Solution Architect 7+ years of experience

Responsibilities:

• The Solution Architect will be responsible for the application and data migration of legacy systems (including older versions of SAP) and the transition approach within the project.
• Definition and implementation of the strategy and solution to support the migration of legacy data into the SAP Application.
• Identification and qualification of source data to satisfy master and transactional data requirements for the SAP Application.
• Lead data assessment and mapping activities, and architect the underlying migration framework to extract, transform, validate, enrich and load the legacy source data.
• Execute technical leadership on the use of the technology platform and tools to perform the profiling and migration of legacy data.
• Planning and managing the efforts of technical developers
• Setting up a concept for migration (data and application) and the transition approach in regards to time, costs and risk
• Transition planning regarding technical and organizational aspects and coordination with stakeholders
• Setting up a data staging environment for data cleansing activities
• Leads the Data Management Workstream
• Creates Data Strategy, Data Cleansing, Data Migration/Conversion Strategy and Data Volume Management Strategy and all data plans.
• Working with the SI, Leads, and internal staff, defines the data migration strategy & data migration tools.
• Works with SI to develop ETL transformation/enrichment programs and schemas.
• Outlines data cleansing according to business logic in datasets provided by data extraction expert.
• Responsible for data migration verification and testing.
• Data Extraction – works with Leads and internal staff to extract data from legacy systems in the format provided by the SI.
• Ensures tools and processes developed by SI are implemented and maintained.
• Develops Data Volume strategy with SI (configures archiving objects, deletion jobs)
• Works with Business Data Owners (Data Custodians) to define dataset structure and its data usage in alignment with requirements from all business area functions.
• Master Data Management:
• Creates Master Data change processes and tools with business.
• Ensures Master Data Management satisfies business strategy.
• Provides support to data management improvement initiatives.
• Creates and enforces Master Data Management policies and procedures.
• Provides requirements to Master data governance strategy/plan.
• Defines policies and tools to be used for master data management processes.
• Accepts responsibility for master data operations from project team.
• Defines security standards and measures for data security

Requirements

Skill Requirements/Qualifications:

The Resource
must
have the following minimum qualifications or experience:

• Bachelor's degree or Master degree in Computer Science, information technology, or related field;
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience working in data migration projects in technically complex enterprise environments;
• Minimum 5+ years experience working in a Solution Architect role;
• Expert knowledge of Data Architecture and techniques, data management, data integration and data quality platforms and tools;
• Expert knowledge in at least one enterprise ETL tool;
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into simple non-technical terms for various audiences;
• Ability to adapt to change in dynamically evolving situations;
• Ability to work in a team environment;
• Ability to lead a team of data analysts from various business areas;
• Experience with communicating and presenting to senior executive management;
• Minimum 5+ years experience developing and implementing standards, principles, guidelines, strategies and roadmaps for Master Data Management (MDM);
• Excellent customer service skills

Desired Experience and Skills:

• Experience with establishing a data migration strategy related to SAP S4/HANA migration