Solutions Architect 4 - 3258

Value Added Solutions, Inc.; Los Alamos, Northern (NM, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Value Added Solutions, Inc. seeks a seasoned Solutions Architect for SAP data migration leadership on large-scale S/4HANA programs. You will advise on architecture, coordinate the client-side data workstream, and drive data cleansing, testing, and cutover activities with SI partners.

You will apply deep knowledge of SAP data models, ETL design, and regulatory controls to ensure a smooth go-live and sustained data quality across Finance, Operations, and Master Data domains.

Qualifications

• 15+ years leading enterprise SAP data migration workstreams.
• Experience in large-scale SAP data migrations within regulated industries.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Advise on migration architecture for greenfield S/4HANA projects from non‑SAP sources.
• Coordinate client-side data workstream across domains and with SI partners.
• Monitor data cleansing, quality metrics, and load reconciliation cycles.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and regulatory requirements.
• Lead governance, cutover planning, and hypercare data support.

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / Engineering

Tools

ETL tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT 4

RESPONSIBILITIES

Advisory & Oversight

Serve as the client-side senior authority on SAP data migration; face off to the System Integrator's data lead as a technical peer.

Review and challenge the SI's data migration approach and push back where the approach carries unnecessary risk, cost, or downstream operational burden.

Advise the program on migration architecture decisions specific to greenfield S/4HANA from non-SAP sources (Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, custom systems), including source-to-target data model translation and legacy-concept-to-SAP-concept mapping.

Advise on tooling selection when the SI's approach is still open and evaluate trade-offs on fit, cost, timeline, and regulated-industry auditability.

Hands-on Coordination & Delivery

Own day-to-day execution coordination of the client-side data workstream across all domains.

Keep the migration task plan current, flag slippage early, and drive resolution.

Serve as the daily point of contact with the SI's data migration team; track integrator deliverables and elevate delays.

Run regular working sessions with client data owners and the integrator's team; chase open actions, decisions, and deliverables between meetings.

Data Cleansing & Quality

Set and monitor cleansing standards across data domains against agreed quality thresholds; validate that the SI's quality criteria are fit for S/4HANA go-live.

Coordinate with business data owners to keep cleansing on schedule; unblock issues with the right people rather than deferring upward.

Surface data quality risks the SI may not flag (missing legacy concepts, silent data loss in transformation, dependencies across domains) before they become critical.

Load Cycles & Reconciliation

Organize and track mock load cycles across all domains.

Review reconciliation results independently of the SI.

Ensure business teams complete validation tasks within cycle windows and that findings are actioned.

Governance, Compliance & Cutover

Ensure data migration activities comply with the organization's data classification policy and applicable regulatory requirements throughout extraction, staging, transformation, and load.

Maintain the data migration cutover plan; coordinate extraction and load scheduling with the SI and technical teams.

Prepare data readiness inputs for go/no-go decisions and provide informed, independent risk assessment to program leadership.

Support hypercare on data-related issues post go-live.

Reporting & Communication

Support migration status reporting and RAID logging for program leadership.

Required

15+ years leading enterprise SAP data migration workstreams, with at least 4 full-lifecycle S/4HANA programs delivered end-to-end (greenfield preferred).

Experience running the data workstream from inside a major System Integrator on programs of significant scale and complexity, followed by client-side advisory work.

Deep hands-on experience migrating from non-SAP sources into SAP.

Full-scope enterprise migration experience spanning Finance (FI/CO), Supply Chain (MM, SD, PP, WM), HR/HCM, Plant Maintenance / EAM, and Master Data (business partner, material, customer, vendor).

Working expertise across multiple migration toolsets.

Demonstrated focus on delivery quality.

Comfortable engaging SI leadership as a peer: knows when to elevate, when to accept an SI's judgment, and when to hold position; can distinguish genuine constraints from convenient ones.

Hands-on advisor: runs working sessions, chases actions, maintains plans day-to-day, and retains senior-level judgment throughout.

Deep understanding of S/4HANA data models, business partner concept, universal journal, material ledger, and the structural changes from legacy ERPs.

Strong grounding in data migration methodology: ETL design, staging strategies, reconciliation, cutover sequencing, fallback planning, and hypercare data support.

Regulated-industry experience with hands‑on exposure to at least one of HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI‑DSS, GDPR, FedRAMP, or comparable frameworks. Demonstrated ability to translate compliance requirements into data migration controls.

Excellent written and verbal communication; can move fluidly from executive readouts to deep technical review with the SI's data engineers.

Nice to Have

Prior experience specifically with Oracle EBS as the source system.

Familiarity with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and its role in S/4HANA data landscapes.

Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, or similar platforms as staging or reconciliation environments for large-scale migrations.

SAP certifications (S/4HANA, Data Migration, or comparable).

Experience in regulated environments beyond baseline compliance — audit-heavy sectors such as financial services, healthcare, life sciences, pharma, or government.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the person assigned to this position. Principal duties and responsibilities are intended to describe the overall purpose of this job.

This job description does not state or imply that the above are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. Employees holding this position will be required to perform job-related duties as requested by management. All requirements are subject to modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with a disability.

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VAS Human Resources @ 803-644-0070
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237 High Gate Loop
Aiken, SC 29803

Value Added Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and supports a drug-free work environment.