100% Remote-Serrala Archiving Lead
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
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• SAP data archiving, document archiving, information lifecycle management.
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• Hands-on implementation and solution design experience with Serrala archiving solutions in SAP S/4HANA landscape.
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• Strong knowledge of SAP archiving objects, Archive Development Kit (ADK), Archive Information System (AIS), SAP ILM, retention rules, and data destruction controls.
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• Experience integrating Serrala with SAP content repositories, OpenText, SAP Content Server, or equivalent enterprise content management platforms.
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• Understanding of data volume management, database growth analysis, archiving job scheduling, dependency sequencing, and performance optimization.
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• Experience defining retention policies and meeting legal, audit, SOX, privacy, and records-management requirements.
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• Knowledge of S/4HANA conversion or transformation scenarios, including legacy data disposition, archived-data access, testing, reconciliation, cutover, and hypercare.
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• Ability to collaborate with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Order-to-Cash, Basis, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Legal, and Compliance teams.
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Roles & Responsibilities
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• Lead the onsite design, implementation, and deployment of Serrala archiving capabilities for the SAP S/4HANA transformation program.
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• Develop the enterprise archiving strategy, roadmap, governance model, retention schedule, and operating procedures across ECC and S/4HANA environments.
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• Conduct discovery and design workshops; identify data growth drivers, applicable archiving objects, business dependencies, retrieval requirements, and compliance constraints.
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• Configure and validate archiving objects, variants, residence/retention periods, write/delete/store sequences, background jobs, indexes, and archived-data access.
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• Coordinate integration with content repositories and ensure secure, reliable storage and retrieval of archived documents and business data.
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• Partner with functional and technical teams to assess process impacts and preserve reporting, audit, legal-hold, and business-access requirements.
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• Manage onsite/offshore delivery, dependencies, risks, issues, status reporting, stakeholder communication, and vendor coordination.
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• Provide cutover and hypercare leadership; monitor archive jobs, database reduction, system performance, retrieval success, and operational compliance.
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• Ensure knowledge transfer to support teams and establish sustainable monitoring, controls, and continuous-improvement practices.
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Generic Managerial Skills, If any
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• Strong onsite leadership, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive communication skills.
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• Ability to manage distributed teams, vendors, competing priorities, risks, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
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• Structured problem solving, decision making, documentation discipline, and ownership through deployment and stabilization.