Senior SAP Data Archive Analyst

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Job Details
The Senior SAP Data Archive Analyst plays a crucial role in optimizing system performance and ensuring compliance with data retention policies through the implementation of SAP data archiving projects. This position requires collaboration with business and global compliance teams to manage ECC data archiving, decommissioning, and destruction activities. The analyst will leverage their expertise in SAP frameworks, ArchiveLink, DaRT, SAP ILM, and OpenText document management to enhance archiving processes across SAP environments, including ECC and S/4HANA.
Candidates should possess hands-on experience in configuring retention and audit policies, participating in multiple end-to-end SAP archival implementations, and applying knowledge of data destruction methods. ABAP skills are essential for developing and enhancing archiving objects and creating custom utilities. This role involves analyzing database growth, planning archiving strategies, scheduling archiving jobs, and supporting auditing requirements, all while engaging in SAP ILM initiatives to further streamline document management processes.
Job Description
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to execute SAP data archiving projects that improve system performance and ensure compliance with data retention policies.
• Lead the activities of ECC data archiving, decommissioning, and destruction, working closely with business and global compliance teams to enforce data retention policies.
• Understand business processes to identify and map required archive objects.
• Conduct database growth analysis and develop archiving strategies, apply techno-functional expertise on data-dependent tables across various SAP modules.
• Design, build, test, and implement archiving objects within SAP environments, including ECC and S/4HANA, adhering to RIM policies.
• Create and test custom archiving objects, supporting auditing needs through various methods of data retrieval from archives.
• Schedule and monitor archiving jobs, maintaining job logs and preparing archiving statistics.
• Lead the SAP ILM initiatives.
• Configure and utilize OpenText Archive Server capabilities to efficiently manage SAP document attachments.

Experience & Educational Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience.
The ideal candidate should possess practical expertise in the SAP Data Archiving framework, ArchiveLink, DaRT, SAP ILM, and the management of archived data across multiple SAP modules.

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in SAP with at least 4 years of ABAP development experience and 3 years of hands-on SAP data archiving implementation work.
• Participation in at least three complete SAP archival implementations, serving as an SME for SAP archiving activities.
• Ability to configure retention and audit policies in compliance with legal requirements across different countries using the SAP ILM system.
• Proven experience in configuring retention and audit policies.
• Knowledge and experience in data destruction methods.
• Extensive ABAP experience for developing and enhancing archiving objects, as well as creating custom utilities related to archiving processes.
• Experience in configuring OpenText document management activities.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge and Ability Requirements:

• Demonstrated commanding ABAP development and SAP Data Archiving activities.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively both orally and in writing, facilitating effective collaboration and decision-making across teams and stakeholders.
• Strong Mathematical and Analytical skills.
• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail.
• Solid understanding of business requirements and ability to prepare architectural specifications from which applications will be designed.
• Ability to assign and monitor application design and ensure compliance with architectural standards.
• Good conceptual and problem-solving skills to evaluate business problems and apply applications knowledge to identify appropriate solutions.
• Good interpersonal skills; effective team player.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Requires a BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent; normally requires a minimum of seven (7) years directly related and progressively responsible experience in leading architecture design and implementation. Experience working with SAP required.
MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to foster innovation and "out of the box" thinking while ensuring practical applications
• Demonstarted knowledge of SAP
• Ability to direct the formulation, definition and documenting of system architecture and objectives for assigned projects
• Solid understanding of business requirements and ability to prepare architectural specifications from which applications will be designed
• Ability to assign and monitor application design and ensure compliancy with architectural standards
• Leadership experience for matrixed projects.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Good organizational skills
• Good analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills to evaluate business problems and apply applications knowledge to identify appropriate solutions
• Good interpersonal skills; effective team player

What Cencora offers
Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
Full time
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Affiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
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