Job Description

SAP Data Migration Lead
Location: Pune, India
Position Type: Full-time

Experience Level: 10+ Years

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced SAP Data Migration Lead to lead the data migration workstream for a large-scale SAP Success Factors transformation programme. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining the migration strategy, managing end-to-end migration activities, ensuring data quality, and delivering successful migration from legacy HR and payroll systems into SAP Success Factors and SAP S/4HANA.

The role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and extensive experience in SAP data migration methodologies, reconciliation, testing, and cutover planning.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the end-to-end SAP Data Migration workstream.
- Facilitate workshops on Data migration requirements and align with client data requirements.
- Define and implement the Data Migration Strategy, Data Quality Strategy, and Migration Approach.
- Analyse legacy HR and Payroll data and map it to SAP Success Factors target objects.
- Define migration objects, transformation rules, validation criteria, and reconciliation processes.
- Manage data profiling, cleansing, enrichment, validation, and reconciliation activities.
- Coordinate business users for data collection, validation, and sign-off. Coordinate with integration teams to validate migrated data across downstream and upstream systems.
- Plan and execute mock migrations, dress rehearsals, production migration, and cutover.
- Maintain migration governance,



data load ownership, approval processes, audit trails and sign-off processes.
- Support SIT, UAT, Payroll Parallel Runs, cutover planning, Go-Live, and Hypercare.
- Support and align with SAP Success Factors releases and update with needed migration tools and deliver data migration.
- Produce migration documentation, runbooks, post load reconciliation reports, and knowledge transfer materials.
- Work closely with Functional Consultants, Integration Teams, Technical Teams, and Business SMEs.

Required Skills & Experience

- 10+ years of SAP Data Migration experience.

Strong experience with:

- SAP Success Factors Data loads
- SAP Migration Cockpit
- SAP Data Services (BODS)
- SAP LSMW
- SQL
- ETL tools
- Experience migrating HR, Payroll, Organisation Management, Foundation Objects, Employee Master Data, and historical data.
- Robust knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, and Cutover Planning.
- Experience in Data validation and reconciliation techniques, Audit and Compliance controls. Familiar with GDPR and Data privacy regulations
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Experience:

- Previous experience delivering SAP Success Factors migration or implementation programmes is highly preferred.
- Experience with SAP Employee Central, Employee Central Payroll, and SAP S/4HANA migration projects.
- Experience working in Agile and SAP Activate delivery environments.

Preferred Certifications:

- SAP Data Services Certification
- SAP Activate Certification

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