SAP S/4HANA Deployment Data Manager

Exp. Required: 10+ Year’s

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills    

•             10+ years of experience in SAP functional data, data migration, business analysis, conversion manage-ment, or deployment support.

•             Experience supporting SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA data conversion across multiple process areas.

•             Strong understanding of master data, transactional data, organizational structures, reference data, bal-ances, open transactions, and cross-functional dependencies.

•             Experience coordinating mock conversions, reconciliation, validation, remediation, reload, and business sign-off cycles.

•             Experience developing and managing detailed data conversion and cutover plans.

•             Ability to perform structured root-cause analysis across source data, mappings, transformation rules, in-tegrations, SAP configuration, and business processes.

•             Ability to coordinate business SMEs, data owners, functional teams, conversion developers, integration teams, testing teams, and deployment leadership.

•             Strong analytical, planning, documentation, coordination, issue-management, and stakeholder-management skills.

•             Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and data-analysis tools; SQL experience is preferred.

•             Willingness to provide concentrated onshore support during mock conversions, dress rehearsals, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.

Roles & Responsibilities 

•             Coordinate US deployment data activities for mock conversions, dress rehearsals, production cutover, go-live, and stabilization.

•             Maintain the integrated conversion schedule, data object inventory, validation calendar, data readiness plan, and ownership matrix.

•             Coordinate data activities across Lead-to-Cash, Integrated Supply Chain, and Record-to-Report teams.

•             Track conversion scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, defects, actions, and readiness sta-tus.

•             Coordinate business participation in pre-load and post-load validation, mock conversion cycles, reconcili-ation, and formal sign-off.

•             Support SIT, UAT, integration testing, and deployment-readiness testing affected by converted data.

•             Validate that critical end-to-end business processes operate successfully using converted data and rec-oncile source-to-target balances, counts, and business records.

•             Analyze conversion and validation results, perform structured root-cause analysis, and assess defects based on business, testing, accounting, reporting, operational, and cutover impact.

•             Coordinate remediation, reload, retesting, revalidation, sign-off, and closure; maintain the data defect log and communicate ownership, aging, and deployment risk.

•             Support business users and data owners with source- data preparation, cleansing, enrichment, data-quality action plans, and validation evidence.

•             Build and maintain the data conversion portion of the integrated cutover plan, including sequencing, de-pendencies, validation windows, load schedules, reconciliation, remediation, reload requirements, and sign-offs.

•             Coordinate data-related cutover tasks across functional, technical, conversion, integration, testing, and business teams.

•             Support cutover rehearsals, go/no-go preparation, production conversion execution, command-center re-porting, issue escalation, and decision tracking.

•             Support post-go-live data validation, stabilization, defect resolution, and transition to steady-state support.     

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Cross-functional leadership across business, functional, conversion, integration, testing, and technical teams.

• Strong planning, coordination, prioritization, and accountability without direct reporting authority.

• Structured problem solving, root-cause analysis, defect governance, risk management, and escalation.

• Clear stakeholder communication, executive status reporting, decision tracking, and governance facilitation.

• Ability to manage high-pressure mock conversion, cutover, go-live, command-center, and stabilization activities.

• Strong analytical, documentation, facilitation, negotiation, and continuous-improvement skills.