Platinum Consultant

We are seeking a highly experienced SAP Data Migration Lead/Architect with over 15 years of SAP expertise, specializing in end-to-end data migration programs. The ideal candidate will take ownership of defining migration strategies, leading migration workstreams, ensuring data quality, and coordinating efforts across business, functional, technical, and SAP teams to achieve successful migration and cutover for SAP S/4HANA and ECC transformation projects.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead comprehensive SAP data migration programs, including SAP S/4HANA and ECC transformations.
- Develop and implement data migration strategy, methodology, governance, standards, and execution plans.
- Analyze legacy systems to identify data objects, volumes, dependencies, transformation rules, and migration complexities.
- Oversee all migration activities such as data extraction, profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, validation, loading, reconciliation, and final sign-off.
- Collaborate closely with business process owners and SAP functional teams to define data requirements and mapping rules.
- Manage migration of critical objects including Business Partners, Customers, Vendors, Materials and Material Master, Finance master and transactional data, Assets, BOMs, Routings, Production data, Purchasing and Sales data, Inventory and open transactions, Pricing, and other application-specific objects.
- Define and govern data mapping, transformation, validation, and business rules.
- Provide technical leadership for migration tools including SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, SAP Data Services, LTMC, LSMW, IDocs, BAPIs, APIs, and custom ETL solutions.
- Establish and monitor data quality frameworks focusing on completeness, accuracy, consistency, uniqueness, and integrity.
- Lead multiple mock migration cycles, ensuring defects are identified, tracked, resolved, and retested.
- Develop detailed cutover and migration execution plans; coordinate dress rehearsals, production migration, reconciliation, and hypercare activities.
- Implement migration KPIs, dashboards, issue management processes, and executive reporting.
- Identify and resolve migration risks, dependencies, and technical or business issues.
- Manage offshore and onshore migration teams, coordinating with system integrators and client stakeholders.
- Mentor senior consultants and migration leads, providing technical guidance across workstreams.
- Ensure compliance with project governance, security, audit, and data retention policies.

Required Qualifications

- Over 15 years of SAP experience with a strong focus on SAP Data Migration.
- Proven expertise in SAP S/4HANA transformation, implementation, rollout, or conversion projects.
- Deep understanding of SAP master data and transactional data structures.
- Experience managing large-scale data migration programs across multiple SAP modules.
- Strong knowledge of migration methodologies, data governance, reconciliation, and cutover management.
- Hands-on or working knowledge of SAP Migration Cockpit and SAP Data Services.
- Proficiency with ETL tools, SQL, data profiling, cleansing, transformation, and reconciliation.
- Solid understanding of SAP integration technologies such as APIs, IDocs, BAPIs, and interfaces.
- Ability to collaborate with functional teams across FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, PM, WM/EWM, and other SAP modules.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

- Experience with SAP S/4HANA Greenfield and Brownfield migration projects.
- Familiarity with SAP Activate methodology.
- Knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and modern integration/data services.
- Experience with cloud transformation initiatives, including SAP RISE and hyperscaler environments.
- Background in global template rollouts and multi-country migration programs.
- SAP certifications in S/4HANA, Data Migration, or relevant functional/technical areas are highly desirable.

This role demands a seasoned professional capable of operating at a strategic level as a Migration Lead, Data Migration Architect, or Program-level Subject Matter Expert. The candidate will independently drive migration strategy and execution, overseeing the entire migration lifecycle rather than focusing solely on individual data objects.

Typical Deliverables

- Data Migration Strategy and Roadmap
- Data Object Inventory
- Source-to-Target Mapping Specifications
- Data Transformation Rules
- Data Cleansing Strategy
- Migration Workbooks and Templates
- Migration Execution Plan
- Mock Migration Results
- Data Reconciliation Reports
- Cutover Plan and Runbook
- Migration Status Dashboard
- Data Migration Sign-off and Completion Report

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