Data Migration Lead - SAP S/4 HANA Transformation

Summary: The Data Migration Lead for SAP S/4 HANA Transformation is responsible for overseeing the governance and execution of data migration activities from ECC to S/4HANA. This role ensures data quality, business ownership, and robust controls throughout the migration process, while collaborating with the System Integrator on technical aspects. The position is contract-based, outside IR35, and requires a strong background in data migration leadership within large ERP programs. The role is hybrid, based in London, with a competitive daily rate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for making sure that all agreed data in scope is migrated, including master data and transactional data (eg open items, balances, in-flight transactions), and that data is properly cleansed, mapped, validated and signed off by the relevant business owners.
• Build and maintain the data migration plan and calendar across all phases.
• Coordinate with SI data migration team on design, build and execution of migration.
• Define and drive a data ownership model: identify data owners and stewards for each domain (eg Finance, Tax, Treasury, O2C, P2P, Payments).

Key Skills:

• Proven experience in data migration leadership on large ERP programmes, including at least one SAP S/4HANA transformation.
• Proven track record of governing data migration where a System Integrator executed the technical work, with clear business ownership and sign-off.
• Strong understanding of finance and revenue data (GL, CO, AP/AR, assets, tax, treasury, FI-CA/BRIM, payments) and end-to-end data flows.
• Hands-on experience with data migration tooling and approaches (eg SAP Migration Cockpit, BODS/ETL, LSMW, extract/transform/load frameworks).

Salary (Rate): £750/DAY

City: London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Data Migration Lead - SAP S/4 HANA Transformation

Contract | Outside IR35 | Hybrid London - £700 - £750 per day

Our client, a leading multinational organisation in London, is looking for a Data Migration Lead who will be accountable for the end-to-end governance and execution oversight of all data migration activities required to move from ECC to S/4HANA on RISE. While the System Integrator (SI) will execute most of the technical migration mechanics, this role ensures there is robust governance, controls, business ownership and data quality across all migration cycles.

Accountabilities

• Be responsible for making sure that all agreed data in scope is migrated, including master data and transactional data (eg open items, balances, in-flight transactions), and that data is properly cleansed, mapped, validated and signed off by the relevant business owners.
• Build and maintain the data migration plan and calendar across all phases
• Build and maintain the data migration plan and calendar across all phases
• Coordinate with SI data migration team on design, build and execution of migration
• Define and drive a data ownership model: identify data owners and stewards for each domain (eg Finance, Tax, Treasury, O2C, P2P, Payments).

Must-have:

• Proven experience in data migration leadership on large ERP programmes, including at least one SAP S/4HANA transformation.
• Proven track record of governing data migration where a System Integrator executed the technical work, with clear business ownership and sign-off.
• Strong understanding of finance and revenue data (GL, CO, AP/AR, assets, tax, treasury, FI-CA/BRIM, payments) and end-to-end data flows.
• Hands-on experience with data migration tooling and approaches (eg SAP Migration Cockpit, BODS/ETL, LSMW, extract/transform/load frameworks).