Job Description:

SAP Data Migration Lead – 15+ Years Experience
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced SAP Data Migration Lead/Architect with 15+ years of SAP experience and strong expertise in end-to-end data migration programs. The candidate will be responsible for defining migration strategy, leading migration workstreams, ensuring data quality, and coordinating business, functional, technical, and SAP teams through successful migration and cutover.

Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end SAP data migration programs for SAP S/4HANA and ECC transformation initiatives.

Define data migration strategy, methodology, governance, standards, and execution roadmap.

Assess legacy systems and identify data objects, volumes, dependencies, transformation rules, and migration complexity.

Lead migration activities including data extraction, profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, validation, loading, reconciliation, and sign-off.

Work closely with business process owners and SAP functional teams to define data requirements and mapping rules.

Manage migration objects such as:

Business Partners / Customers / Vendors

Materials and Material Master

Finance master and transactional data

Assets

BOMs, Routings and Production data

Purchasing and Sales data

Inventory and open transactions

Pricing and other application-specific objects

Define and manage data mapping, transformation, validation, and business rules.

Provide technical leadership for migration tools such as SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, SAP Data Services, LTMC, LSMW, IDocs, BAPIs, APIs, and custom ETL solutions, as applicable.

Establish data quality frameworks and monitor completeness, accuracy, consistency, uniqueness, and integrity.

Lead multiple mock migration cycles and ensure defects are identified, tracked, resolved, and retested.

Develop and manage detailed cutover and migration execution plans.

Coordinate dress rehearsals, production migration, reconciliation, and hypercare activities.

Establish migration KPIs, dashboards, issue-management processes, and executive reporting.

Identify migration risks, dependencies, and technical/business issues and drive them to closure.

Manage offshore/onshore migration teams and coordinate with SI partners and client stakeholders.

Mentor senior consultants and migration leads and provide technical guidance across migration workstreams.

Ensure migration activities comply with project governance, security, audit, and data-retention requirements.

Required Skills
15+ years of overall SAP experience with significant experience in SAP Data Migration.

Strong experience in SAP S/4HANA transformation, implementation, rollout, or conversion programs.

Strong 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 strong working knowledge of SAP Migration Cockpit and SAP Data Services.

Experience with ETL, SQL, data profiling, data cleansing, transformation, and reconciliation.

Strong understanding of SAP integration technologies including APIs, IDocs, BAPIs, and interfaces.

Ability to work with functional teams across FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, PM, WM/EWM, and other SAP modules.

Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.

Experience leading geographically distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with SAP S/4HANA Greenfield and Brownfield migrations.

Experience with SAP Activate methodology.

Knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and modern integration/data services.

Experience with cloud transformation programs such as SAP RISE / hyperscaler environments.

Experience in global template rollouts and multi-country migration programs.

SAP certification in S/4HANA, Data Migration, or relevant functional/technical areas is desirable.

Leadership Expectations
At 15+ years of experience, the candidate should be capable of operating at Migration Lead / Data Migration Architect / Program-level SME level, independently driving strategy and execution rather than focusing only on individual migration objects.

Typical Deliverables
Data Migration Strategy and Roadmap

Data Object Inventory

Source-to-Target Mapping Specifications

Data Transformation Rules

Data Cleansing Strategy

Migration Workbooks / 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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For any questions related to Job Description, you may connect with below specified contact from Recruiting.

Recruiter Name: Swetha Pilli

Recruiter Email ID: swetha.pilli.ext@nttdata.com

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