Data Archiving Architect

Role Overview

SAP Data Archiving Consultant is responsible for designing, implementing, and governing SAP data and document archiving solutions across Fashion, Retail, Wholesale, and eCommerce business processes.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of overall experience with 6+ years in SAP Data Archiving / SAP ILM


• Experience in SAP IS-Retail, AFS, or S/4HANA


• At least 3 SAP S/4HANA transformation projects


• Experience with OpenText, Doxis, PBS, or similar archive repositories is preferred

Key Responsibilities

1. Archiving Strategy

• Define enterprise archiving strategy for fashion business applications.


• Develop retention policies based on legal and business requirements.


• Identify archiving opportunities across transactional and master data.

2. Assessment & Analysis

• Conduct SAP data volume assessments.


• Analyze database growth trends.


• Identify archiving objects and data-aging candidates.


• Estimate storage reduction and performance improvements.

3. Solution Design

• Design SAP ILM and data archiving solutions.


• Configure archive objects and retention policies.


• Define archive repository architecture.


• Ensure audit and compliance requirements are met.

4. Implementation Activities

• Execute write, store, delete, and retrieval processes.


• Configure SAP Archive Information System (AIS).


• Implement SAP ILM retention management.


• Perform archive object customization.


• Monitor and optimize archiving jobs.