Serrala Archiving Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual incentive

Comprehensive medical coverage

401K plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in the United States is seeking a senior SAP archiving specialist to lead the Serrala archiving initiatives within the SAP S/4HANA transformation program. You will drive the design, deployment, and governance of information lifecycle management across ECC and S/4HANA environments.

The role requires hands-on experience with Serrala, ADK, AIS, and OpenText, plus collaboration with Finance, Security, Legal, and Compliance teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Serrala archiving in SAP S/4HANA
• Strong SAP archiving objects knowledge
• Experience with OpenText or SAP Content Server
• Knowledge of ILM, retention rules, data destruction
• Data volume management and archiving job scheduling
• Experience with S/4HANA conversion or transformation
• Ability to lead onsite design and deployment
• Coordinate with multiple business functions
• Lead cutover and hypercare activities

Responsibilities

• Lead onsite design, implementation, and deployment of Serrala archiving 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, dependencies, and compliance constraints.
• Configure archiving objects, variants, retention periods, write/delete/store sequences, 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 preserve reporting, audit, and compliance requirements.
• Manage onsite/offshore delivery, risks, issues, and stakeholder communication.
• Provide cutover and hypercare leadership; monitor archive jobs and system performance.

Skills

SAP archiving

S/4HANA archiving

Data lifecycle mgmt

Stakeholder management

Onsite leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Tools

Serrala archiving

OpenText

SAP Content Server

Archive Development Kit (ADK)

Archive Information System (AIS)

Job description

Job Description

• SAP data archiving, document archiving, information lifecycle management.
• Hands-on implementation and solution design experience with Serrala archiving solutions 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, database growth analysis, archiving job scheduling, dependency sequencing, and performance optimization.
• Experience defining retention policies and meeting legal, audit, SOX, privacy, and records-management requirements.
• Knowledge of S/4HANA conversion or transformation scenarios, including legacy data disposition, archived-data access, testing, reconciliation, cutover, and hypercare.
• Ability to collaborate with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Order-to-Cash, Basis, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Legal, and Compliance teams.
• Lead the 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.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• SAP data archiving, document archiving, information lifecycle management.
• Hands-on implementation and solution design experience with Serrala archiving solutions 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, database growth analysis, archiving job scheduling, dependency sequencing, and performance optimization.
• Experience defining retention policies and meeting legal, audit, SOX, privacy, and records-management requirements.
• Knowledge of S/4HANA conversion or transformation scenarios, including legacy data disposition, archived-data access, testing, reconciliation, cutover, and hypercare.
• Ability to collaborate with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Order-to-Cash, Basis, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Legal, and Compliance teams.
• Lead the 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.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead the 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.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Strong onsite leadership, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to manage distributed teams, vendors, competing priorities, risks, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Structured problem solving, decision making, documentation discipline, and ownership through deployment and stabilization.

Salary Range : $130,000 to $160,000 Per Annum

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: Co mmuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Qualifications:

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE