Sr. SAP S/4HANA Data Migration, Governance & Integration Lead

Position: Sr Techno-functional SAP S/4HANA Data Migration, Governance & Integration Lead
Location: Remote (If there is ANY TRAVEL the Client pays all travel expenses)
Employment type: Contract to hire
End customer: Aerospace & Defence company

Position Summary

The Data Readiness and Governance Lead is responsible for leading all data activities for an SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Brownfield transformation. This role oversees data strategy, readiness, quality, governance, validation, and migration execution across master data and transactional data.

The position serves as the primary liaison among business stakeholders, functional teams, technical teams, and program leadership to ensure enterprise data is cleansed, validated, reconciled, and ready for mock conversions, cutover, and production deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end SAP data workstream and define the data strategy, roadmap, milestones, and delivery plan.
• Direct Brownfield ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration and data readiness activities.
• Establish validation frameworks for master data, transactional data, open items, balances, and historical data.
• Oversee source extraction, data profiling, cleansing, transformation, reconciliation, and post-conversion validation.
• Validate master data such as Business Partners, materials, G/L accounts, cost centers, profit centers, assets, vendors, and customers.
• Validate transactional data such as open purchase orders, sales orders, inventory, financial balances, open items, and asset values.
• Coordinate mock conversions, dress rehearsals, cutover planning, production migration, and post-go-live reconciliation.
• Define data quality standards, controls, ownership, stewardship, and issue-remediation processes.
• Manage data risks, dependencies, defects, decisions, and readiness milestones.
• Facilitate workshops with business process owners, functional leads, architects, developers, and data owners.
• Provide executive-level status reporting on data quality, validation results, conversion readiness, and key risks.
• Develop procedures, documentation, training materials, and knowledge-transfer plans for data governance and validation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8-10+ years of enterprise data management, migration, validation, or governance experience.
• 5-8+ years of SAP implementation or transformation experience.
• Experience leading SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Brownfield migration programs, minimum of 2-3 projects.
• Strong experience validating SAP master data and transactional data.
• Knowledge of data migration, reconciliation, data quality, governance, and cutover methodologies.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation, risk management, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP S/4HANA Brownfield conversion experience.
• Experience with SAP Migration Cockpit(LTMC & ATC), SAP Data Services, Information Steward, Data Transition Validation, or equivalent tools.
• Knowledge of master data management, data archiving, retention, and enterprise data governance.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, government, manufacturing, or other regulated industries.

Success Measures

• Data readiness and validation milestones are completed according to the program schedule.
• Successful execution of mock conversions, dress rehearsals, and production cutover.
• Accurate reconciliation of master data and transactional data between SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA.
• Reduced data defects, duplicates, conversion errors, and post-go-live reconciliation issues.
• Clear data ownership, governance controls, and positive stakeholder feedback.

Lead and execute end-to-end data migration from SAP ECC, EPICOR, NetSuite systems into SAP S/4HANA, ensuring high data quality, business continuity, and successful go live. Data extract already exists in a data lake and needs to be loaded into S/4.

Data Objects: Customer, Vendor and Material Master. Customer Master is the immediate focus. Golden record before migration so tie into existing orders, invoices etc. and salesforce integrations remain intact.

Core responsibility:

Hands on experience with Extract Transform Cleanse Load Validate Reconcile data across systems

Required Skills & Experience

Functional & Technical Skills

• Strong experience in:
• SAP ECC S/4HANA data migration
• Non-SAP ERP integration (EPICOR, NetSuite preferred)
• Expertise in:
• Data Migration lifecycle (ETL, mapping, validation)
• SAP S/4HANA data objects (BP, Finance, Materials, etc.)
• Hands-on with:
• SAP Data Services (BODS)
• Migration Cockpit (LTMC & ATC)
• SQL / ABAP (for extraction & transformation)

Data & Integration Skills

• Data profiling, cleansing, and governance
• Large-scale data handling (master + transactional data)
• Experience integrating:
• APIs
• Flat files
• Third-party systems

Preferred Experience

• Multi-ERP consolidation projects (ECC + EPICOR + NetSuite S/4)
• SAP S/4HANA implementation (Greenfield)
• Experience in Data Governance / MDG
• Vendor/Customer Business Partner conversion