Sr. SAP Data Archive Analyst

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Position Summary:

The 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, Archive Link, DaRT, SAP ILM, and Open Text document management to enhance archiving processes across SAP environments, including ECC and S / 4

HANA.

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.

• 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, applying 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 / 4
  
  HANA, 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.
• Participate in SAP ILM initiatives.
• Configure and utilize Open Text Archive Server capabilities to efficiently manage SAP document attachments.

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, Archive Link, DaRT, SAP ILM, and the management of archived data across multiple SAP modules.

Minimum of 7+ years of experience in SAP with at least 3 years of ABAP development experience and 4+ 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.

ABAP experience for developing and enhancing archiving objects, as well as creating custom utilities related to archiving processes.

Experience in configuring Open Text document management activities.

Demonstrates knowledge of ABAP development and SAP Data Archiving activities.

Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

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.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

The noise level in the work environment is generally quiet.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the…