SAP Data Readiness and Governance Lead

Role Description

• Lead the end-to-end SAP data workstream and define the data strategy, roadmap, milestones, and delivery plan.
• Direct Brownfield ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration and data readiness activities.
• Establish validation frameworks for master data, transactional data, open items, balances, and historical data.
• Oversee source extraction, data profiling, cleansing, transformation, reconciliation, and post-conversion validation.
• Validate master data such as Business Partners, materials, G/L accounts, cost centers, profit centers, assets, vendors, and customers.
• Validate transactional data such as open purchase orders, sales orders, inventory, financial balances, open items, and asset values.
• Coordinate mock conversions, dress rehearsals, cutover planning, production migration, and post-go-live reconciliation.
• Define data quality standards, controls, ownership, stewardship, and issue-remediation processes.
• Manage data risks, dependencies, defects, decisions, and readiness milestones.
• Facilitate workshops with business process owners, functional leads, architects, developers, and data owners.
• Provide executive-level status reporting on data quality, validation results, conversion readiness, and key risks.
• Develop procedures, documentation, training materials, and knowledge-transfer plans for data governance and validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of enterprise data management, migration, validation, or governance experience.
• 5+ years of SAP implementation or transformation experience.
• Experience leading SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Brownfield migration programs.
• Strong experience validating SAP master data and transactional data.
• Knowledge of data migration, reconciliation, data quality, governance, and cutover methodologies.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation, risk management, and stakeholder-management skills.

Requirements

• SAP S/4HANA Brownfield conversion experience.
• Experience with SAP Migration Cockpit, SAP Data Services, Information Steward, Data Transition Validation, or equivalent tools.
• Knowledge of master data management, data archiving, retention, and enterprise data governance.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, government, manufacturing, or other regulated industries.

Success Measures

• Data readiness and validation milestones completed according to the program schedule.
• Successful execution of mock conversions, dress rehearsals, and production cutover.
• Accurate reconciliation of master data and transactional data between SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA.
• Reduced data defects, duplicates, conversion errors, and post-go-live reconciliation issues.
• Clear data ownership, governance controls, and positive stakeholder feedback.

Work Environment & Eligibility

• Remote to United States.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder.