roadmap, implementation, and continuous improvement across the organization.

- Establish and maintain Master Data Governance frameworks, policies, standards, processes, and controls.

- Define data ownership, stewardship, accountability, and governance structures across business functions.

- Manage master data domains including Material/Product, Vendor/Supplier, Customer, Asset/Equipment, Plant/Location, and Chart of Accounts.

- Lead data standardization, harmonization, cleansing, enrichment, deduplication, and data quality initiatives.

- Define and implement data quality rules, KPIs, dashboards, and monitoring mechanisms.

- Work with business and IT teams to establish data creation, modification, approval, and retirement workflows.

- Lead MDM integration with enterprise applications such as SAP, Oracle, ERP, procurement, maintenance, supply chain, and other operational systems.

- Support data migration and transformation initiatives during ERP, S/4HANA, cloud, or digital transformation programs.

- Define and maintain data models, taxonomies, hierarchies, naming conventions, and classification standards.

- Coordinate with Data Owners and Data Stewards to resolve data quality and governance issues.

- Lead MDM implementation projects, including requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.

- Develop business cases, project plans, resource requirements, and implementation roadmaps.

- Manage MDM vendors, implementation partners, and offshore/onshore teams where applicable.

- Establish data governance practices aligned with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

- Drive adoption of MDM and data governance processes across business units and operational sites.

- Prepare executive-level reports and dashboards on data quality, governance maturity, MDM adoption, and business value.

Oil & Gas Domain Responsibilities:

The candidate should understand master data challenges associated with Oil & Gas operations, including:

- Upstream, Midstream, and/or Downstream business processes.

- Asset and equipment hierarchy management.

- Plant, facility, functional location, and equipment master data.

- Materials, spare parts, and MRO master data.

- Supplier and contractor master data.

- Procurement and supply-chain data.

- Maintenance and reliability data.

- Product and customer master data.

- Standardization of technical specifications and material descriptions.

- Data harmonization across multiple plants, refineries, terminals, projects, and operating companies.

Required Skills & Experience:

- 10+ years of overall experience, with significant experience in MDM, Data Governance, Data Quality, or Enterprise Data Management.

- Strong experience leading enterprise MDM programs or large-scale data transformation initiatives.

- Experience working with ERP environments, preferably SAP / SAP S/4HANA.

- Strong understanding of MDM concepts, data governance, data quality, metadata, reference data, and data lifecycle management.

- Experience with one or more MDM platforms such as SAP MDG, Informatica MDM, Reltio, IBM MDM, Stibo Systems, or similar platforms.

- Strong understanding of data integration and ETL concepts.

- Experience with data profiling, cleansing, matching, merging, survivorship, and duplicate management.

- Knowledge of SQL and experience working with enterprise databases is preferred.

- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

- Experience managing cross-functional teams and implementation partners.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project-management capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Management, or a related discipline.

- Certification in Data Management / Data Governance / MDM is an advantage.

- Experience with DAMA-DMBOK principles is preferred.

- Oil & Gas / Energy industry experience is strongly preferred.

- Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation, SAP MDG, or enterprise data migration programs is highly desirable.

Key Competencies:

- Master Data Management

- Data Governance

- Data Quality Management

- Data Strategy & Transformation

- SAP / ERP Data

- Data Architecture

- Stakeholder Management

- Program & Project Management

- Business Process Understanding

- Vendor Management

- Leadership & Team Management

- Change Management

Key Success Measures:

- Improvement in master data quality and completeness.

- Reduction in duplicate and inaccurate master records.

- Successful implementation and adoption of MDM governance processes.

- Standardization and harmonization of master data across business units and locations.

- Successful integration of MDM with ERP and enterprise applications.

- Improved operational efficiency, procurement effectiveness, asset management, and reporting through trusted master data.