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We are seeking to identify a team member to join the Data Management team in CoE Ireland. Qualified candidates should possess the required technical and application competencies with committed professionalism, desire and passion in managing critical customers. All candidates will need to demonstrate the required skills to collaborate within the team and across multiple focus areas within the portfolio and develop technical knowledge and embrace customer ownership. Previous work experience in SLO, S4HANA Transformation projects with custom development is highly desirable.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

The Center of Expertise (CoE) is the trusted advisor for value realization, protection of investment and acceleration of innovation and customer success. In the CoE we continue to prove the value of SAP Enterprise Support, SAP MaxAttention and Safeguarding. The goal and mission of (CoE) is to ensure optimal performance, availability and smooth operation of SAP software as well as to optimize technical and business processes by delivering engineering services to our installed customer base. In the CoE, we follow a global team model designed to ensure efficient, cross-regional consistency in employee development, quality of delivery, customer expectation and overall satisfaction. Our immense range of expertise results in world-class recommendations and is an immeasurable value for SAP Maintenance and/or SAP MaxAttention and Safeguarding. To meet the challenging requirements, you should be a quick learner with strong analytical skills. You should also be creative, open minded and possess the ability to communicate and convince others of the correct plan of action based on technical facts and details. It will be your responsibility to mentor and act as the lead driver in the most critical issues. Candidates will need to be able to communicate at an executive management level the technical action plans, project plans and solutions, resolutions for escalated issues and be able to multi-task and manage a constant workload with extended hours.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Experience in Data Migration and Data Conversion methodologies from non-SAP/SAP to SAP
• Experience in a similar role (must have proven consulting and client facing experience)
• Understand and implement different project/development life cycle Methodologies
• Creating or assisting in the creation of time and project plans, including planning of “Dress-rehearsals”, “Cutovers” and “Post Go-Live support”.
• Experience with Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance, and Data Migration approaches/concepts, Best Practices and Standards
• Detailed hands on knowledge of at least one the following SAP LT, MWB, LSMW, MC, TDMS, SLT, SWB, ETL Tools
• SAP ILM to decommission legacy SAP Systems and archive SAP Systems
• Any OpenText Archive Server and Extended ECM knowledge would be advantageous
• Extensive techno-functional experience in SAP ERP functions such as finance, logistics and HCM and BW.
• Experience in data analysis and reconciliation to prove the correctness and completeness of migration solutions.
• Experience in Business Analysis and troubleshooting and preparing technical documents and cookbooks
• Core understanding of the S/4HANA data model and S/4HANA conversions and development
• Knowledge and experience of SAP BASIS, Development & Debugging in ABAP and ABAPonHANA

Job Expectations and Tasks

• As a Senior DM/LT consultant in the team your main tasks will be:
• Scope and recommend design of migration solutions for customer landscapes in the On-Premise and Cloud scenarios.
• Ability to assist customer in designing Data management strategies for their SAP on premise and Cloud environment(s) and act in an advisory capacity.
• Analyse, plan, and implement migration solutions with close collaboration with industry-specific or technical consultants in the project.
• Design, Test, Execute, Document Data Migration and Landscape Transformations Projects End-to-End.
• Troubleshoot, analyse, and resolve Data related problems as part of customer projects, CoE service delivery and EoDs.
• Perform analysis of critical issues for the project(s)/product(s) and provide expertise towards resolution
• Perform high-level analysis of any new requirements/change requests to the solution from a techno-functional standpoint.
• Escalate issues well in advance and suggest alternative approaches
• Ability to handle one or more projects/services simultaneously.
• Guide and influence team members to accomplish the team’s technical and schedule goals
• Work closely with other custom development team members, SAP development teams, external partners and customer teams to ensure successful project/service engagement completion
• Have an appetite to acquire new knowledge, adapt to and contribute to fast innovating software business and emerging technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to impart ideas in technical, business and user-friendly language.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Required undergraduate university degree, preferably in information technologies or Computer Science and/or Business Administration (Finance, Accounting, Engineering)
• Certification in SAP DM solutions and other SAP solutions
• Expert in any of the SAP Application Modules: FI, MM, SD, CO, PP, HCM, BW
• The candidate must have minimum of 5 years of experience in Data Management and Landscape transformation solutions with at least 3 full cycle implementations in Migration/Transformation projects
• Must be open to travel internationally