Intelligent Automation Governance Lead – SAP S/4HANA

Role: Intelligent Automation Governance Lead – SAP S/4HANA
Duration: 12 months
Location: Sacramento, CA

Job Summary
The Intelligent Automation Governance Lead – SAP S/4HANA will lead the assessment, governance, redesign, and remediation of Finance automation solutions as the organization transitions from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA.
This person will ensure existing production automations continue to operate with minimal business disruption throughout the S/4HANA migration. The role requires a strong combination of UiPath RPA expertise, SAP S/4HANA migration knowledge, intelligent/agentic AI capabilities, and enterprise automation governance.
The ideal candidate will have experience managing large-scale automation portfolios and understanding how changes to SAP T-Codes, BAPIs, Fiori applications, interfaces, APIs, and data models impact existing automations.
 
Key Responsibilities

• Lead automation continuity efforts throughout the SAP S/4HANA migration.
• Assess the Finance automation portfolio and determine whether each automation should be retained, redesigned, retired, or replaced.
• Identify and remediate high-impact automations based on business criticality and migration risk.
• Partner with SAP S/4HANA project teams, SAP IT teams, and Finance AI & Automation teams to maintain the automation redesign and re-delivery roadmap.
• Ensure automation remediation activities remain aligned with the overall S/4HANA implementation and migration timeline.
• Develop and maintain a reference architecture for S/4HANA-compatible automations, including reusable patterns, standards, and design guidelines.
• Establish and enforce release governance and change-control processes for production automation releases.
• Maintain automation portfolio trackers, readiness dashboards, remediation status, and risk reporting.
• Perform impact analysis for changes involving SAP T-Codes, BAPIs, Fiori apps, interfaces, integrations, and data models.
• Define release management, versioning, environment governance, and change-control standards across Dev, Test, and Production.
• Coordinate automation remediation activities through S/4HANA design, cutover, and hypercare phases.
• Advise Finance leadership on automation continuity risks, governance, and S/4HANA readiness.
• Lead governance boards, design reviews, and readiness checkpoints with cross-functional stakeholders.

 
Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Intelligent Automation, RPA delivery, platform governance, or enterprise automation lifecycle management.
• 5+ years of hands-on UiPath experience, including architecture and governance.
• Proven experience assessing and remediating large automation portfolios during major ERP or technology migrations.
• Hands-on experience with an SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of how ECC-to-S/4HANA changes impact automation, including:
  • T-Codes
  • BAPIs
  • Fiori applications
  • Tables and data models
  • Interfaces
  • Integrations
• Strong understanding of Finance processes, including:
  • Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
  • Record-to-Report (R2R)
  • Order-to-Cash (O2C)
  • Shared Services
• Experience creating and managing release governance and change-control frameworks.
• Previous experience as a Solution Architect, Automation Lead, Senior Engineer, or Principal Engineer in an enterprise-scale automation environment.
• Experience working with distributed development teams and global stakeholders across multiple time zones.

 
Must-Have Technical Skills
UiPath / Intelligent Automation

• Strong hands-on experience with:
  • UiPath Studio
  • UiPath Orchestrator
  • Enterprise RPA architecture
• Strong experience with UiPath Agentic AI capabilities, including:
  • UiPath Maestro
  • Action Center
  • Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)
  • UiPath AI Center
  • Intelligent Xtraction Platform (IXP)
  • Integration Services
  • UiPath Conversational Agents
• Ability to design and review UiPath libraries, reusable components, and enterprise automation frameworks.

SAP S/4HANA & Integration

• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA and automation continuity.
• Experience with SAP Joule and SAP Business AI and their relationship with UiPath agentic automation.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Fiori and understanding of how Fiori changes affect automation.
• Strong knowledge of:
  • BAPIs
  • RFC-enabled Function Modules
  • IDocs
  • OData
  • REST APIs
• Familiarity with SAP:
  • T-Codes
  • SAP GUI transactions
  • Backend tables
• Ability to identify and map ECC processes and automation dependencies to their S/4HANA equivalents.

Automation Governance & Cloud

• Experience with:
  • Release management
  • Version control
  • Dev/Test/Prod environment governance
  • CI/CD for automation deployments
  • Automation monitoring
  • Exception handling
  • Production support governance
• Experience with automation agent lifecycle management across Dev, Test, and Production environments.
• Experience with cross-tenant automation migration and governance.

APIs, Data & Integrations

• Strong experience with API-based integrations.
• Experience working with:
  • SharePoint Lists
  • Microsoft Graph APIs
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • Structured and unstructured data sources

 
Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with UiPath Apps.
• Experience with UiPath Data Fabric.
• Knowledge of Healing Agents.
• Experience with Screenplay.
• Experience with UiPath Autopilot.
• Exposure to UiPath Bring-Your-Own-Model (BYOM).
• Experience with SAP Joule and SAP Business AI.
• Additional experience with RPA portfolio migrations and automation redesign during S/4HANA programs.

 
Leadership & Communication

• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work with technical teams and Finance business users.
• Experience leading governance boards, design reviews, and readiness checkpoints.
• Ability to communicate automation migration risks and business impacts to executive stakeholders.
• Strong ownership of end-to-end automation continuity.
• Consulting mindset with the ability to balance speed, risk, governance, scalability, and business value.
• Ability and willingness to adopt emerging AI, agentic AI, cloud, and automation technologies.