Job Description

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The successful candidate will be responsible for defining and executing the overall data migration strategy, coordinating functional and technical teams, establishing data quality and governance standards, and overseeing migration activities through testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Migration Strategy & Planning

• Define the overall SAP S/4HANA data migration strategy, scope, approach, and roadmap in alignment with the program plan.
• Establish migration principles, selection and cut-off rules, data retention requirements, and archiving criteria.
• Define the appropriate migration tools and technical approach, including SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, LSMW, SAP Data Services/BODS, SAP Information Steward, and custom ETL solutions, where applicable.
• Own the end-to-end migration plan, including mock-load cycles, dress rehearsals, production migration, and cutover timelines.
• Define and maintain the migration object inventory, dependencies, and load sequence across functional modules.

Team & Stakeholder Management

• Lead and coordinate functional leads, data migration specialists, technical developers, business data owners, and legacy-system teams.
• Partner with program leadership, business stakeholders, system integration teams, and technical teams to drive migration readiness.
• Facilitate regular migration status meetings, risk reviews, and leadership updates.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, issues, and escalations throughout the migration lifecycle.

Data Governance & Quality

• Establish and drive the data quality framework, covering data profiling, cleansing, deduplication, enrichment, validation, and reconciliation.
• Oversee cleansing and remediation activities across legacy and staging environments.
• Define data-quality thresholds, validation criteria, and business sign-off requirements.
• Ensure migration activities comply with relevant data privacy, security, governance, and audit requirements.

Migration Design & Build Oversight

• Review and approve data mappings, transformation rules, migration templates, and specifications.
• Oversee the design and implementation of extraction, transformation, staging, and load processes.
• Ensure consistency and integrity of critical master data across functional areas, including Business Partner, Material Master, and financial/cost objects.
• Oversee defect resolution and performance optimization for migration and load programs.
• Ensure technical and functional migration designs align with the overall S/4HANA solution architecture.

Testing, Cutover & Go-Live

• Plan and manage mock migrations, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) data validation, and dress rehearsals.
• Monitor key migration metrics, including data volumes, success rates, error rates, reconciliation results, and load duration.
• Own the data cutover plan and runbook, including dependencies, sequencing, business validation, and go/no-go criteria.
• Lead production migration execution and coordinate data reconciliation and business sign-off.
• Manage migration-related hypercare and post-go-live data issues.
• Support the transition and handover for legacy-system decommissioning activities.

Governance & Reporting

• Maintain migration dashboards, RAID logs, issue trackers, reconciliation reports, and status reporting.
• Provide clear visibility of progress, risks, issues, and dependencies to program leadership and governance stakeholders.
• Ensure complete documentation and an appropriate audit trail for migration objects and activities.
• Drive timely resolution and escalation of critical migration risks and blockers.

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