Job DescriptionJob title: SAP ILM Lead
nWorkplace type: In office
nJob location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (or Bangalore, India)
nRole Summary:
nWe are seeking an experienced SAP ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) / ILP Archiving Senior SME to lead data lifecycle, retention, and compliance strategies in large-scale SAP transformation, migration, and decommissioning programs.
nThis role focuses on designing and implementing policy-driven archiving, retention, legal hold, and data destruction mechanisms, ensuring strict compliance with regulatory, audit, and data privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR). The candidate will play a critical role in data governance, system decommissioning, and audit readiness, working across business, legal, compliance, and technical teams.
nKey Responsibilities:
n• SAP ILM Strategy & Implementation: Design and implement SAP ILM policies for data retention, legal hold, data residence, and destruction. Define and configure ILM objects, rules, policies, and retention warehouses.
n• Archiving & Compliance-Driven Data Lifecycle:



Extend traditional archiving (SARA) with ILM-enabled archiving. Configure and manage ILM Retention Policies and Residence vs Retention periods. Ensure compliance with GDPR, data privacy laws, and audit requirements.
n• Legal Hold & Data Protection: Implement and manage legal hold scenarios to prevent deletion of sensitive or litigated data. Support legal and compliance teams in data discovery and retention override controls.
n• Retention Warehouse & Data Destruction: Configure and manage SAP ILM Retention Warehouse. Execute controlled and auditable data destruction processes; validate data retention completion and audit logs.
n• System Decommissioning & Data Governance: Enable ILM-based selective data retention for decommissioning scenarios. Ensure legacy systems can be safely retired and support carve-outs or divestitures.
n• Audit, Compliance & Governance: Provide audit-ready documentation and traceability

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