SAP Data Migration Specialist (ECC6)

SAP Data Migration Specialist (ECC6)
9 months initially
Newport, Wales
£74 per hour Inside IR35 / Umbrella

Due to the urgent nature of the role candidates must have current SC security clearance.

Role Overview
A leading European Defence business is seeking an experienced data migration specialist to support the migration of a recent UK acquisition to their ECC6 SAP system

The role will focus on data preparation, cleansing, conversion, loading and reconciliation from a non- SAP system to SAP ECC6 through iterative migration cycles, ensuring business readiness for deployment and supporting a successful go-live.

Responsibilities
Data preparation and cleansing
- Produce and maintain key documentation including data migration plans, mapping specifications and runbooks
- Support business teams with data cleansing of non-SAP data
- Prepare templates for master and transactional data

Data extraction and transformation
- Maintain source to target mapping documentation and transformation rules
- Support data transformation activities

Data migration
- Develop migration test scripts i.e. using LSMW
- Execute migration test loads and troubleshoot failures and defects
- Execute dress rehearsals and perform reconciliations to ensure data quality

Cut-over and Go-live support
- Contribute to cut over and go-live planning
- Support production data migration activities
- Provide post go-live support hypercare

Skill Set
Essential
- Hands on experience of performing data migrations from non-SAP systems to SAP ECC6
- Experience of developing data migration load programs (e.g. LSMW)
- Strong understanding of SAP data objects
- Experience of data conversion, mapping and transformation
- Experience of resolving data load defects and failures
- Ability to work collaboratively with functional consultants and business stakeholders
- Strong problem solving and organisational skills
- The role requires candidates to hold UK SC security clearance

Desirable
- SAP ECC6 functional knowledge of finance and/or logistics