SAP S/4HANA Data Migration Lead

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.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Minimum 8 years of SAP experience, with significant experience in SAP data migration.

Proven experience leading end-to-end SAP S/4HANA data migration programs.

Strong knowledge of SAP data migration methodologies, processes, and tools.

Hands-on knowledge of technologies and approaches such as: SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit SAP Data Services / BODS LSMW SAP Information Steward ETL and data transformation frameworks

Strong understanding of data profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and migration governance.

Experience coordinating data migration across multiple SAP functional areas and managing cross-module dependencies.

Strong understanding of SAP master and transactional data structures.

Experience planning and executing mock migrations, testing cycles, dress rehearsals, cutover, production loads, and hypercare.

Good understanding of SAP Solution Manager (SolMan) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) methodologies.

Strong program governance, risk management, and stakeholder management capabilities.

Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary functional and technical teams.

Strong communication and influencing skills, including engagement with senior business and technology stakeholders.

Ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, and multiple workstreams in an Agile and multinational environment.

Excellent written and spoken English.

Willingness to travel depending on project requirements.