Role: Intelligent Automation Governance Lead – SAP S/4HANA
Duration: 12 months
Location: Sacramento, CA
Job Summary
The Intelligent Automation Governance Lead – SAP S/4HANA will lead the assessment, governance, redesign, and remediation of Finance automation solutions as the organization transitions from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA.
This person will ensure existing production automations continue to operate with minimal business disruption throughout the S/4HANA migration. The role requires a strong combination of UiPath RPA expertise, SAP S/4HANA migration knowledge, intelligent/agentic AI capabilities, and enterprise automation governance.
The ideal candidate will have experience managing large-scale automation portfolios and understanding how changes to SAP T-Codes, BAPIs, Fiori applications, interfaces, APIs, and data models impact existing automations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead automation continuity efforts throughout the SAP S/4HANA migration.
- Assess the Finance automation portfolio and determine whether each automation should be retained, redesigned, retired, or replaced.
- Identify and remediate high-impact automations based on business criticality and migration risk.
- Partner with SAP S/4HANA project teams, SAP IT teams, and Finance AI & Automation teams to maintain the automation redesign and re-delivery roadmap.
- Ensure automation remediation activities remain aligned with the overall S/4HANA implementation and migration timeline.
- Develop and maintain a reference architecture for S/4HANA-compatible automations, including reusable patterns, standards, and design guidelines.
- Establish and enforce release governance and change-control processes for production automation releases.
- Maintain automation portfolio trackers, readiness dashboards, remediation status, and risk reporting.
- Perform impact analysis for changes involving SAP T-Codes, BAPIs, Fiori apps, interfaces, integrations, and data models.
- Define release management, versioning, environment governance, and change-control standards across Dev, Test, and Production.
- Coordinate automation remediation activities through S/4HANA design, cutover, and hypercare phases.
- Advise Finance leadership on automation continuity risks, governance, and S/4HANA readiness.
- Lead governance boards, design reviews, and readiness checkpoints with cross-functional stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in Intelligent Automation, RPA delivery, platform governance, or enterprise automation lifecycle management.
- 5+ years of hands-on UiPath experience, including architecture and governance.
- Proven experience assessing and remediating large automation portfolios during major ERP or technology migrations.
- Hands-on experience with an SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of how ECC-to-S/4HANA changes impact automation, including:
- T-Codes
- BAPIs
- Fiori applications
- Tables and data models
- Interfaces
- Integrations
- Strong understanding of Finance processes, including:
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
- Record-to-Report (R2R)
- Order-to-Cash (O2C)
- Shared Services
- Experience creating and managing release governance and change-control frameworks.
- Previous experience as a Solution Architect, Automation Lead, Senior Engineer, or Principal Engineer in an enterprise-scale automation environment.
- Experience working with distributed development teams and global stakeholders across multiple time zones.
Must-Have Technical Skills
UiPath / Intelligent Automation
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- UiPath Studio
- UiPath Orchestrator
- Enterprise RPA architecture
- Strong experience with UiPath Agentic AI capabilities, including:
- UiPath Maestro
- Action Center
- Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
- UiPath AI Center
- Intelligent Xtraction Platform (IXP)
- Integration Services
- UiPath Conversational Agents
- Ability to design and review UiPath libraries, reusable components, and enterprise automation frameworks.
SAP S/4HANA & Integration
- Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA and automation continuity.
- Experience with SAP Joule and SAP Business AI and their relationship with UiPath agentic automation.
- Hands-on experience with SAP Fiori and understanding of how Fiori changes affect automation.
- Strong knowledge of:
- BAPIs
- RFC-enabled Function Modules
- IDocs
- OData
- REST APIs
- Familiarity with SAP:
- T-Codes
- SAP GUI transactions
- Backend tables
- Ability to identify and map ECC processes and automation dependencies to their S/4HANA equivalents.
Automation Governance & Cloud
- Experience with:
- Release management
- Version control
- Dev/Test/Prod environment governance
- CI/CD for automation deployments
- Automation monitoring
- Exception handling
- Production support governance
- Experience with automation agent lifecycle management across Dev, Test, and Production environments.
- Experience with cross-tenant automation migration and governance.
APIs, Data & Integrations
- Strong experience with API-based integrations.
- Experience working with:
- SharePoint Lists
- Microsoft Graph APIs
- MySQL
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
- Structured and unstructured data sources
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with UiPath Apps.
- Experience with UiPath Data Fabric.
- Knowledge of Healing Agents.
- Experience with Screenplay.
- Experience with UiPath Autopilot.
- Exposure to UiPath Bring-Your-Own-Model (BYOM).
- Experience with SAP Joule and SAP Business AI.
- Additional experience with RPA portfolio migrations and automation redesign during S/4HANA programs.
Leadership & Communication
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work with technical teams and Finance business users.
- Experience leading governance boards, design reviews, and readiness checkpoints.
- Ability to communicate automation migration risks and business impacts to executive stakeholders.
- Strong ownership of end-to-end automation continuity.
- Consulting mindset with the ability to balance speed, risk, governance, scalability, and business value.
- Ability and willingness to adopt emerging AI, agentic AI, cloud, and automation technologies.
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