Associate Principal - System Management

Role description

We are looking for an experienced SAP Archiving Consultant with 12-16 years of handson experience in SAP Data Archiving Information Lifecycle Management Data Volume Management and archiving strategy design

The consultant will be responsible for assessing data growth identifying archiving opportunities designing archiving solutions implementing standard and custom archiving objects and supporting business and technical teams through endtoend archiving project delivery

Key Responsibilities

Lead SAP data archiving assessments by analyzing database growth top tables business data retention needs and archiving feasibility

Design and implement SAP standard archiving objects across functional areas such as FI CO SD MM PP PM QM HR and Basisrelated objects

Perform tabletoarchiving object mapping using SAP tools such as DB15 TAANA DB02 SARA SARI AOBJ and related transactions

Define archiving strategy retention rules residence periods writedeleteread programs storage approach and retrieval requirements

Configure and execute SAP archiving cycles including preprocessing write delete storage postprocessing and reporting activities

Work with business stakeholders to validate archived data access audit requirements legal retention needs and compliance expectations

Support custom archiving object design for Z tables using AOBJ ADK framework custom writedelete programs and technical specifications

Coordinate with BASIS infrastructure functional security and storage teams for smooth archiving implementation and operations

Prepare archiving project deliverables such as assessment reports strategy documents technical design documents test plans cutover plans SOPs and status reports

Provide production support for archiving jobs performance issues failed sessions incomplete delete runs archive file handling and retrievalrelated issues