SAP ILM Consultant

XPT Software Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia is seeking a senior SAP ILM Archiving Specialist to lead and deliver archival projects across ECC, S/4, CRM, SRM and HR environments in Sydney. You will design retention policies, implement ILM rules, coordinate with functional teams, and drive degradation-free migration efforts with a focus on data retrieval and governance.

The role requires hands-on ILM deployment experience, strong analytical skills, and proven leadership in complex SAP data archiving initiatives within

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in SAP Archiving/ILM implementations.
• Experience in deployment or support projects for SAP ILM.
• Strong understanding of ILM retention management and archival strategies.
• Experience across ECC, S/4, CRM, SRM & HR systems.
• Ability to lead technical project tracks and coordinate with stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Team coordination

Tools

SAP ILM

OpenText archive

AWS S3 ILM store

Azure Blob ILM store

SQL optimization

S/4 HANA environment

Job description

Must have minimum 8 -15+ years of relevant experience with good analytical skill having experience in SAP Archiving/ILM Implementation, Deployment or Support projects.

Database

Advanced SQL optimization for SAP HANA

Nice To Have Skills

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical debugging skills.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written English skills.

Leadership

Proven experience leading technical project tracks

Requirements

• SAP ILM retention management experience
• SAP ILM system decommissioning experience
• Experience in achieving implementation in various environments like ECC, S/4, CRM, SRM & HR etc. systems.
• Experience in PTP, OTC, FICO etc. cycle archiving of the transaction data and all other modules. Understanding the business flow of the same.
• Archiving in ECC system as part of system migration or conversion.
• Should pose Techno-functional archiving skills.
• Handling business and experience on requirements gathering process.
• Experience in the reporting tool for the effective retrieval of archived data.
• Expert in handling unstructured data solutions.
• Hands on experience on archiving testing process.
• Experience and involvement in deployment and cutover activities.
• Handling team and coordination with functional and client stakeholders.
• Creation of Rules & Policies through ILM and Defining the Archiving strategy along with the execution and monitoring of the Archival jobs.
• Knowledge in the ILM scenario like ILM Snapshot, Conversion, GDPR implementation, Retention Management & Retention Warehouse.
• Knowledge in the Audit area for the custom specific requirement.
• Knowledge in the Handling of Policies in ILM for the object specific requirement like Company Code, Sales Organization & Plant level.
• Knowledge in the Blocking and the retrieval of the archived data through PBS & AIS.
• Experience of handling PBS add-on, PBS server and PBS configuration
• Experience of working with AWS S3 or Azure Blob ILM store
• Knowledge on working with content/archive servers like OpenText, IBM, KGS etc will be good to have skill.
• Experience of archiving assessments and solutions including third party solutions in the market
• ILM system decommissioning experience
• Structured and unstructured data archiving experience e.g. DMS, archive link and GOS attachments