SAP S4HANA Data Migration – Migration Manager

Roles & Responsibilities :

Lead and coordinate end-to-end data migration activities from project preparation through go-live and stabilization.

• Collaborate with business teams, project managers, and stakeholders across Europe and North America.
• Drive the migration strategy, including migration concepts, object dependencies, and cutover planning.
• Provide process overviews and support migration planning activities.
• Offer technical migration guidance and solutions to the technical migration team based in India.
• Design, develop, and implement technical migration objects.
• Work closely with IT experts, functional consultants, and process owners to gather and validate migration requirements.
• Collaborate with the Central Migration Manager to support migration planning, execution, and governance.
• Coordinate with technical and cross-functional teams during development, unit testing, and migration validation.
• Prepare and manage migration plans and cutover activities across all project phases.
• Track migration progress, prepare status reports, and provide regular updates to project management.
• Take full ownership of technical migration deliverables, ensuring quality and timely completion.
• Serve as the single point of contact (SPOC) for all technical data migration activities within the project.

Educational qualification

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering

Experience :

10+ years of experience in SAP Data Migration with minimum 2 projects in S4HANA rollouts as Migration Manager

Mandatory/requires Skills :

Strong experience in data migration management, including planning, tracking, reporting, migration consulting, and cutover planning.

• Hands-on experience with SAP BODS and SAP Migration Cockpit, with at least three end-to-end migration projects.
• Good understanding of SAP business processes to gather migration requirements and define migration rules while working with cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of business objects, data dependencies, and technical migration activities, with expertise in SAP Migration Cockpit and SAP BODS (mandatory) and exposure to Syniti (preferred).
• Proficient in business analysis, business process understanding, and technical solution design.
• Proven experience in customer-facing roles with strong client management skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with experience collaborating across cross-functional and interface teams.
• Demonstrated leadership and collaboration skills to drive distributed migration teams across multiple locations.
• Knowledge of additional data migration tools is an added advantage.

Preferred Skills

BODS + Migration cockpit

Strong problem-solving, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to mentor team members and drive migration best practices across projects.