SAP Archiving

SAP Archiving & Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Manager

The role

As an SAP Archiving & ILM Manager, you will lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale SAP data archiving and Information Lifecycle Management solutions.
This is a specialist, hands-on leadership role combining deep SAP Archiving/ILM expertise with solution architecture, regulatory data-management knowledge, client advisory and team leadership.
You will work within the SAP Digital Content Services (DCS) team and help clients manage the lifecycle of their SAP data while balancing regulatory retention requirements, system performance, data privacy and infrastructure costs.
You will work across complex SAP S/4HANA and ECC landscapes and may integrate SAP ILM with technologies such as JiVS, OpenText InfoArchive, SAP Content Server and other external/cloud storage solutions.

What you will do

Lead SAP Archiving & ILM solution design

You will:

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  Lead the design and implementation of enterprise SAP Data Archiving and ILM strategies.
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  Assess clients' SAP data volumes, business requirements and regulatory obligations to determine appropriate archiving and retention approaches.
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  Design archiving strategies for both transactional and master data across modules such as FI, CO, MM, SD and HR.
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  Configure and oversee SAPILM capabilities, including:
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    Retention Management
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    Residence Rules
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    Legal Hold
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    Data deletion/destruction
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  Implement or integrate alternative archiving and ILM technologies where appropriate.
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  Design integration between SAP and external archive, content-management, storage and cloud platforms.

Data retention, privacy and compliance

You will:

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  Translate defined GDPR, data privacy and regulatory retention requirements into SAP ILM solutions.
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  Define and implement technical retention rules and data-deletion workflows.
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  Implement legal-hold capabilities that prevent relevant data from being deleted when required.
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  Design audit trails and evidence supporting compliant retention and deletion processes.
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  Work closely with Security, Compliance, Legal and business stakeholders when translating policies into technical solutions.

You are not expected to act as legal counsel; you are expected to understand regulatory data-retention concepts and implement the appropriate technical controls in SAP.

System performance and data-volume management

You will:

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  Analyse SAP database growth and data-volume patterns.
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  Identify SAP tables and business objects that are appropriate candidates for archiving.
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  Recommend archiving strategies that improve system performance and control database growth.
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  Support SAP HANA and traditional database environments.
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  Monitor archiving jobs and processes.
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  Diagnose bottlenecks, failures and performance issues.
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  Continuously improve archiving operations and processes.

Integration and technical delivery

You will:

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  Implement SAP Archiving and ILM solutions across SAP S/4HANA and ECC environments.
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  Support SAP Business Suite on HANA and hybrid/cloud landscapes where applicable.
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  Work with SAP Basis, Security, functional teams and external platform specialists.
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  Ensure archiving and retention solutions operate correctly across relevant business processes and SAP modules.
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  Develop and execute functional, technical and compliance-focused test scenarios.
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  Support implementation, cutover and operational handover.

Team and client leadership

You will:

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  Lead SAP Archiving/ILM workstreams and take ownership of their successful delivery.
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  Lead client workshops covering archiving strategy, retention requirements and solution design.
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  Advise IT, business, security and compliance stakeholders on SAP Archiving and ILM.
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  Coordinate with Business Process Owners and technical teams.
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  Review the quality of project deliverables.
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  Create and review solution designs, configuration documentation and operational runbooks.
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  Deliver training and knowledge-transfer sessions to client teams.
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  Lead, coach and mentor junior consultants.

What we are looking for

Essential experience and skills

You should have:

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  At least 7 years of professional experience working in SAP environments.
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  At least 3 years specifically focused on SAP Data Archiving and Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).
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  Proven experience delivering end-to-end SAP ILM imp