S/4HANA Archiving Lead: SAP Data & Compliance Champion

Ventures Unlimited Inc; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ventures Unlimited Inc. seeks an experienced archiving lead to design, implement, and deploy Serrala archiving for SAP S/4HANA transformations across ECC and S/4HANA environments.

You will steward retention policies, ensure secure access to archived data, and coordinate with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Compliance to meet regulatory requirements. The role emphasizes onsite leadership and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on implementation and design experience with Serrala archiving 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, archiving job scheduling, dependency sequencing, and performance optimization.
• Experience defining retention policies and meeting legal, audit, SOX, privacy, and records-management requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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.

Job description

Ventures Unlimited Inc. seeks an experienced archiving lead to design, implement, and deploy Serrala archiving for SAP S/4HANA transformations across ECC and S/4HANA environments.

You will steward retention policies, ensure secure access to archived data, and coordinate with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Compliance to meet regulatory requirements. The role emphasizes onsite leadership and cross-team collaboration.