SAP Data Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Texas; On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Comprehensive Medical Coverage:Medical

Family Support: Maternal & Parental Le

Insurance Options: Auto & Home

Commuter Benefits

Certification & Training Reimbursement

401K Plan

Performance Bonus

College Fund

Student Loan Refinancing

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services seeks an experienced SAP Data Lead to manage end-to-end data migration and data-quality workstreams for a large SAP transformation program involving SAP S/4HANA and SAP GTS E4H. You will define the migration strategy, governance, object scope, mapping, cleansing, load cycles, and post-load validation.

You will coordinate across functional, technical, business, and global delivery teams to establish data governance, ownership, and decision-making processes, and to lead

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of SAP consulting or enterprise data experience.
• Minimum 6 years of SAP data migration experience.
• Experience leading at least two full-life-cycle SAP data migration programs.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA master and transactional data.
• Experience managing large data volumes across multiple source systems and countries.
• Strong knowledge of data profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, loading, and reconciliation.
• Experience leading business data owners and technical migration teams.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, analytical, and communication skills.
• Experience working in global onsite-offshore delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall SAP data migration strategy and delivery roadmap.
• Establish data governance, ownership, accountability, and decision-making processes.
• Define data migration scope, object inventory, source systems, and target systems.
• Develop standards for data extraction, profiling, cleansing, transformation, loading, and validation.
• Define data-quality rules, acceptance criteria, and reconciliation controls.
• Establish a data migration calendar aligned with testing and deployment milestones.
• Lead data governance and data-readiness meetings.
• Lead data governance and data-readiness meetings.
• Coordinate with functional leads, integration leads, testing leads, and business teams.

Skills

SAP Data Migration

LTMC and LTMOM

BAPIs and IDocs

Extract, Transform, and Load

Data Governance and Quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or related field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

SAP Cloud ALM

Solution Manager

Job description

We are seeking an experienced SAP Data Lead to manage the end-to‑end data migration and data‑quality workstream for a large SAP transformation program involving SAP S/4HANA and SAP GTS E4H.

The Data Lead will define the data migration strategy, governance model, object scope, mapping approach, cleansing process, load cycles, reconciliation framework, cutover plan, and post-load validation activities.

The role requires strong experience with SAP master and transactional data, SAP data migration tools, data‑quality management, business reconciliation, and coordination across functional, technical, business, and global delivery teams.

• Define the overall SAP data migration strategy and delivery roadmap.
• Establish data governance, ownership, accountability, and decision‑making processes.
• Define data migration scope, object inventory, source systems, and target systems.
• Develop standards for data extraction, profiling, cleansing, transformation, loading, and validation.
• Define data‑quality rules, acceptance criteria, and reconciliation controls.
• Establish a data migration calendar aligned with testing and deployment milestones.
• Lead data governance and data‑readiness meetings.

Data Assessment and Profiling

• Assess source‑system data structures, volumes, dependencies, and quality.
• Coordinate data profiling and identify completeness, accuracy, consistency, and duplication issues.
• Document data‑quality findings and remediation requirements.
• Work with business data owners to define cleansing and enrichment activities.
• Track data‑quality issues through closure.
• Identify risks related to historical data, open transactions, and master‑data dependencies.

Data Mapping and Transformation

• Lead source‑to‑target mapping across SAP S/4HANA and SAP GTS E4H.
• Ensure mapping documents include transformation rules, default values, validations, and business ownership.
• Coordinate mapping reviews with functional consultants and business stakeholders.
• Manage mapping changes and maintain version control.
• Ensure functional requirements are correctly translated into migration rules.
• Confirm dependencies between master data, transactional data, and configuration.

SAP Data Migration Execution

• Plan and manage extraction, transformation, and load activities.
• Lead mock loads, dress rehearsals, production loads, and post-load validation.
• Coordinate with technical teams using SAP Migration Coc kpit, staging tables, LTMC, LTMOM, BAPIs, IDocs, SAP Data Services, or approved migration tools.
• Monitor load performance, errors, rejects, and reprocessing.
• Ensure migration activities are repeatable, controlled, and auditable.
• Define the detailed data cutover plan, including extraction freeze, cleansing, loading, validation, and sign‑off.
• Estimate data‑load duration and identify critical‑path activities.
• Lead mock cutover and production cutover data activities.
• Coordinate business validation during the cutover window.
• Support hypercare and resolve post‑go‑live data issues.
• Lead transition of data‑governance responsibilities to steady‑state teams.

Team and Stakeholder Management

• Lead SAP data analysts, migration developers, functional data owners, and offshore teams.
• Coordinate with SAP functional leads, integration leads, testing leads, and business teams.
• Communicate data‑readiness status, risks, issues, and decisions to program leadership.
• Manage data‑related dependencies across SAP and non‑SAP systems.
• Facilitate timely business decisions on data scope, retention, and remediation.

Generic Managerial Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of SAP consulting or enterprise data experience.
• Minimum 6 years of SAP data migration experience.
• Experience leading at least two full‑life‑cycle SAP data migration programs.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA master and transactional data.
• Experience managing large data volumes across multiple source systems and countries.
• Strong knowledge of data profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, loading, and reconciliation.
• Experience leading business data owners and technical migration teams.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, analytical, and communication skills.
• Experience working in global onsite‑offshore delivery models.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP GTS or SAP GTS E4H data migration experience.
• Experience with SAP Migration Cockpit, LTMC, LTMOM, BAPIs, IDocs, SAP Data Services, or similar migration tools.
• Experience with SAP Master Data Governance.
• Knowledge of SAP Activate and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience with data archiving, retention, governance, and security requirements.
• Experience in manufacturing, technology, supply‑chain, or global trade environments.
• Familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, SAP Cloud ALM, or Solution Manager.

Key Skills

• SAP Data Migration
• LTMC and LTMOM
• BAPIs and IDocs
• Extract, Transform, and Load
• Data Governance and Quality

TCS Employee Benefits Summary

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.