Senior SAP OTC Functional Lead S/4HANA Migration
SAP S/4HANA OTC Functional Data Lead
Order to Cash/Make to Cash
100% Remote India
Job Duration: 12 Months
Project Context: Client is undergoing global transformation projects requiring SAP ECC SAP S/4HANA migration. This is a greenfield S/4HANA implementation across multiple business processes (RTR, PTD, PLM, STP, OTC).
Role Purpose: Act as the bridge between business process owners, SAP functional teams, and the data enablement organization. Ensure data is standardized, governed, fit-for-purpose, and supports successful process design, system build, migration, and adoption.
Key Responsibilities
1. Data Enablement & Solution Design
- Define data requirements aligned to standardized value stream processes.
- Translate business process designs into master and transactional data definitions for S/4HANA.
- Support template design ensuring consistent data models and hierarchies across regions.
- Validate data readiness for end-to-end process execution (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return).
2. Functional Process Data Ownership
- Define data objects, attributes, and mandatory fields.
- Support business rules, validations, and derivations.
- Align data structures to SAP best practices and industry standards.
3. Data Migration & Readiness
- Support data cleansing, enrichment, and harmonization activities.
- Define and validate data mapping from legacy systems to S/4HANA.
- Participate in mock conversions, data loads, and reconciliation.
- Ensure data quality thresholds are met before cutover.
4. Data Governance & Standards
- Help establish/enforce global data standards and policies.
- Collaborate with Master Data and Data Governance teams.
- Define roles, ownership, and stewardship for value stream data.
- Contribute to data quality monitoring and remediation processes.
5. Testing, Cutover & Hypercare
- Support functional and integrated testing with a focus on data accuracy.
- Validate business scenarios using migrated/created data.
- Support cutover planning/execution from a data perspective.
- Provide post-go-live support and stabilization.
Required Qualifications
Experience:
- 10+ years SAP functional experience with strong data focus.
- Hands-on SAP S/4HANA experience (greenfield preferred).
- Large-scale, global ERP implementation experience.
- Deep understanding of value stream business processes and related data objects.
- Experience in data migration, cleansing, and validation.
Technical Skills:
- Knowledge of SAP master data objects (Material, Vendor/Business Partner, BOM, Routings, Pricing, Customer, etc.).
- Understanding of S/4HANA data model changes vs. ECC.
- Experience with SAP MDG or similar governance tools preferred.
- Familiarity with data migration tools (SAP Migration Cockpit, LVM, ETL tools).
- Ability to read and interpret functional specs and data models.
Soft Skills:
- Strong stakeholder management and communication.
- Comfortable with global, cross-functional teams.
- Detail-oriented, analytical, problem-solving.
- Able to work in fast-paced transformation environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in manufacturing, building materials, or asset-intensive industries.
- Prior Functional Data Lead or Data Domain Lead role.
- Experience defining global templates and harmonized data models.
- Knowledge of data quality tools and metrics.
Additional Notes
- This system is highly customized; ramp-up will take time.
- Strong SAP knowledge is critical-must understand fields and their usage.
- Knowledge of master data is less critical; focus is on OTC/A/R data, pricing, customers, and pricing tables.
- Must have recent SAP experience .