Data Migration Specialist

Belcan; Newport; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job description

A leading European Defence business is seeking an experienced data migration specialist to support the migration of a recent UK acquisition to their ECC6 SAP system

The role will focus on data preparation, cleansing, conversion, loading and reconciliation from a non- SAP system to SAP ECC6 through iterative migration cycles, ensuring business readiness for deployment and supporting a successful go-live.

Location: Newport. Gwent

Contract: 6 Months, inside IR35

Working pattern: 35 hours per week over 4,5 days. Full time onsite.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain key documentation including data migration plans, mapping specifications and runbooks.
• Support business teams with data cleansing of non-SAP data.
• Prepare templates for master and transactional data.
• Maintain source to target mapping documentation and transformation rules.
• Develop migration test scripts i.e. using LSMW.
• Execute migration test loads and troubleshoot failures and defects.
• Execute dress rehearsals and perform reconciliations to ensure data quality.
• Contribute to cut over and go-live planning.

Skill Set

• Hands on experience of performing data migrations from non-SAP systems to SAP ECC6.
• Experience of developing data migration load programs (e.g. LSMW).
• Strong understanding of SAP data objects.
• Experience of data conversion, mapping and transformation.
• Experience of resolving data load defects and failures.
• Ability to work collaboratively with functional consultants and business stakeholders.
• Strong problem solving and organisational skills.
• The role requires candidates to hold UK SC security clearance.