Job Title: Serrala Archiving Lead
Location: Charlotte, NC
Full Time
Job Description
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.