* Role/Job title:SAP Archive Specialist- (OpenText ILM Consultant)
* Mode of working Leeds- 2-3 days onsite
* Type of Employment- Permanent
The Role:
We are looking for an experienced SAP Archive Specialist (OpenText ILM Consultant) to support a large scale SAP transformation programme. You will contribute to greenfield implementations, rollouts, enhancements, and steady state operations on SAP with RISE. Your role will be critical in configuring and optimising SAP Data & Document Archiving and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) across ECC, S/4HANA, and BW/4HANA landscapes. This includes enabling the technical setup required to support SIT, UAT, and performance testing prior to and following go live.
Key responsibilities:
* Own the design, implementation, and operational delivery of SAP Data & Document Archiving and ILM across SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and BW/4HANA environments.
* Integrate SAP with OpenText components (Archive Server/Center, Document Access) and/or SAP Content Server via ArchiveLink to ensure performant, compliant, and cost efficient storage.
* Collaborate with BASIS, Security, and Business Process teams to manage data growth, define retention strategies (GDPR/SOX/HIPAA), and enable seamless retrieval of business documents.
* Ensure system configurations and archiving strategies meet compliance, operational efficiency, and audit requirements.
* Support archiving readiness for SIT, UAT, performance testing, and go live cycles.
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
* Strong knowledge of SAP ADK (Archive Development Kit), SARA, SARI, and OpenText ArchiveLink.
* Deep knowledge of OpenText Archive Center, Document Access, and Extended ECM.
* Experience with SAP S/4HANA or SAP Business Suite, HANA Database, and Archive Server administration.
* Solid understanding of ArchiveLink architecture, Storage Categories, and foundational ABAP for analysing archiving objects.
* Ability to run production archiving/ILM jobs, monitor throughput, troubleshoot ArchiveLink RFC/HTTP issues, and perform system health checks.
* Strong collaboration skills, working closely with BASIS, Security, Business Process teams, vendors, and external partners.
* Knowledge of GDPR, SOX, HIPAA compliance requirements, including legal holds, defensible deletion, audit trails, and policy documentation.
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
* Hands on experience with SAP SARA configuration, ArchiveLink repositories, storage categories, and early/late archiving setups.
* Strong troubleshooting across RFC/HTTP Content Server, ArchiveLink queues, and high volume archiving runs.
* Familiarity with BW/4HANA NLS/NSE and S/4HANA specific archiving considerations.
* Experience with advanced ILM (residence/retention management, legal holds, legacy system decommissioning).
* Strong OpenText expertise, including Document Access, Enterprise Scan, Document Pipeline tuning, and high availability/DR setup for Archive Center.
* Experience with automation and scripting (Perl, Shell) and ABAP exits/BADIs for monitoring and automation.
* Exposure to DVM tooling and third party solutions (e.g., PBS, TJC) for analytics, purge/hybrid strategies.
* Experience supporting S/4HANA conversions, including archiving cutover plans and test cycles.
* Experience delivering SAP CQC services (especially CQC for Data Volume Management) and managing remediation plans.
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