SAP Data Migration Lead

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 SuccessFactors 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 SuccessFactors 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 SuccessFactors 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 SuccessFactors 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:

1. SAP SuccessFactors Data loads
   
2. SAP Migration Cockpit
   
3. SAP Data Services (BODS)
   
4. SAP LSMW
   
5. SQL
   
6. ETL tools
   

• Experience migrating HR, Payroll, Organisation Management, Foundation Objects, Employee Master Data, and historical data.
  
• Strong 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 SuccessFactors 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