100% Remote-Serrala Archiving Lead

Must Have Technical/Functional 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.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

- 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.