Pay Rate Range: $ 60.60 - 83.33/hr.
Role: Serrala Archiving Lead
Job Description:Must Have Skills:
• SAP data archiving, document archiving, information lifecycle management.
• Hands-on implementation and solution design experience with Serrala archiving solutions in SAP S/4HANA landscape.
• Strong knowledge of SAP archiving objects, Archive Development Kit (ADK), Archive Information System (AIS), SAP ILM, retention rules, and data destruction controls.
• Experience integrating Serrala with SAP content repositories, OpenText, SAP Content Server, or equivalent enterprise content management platforms.
• Understanding of data volume management, database growth analysis, archiving job scheduling, dependency sequencing, and performance optimization.
• Experience defining retention policies and meeting legal, audit, SOX, privacy, and records-management requirements.
• Knowledge of S/4HANA conversion or transformation scenarios, including legacy data disposition, archived-data access, testing, reconciliation, cutover, and hypercare.
• Ability to collaborate with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Order-to-Cash, Basis, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Legal, and Compliance teams.
Roles & Responsibilities
• Lead the onsite design, implementation, and deployment of Serrala archiving capabilities for the SAP S/4HANA transformation program.
• Develop the enterprise archiving strategy, roadmap, governance model, retention schedule, and operating procedures across ECC and S/4HANA environments.
• Conduct discovery and design workshops; identify data growth drivers, applicable archiving objects, business dependencies, retrieval requirements, and compliance constraints.
• Configure and validate archiving objects, variants, residence/retention periods, write/delete/store sequences, background jobs, indexes, and archived-data access.
• Coordinate integration with content repositories and ensure secure, reliable storage and retrieval of archived documents and business data.
• Partner with functional and technical teams to assess process impacts and preserve reporting, audit, legal-hold, and business-access requirements.
• Manage onsite/offshore delivery, dependencies, risks, issues, status reporting, stakeholder communication, and vendor coordination.
• Provide cutover and hypercare leadership; monitor archive jobs, database reduction, system performance, retrieval success, and operational compliance.
• Ensure knowledge transfer to support teams and establish sustainable monitoring, controls, and continuous-improvement practices.
Managerial Skills:
• Strong onsite leadership, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to manage distributed teams, vendors, competing priorities, risks, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Structured problem solving, decision making, documentation discipline, and ownership through deployment and stabilization.
Pre-Screening Questionnaire
1. Describe your hands-on Serrala archiving implementation experience in SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA, including your role, scope, and key deliverables.
2. How have you identified, configured, and sequenced SAP archiving objects using ADK, AIS, and/or SAP ILM while managing dependencies and archived-data access?
3. Explain your experience integrating Serrala with OpenText, SAP Content Server, ArchiveLink, or another content repository. How did you validate secure storage and retrieval?
4. How would you define an archiving and retention strategy for a phased S/4HANA transformation involving compliance, legal hold, reporting, reconciliation, and data-volume reduction?
5. Provide an example of leading archiving testing, reconciliation, cutover, and hypercare. What issues arose, and how did you drive resolution and business sign-off?
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| SkillCategoryTest1_MN | SAP | Yes | 1 | >7 years | |
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