Enterprise Architect - SAP S/4HANA Legacy Data Archiving - Contractor - Outside IR35
Role purpose:
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal, client-facing role in shaping and delivering a compliant archiving solution for legacy SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition) data. This role is critical both pre-award and post-award of the engagement.
Immediate requirement:
The successful candidate must be available to join an initial Microsoft Teams session on Thursday 8th at 2:30pm with our client to:
Provide expert input on the proposed archiving approach.
Validate the technical and compliance strategy.
Strengthen our proposal through credible architectural leadership.
Post-award responsibility:
Subject to the project being awarded, the Enterprise Architect will then:
Take overall architectural ownership of the delivery.
Lead the technical team through design and implementation.
Act as the primary architectural authority for the client throughout the engagement.
Key responsibilities:
Define the end-to-end archiving strategy for 3-4 years of legacy S/4HANA Cloud data.
Design a secure, read-only, audit-compliant archive architecture.
Lead the data extraction, validation, and reconciliation approach across Finance, Projects, Assets, and master data.
Establish role-based access models for historical data retrieval.
Ensure compliance with data retention, legal hold, and tamper-proofing requirements.
Provide architectural assurance for legacy system decommissioning readiness.
Required expertise:
Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition) data extraction and system retirement.
Strong background in enterprise and solution architecture for ERP and data lifecycle programmes.
Delivery experience with compliant archiving platforms (e.g. SAP ILM, OpenText, PBS, or equivalent).
Deep knowledge of financial and asset accounting structures and project data in SAP.
Ability to operate credibly with CIO, Finance, Audit, and Compliance stakeholders.
The Enterprise Architect will be instrumental in:
Helping us win the engagement through authoritative technical leadership.
Ensuring the client can retire SAP S/4HANA Cloud with no operational dependency.
Delivering a secure, low-cost, audit-ready archive solution.
Establishing a clean, compliant target architecture for the future.
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