SAP Data Management Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SAP data management strategy, governance, standards, and execution across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, and integrated enterprise systems.
• Own data migration planning and delivery, including data extraction, profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and load readiness.
• Define and enforce data quality rules, controls, issue management processes, and governance workflows across master data and transactional data objects.
• Partner with business process owners, functional teams, technical teams, and system integrators to confirm data scope, ownership, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Drive data readiness for mock loads, cutover cycles, user acceptance testing, go-live, and post-go-live stabilisation.
• Establish data migration and data governance documentation, including object inventories, mapping specifications, validation rules, reconciliation reports, and audit evidence.
• Monitor data risks, defects, dependencies, and remediation actions, ensuring timely escalation and resolution.
• Lead workshops with business and technology stakeholders to align data requirements with process, reporting, integration, and compliance needs.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and quality assurance for data analysts, migration consultants, functional SMEs, and offshore or nearshore delivery teams.
• Continuously improve data management practices by introducing reusable templates, automation opportunities, data quality dashboards, and best-practice standards.
• Good understanding of SAP archiving.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• Typically 15+ years of experience in SAP data management, SAP migration, SAP implementation, or enterprise data governance roles.
• Relevant SAP certifications, SAP S/4HANA experience, data governance certifications, or project management qualifications are advantageous.