SAP Integration and Data Migration Lead

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Your Role and Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, and solution design for SAP S/4HANA Integrations across various systems.
• Perform integration architecture assessments and recommend scalable, secure, and reusable solutions.
• Collaborate with functional consultants, enterprise architects, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to gather integration requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize integration performance and interface stability.
• Conduct code reviews, peer mentoring, and technical governance activities.
• Prepare technical design documents, deployment guides, and operational runbooks.
• Author functional specifications, design documents, test scripts, and cutover/data migration plans.
• Deep expertise in design and implement robust Integration frameworks for S/4 HANA enterprise landscape.
• Identify opportunities to automate Integration processes and improve operational efficiency.
• Lead technical workstream in SAP S/4HANA implementations, rollouts, and transformation programs
• Experience in full lifecycle SAP implementations (design → deployment → support)
• Conduct and facilitate workshops, fit-gap assessment, data standardization discussions, and governance strategy to gather and analyse business requirements for integration track.
• Translate requirements into functional design and configuration specifications.
• Collaborate with FICO, SD, MM, PP, QM, EWM and cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end integration
• Lead end-to-end integration implementations across SAP and third-party applications with SAP S/4HANA, EWM, SuccessFactors, Ariba and Legacy systems.
• Collaborate with technical (ABAP) teams for RICEFW enhancements, interfaces, and integrations
• Design and review functional specifications for RICEF objects.
• Support data migration, testing cycles (SIT/UAT), cutover and post go-live activities.

Technical Responsibilities

• Support DevOps and CI/CD practices for integration deployments.
• Stay abreast of emerging SAP BTP and integration technologies and contribute to innovation initiatives.
• Experience in Middleware Optimization with integration patterns and Enterprise Integration Architecture.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and asynchronous messaging concepts.
• Good understanding in web standards such as http/SOAP/Webservices/json/XML
• Implement security standards including, OAuth 2.0, JWT, SAML, Certificates and Principal propagation
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support integrations using SAP Integration Suite components including: Cloud Integration (CPI), API Management - API Strategy & Governance, Open Connectors, Event Mesh, Integration Advisor, AI-assisted integration automation and Hybrid cloud integration landscapes
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP Integration Suite and Proven expertise in: SAP BTP, IDoc/ALE integrations, REST/SOAP Services, OData services, XML, XSLT, JSON, Groovy scripting, RFC, Proxy, and SFTP integrations, iFlows and EDI/B2B interfaces
• Develop APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and middleware integrations to support intelligent enterprise automation initiatives

Required Professional and Technical Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• SAP certifications in SAP Integration Suite, BTP and CPI is preferred.
• Over 8 years of SAP experience, including at least 5 years with S/4HANA.
• Completed a minimum of 2 end-to-end implementation projects (lasting at least 4 years in total), with at least 1 of them being S/4HANA projects.
• More than 5 years of team lead experience and managed and led at least 3 team members.
• Exposure to industry domains such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, logistics, or public sector is advantageous.
• Has worked on projects involving at least 20 company codes and/or plants.