SAP Data Archiving Consultant

SAP Data Archiving Consultant / SAP Data Archiving Specialist

Conshohocken, PA

Experience: 10+ years

SAP data archiving roles and responsibilities are divided among business, functional, and technical teams to ensure safe data removal and compliance.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

System / Basis Administrator - Configures the technical archiving landscape, file paths, and storage systems (such as the SAP Content Server).Schedules and executes write, delete, and read background jobs via transaction SARA. Monitors database growth and system performance metrics

Data Owner / Business Process Expert - Defines the functional retention and residence times based on business and legal requirements. Approves or rejects the archiving of specific business objects (like sales or purchasing documents) in workflows with decentralized governance. Ensures that critical active data is not prematurely marked for archiving

Content / Data Administrator - Identifies and marks data relevant for archiving based on completion status. Manages approval routing and coordinates workflow communication between technical and business teams

Compliance / Data Privacy Officer (DPO) - Sets data protection policies aligned with regulations like GDPR or SOX. Defines rules for data destruction, retention management, and handling personal data privacy blocks

Role Descriptions:

SAP data archiving requires a collaborative effort across different team roles to move inactive data safely from live databases to secondary storage using tools