Serrala Archiving Lead

Location: Charlotte, NC 
Work Arrangement: Remote 
Duration: 12 Months
Employment Type: Contract
Pay Rate: $75.86 – $81.48/hr

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Serrala Archiving Lead to lead the design, implementation, and deployment of enterprise archiving capabilities within an SAP S/4HANA transformation environment.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Serrala archiving solutions, SAP data archiving, SAP ILM, ADK, AIS, content repositories, retention management, and data-volume optimization.

This role will collaborate with functional, technical, business, compliance, legal, security, and infrastructure teams to develop and implement an enterprise-wide archiving strategy.

Primary Skills

• Serrala Archiving

• SAP Data Archiving

• SAP S/4HANA

• SAP ECC

• SAP Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)

• Archive Development Kit (ADK)

• Archive Information System (AIS)

• SAP Archiving Objects

• Retention Rules and Policies

• Data Destruction Controls

• Content Repository Integration

• OpenText

• SAP Content Server

• ArchiveLink

• Data Volume Management

• Database Growth Analysis

• Archiving Job Scheduling

• Dependency Sequencing

• Performance Optimization

Secondary Skills

• S/4HANA Conversion / Transformation

• Legacy Data Disposition

• Archived-Data Access

• Data Reconciliation

• Legal Hold

• SOX Compliance

• Privacy Requirements

• Records Management

• Cutover Management

• Hypercare

• SAP Basis

• Security

• Infrastructure

• Vendor Management

• Stakeholder Management

• Workshop Facilitation

• Onsite/Offshore Delivery Management

• Continuous Improvement

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of Serrala archiving capabilities for an SAP S/4HANA transformation program.

• Develop the enterprise archiving strategy, roadmap, governance model, retention schedule, and operating procedures across ECC and S/4HANA environments.

• Conduct discovery and solution-design workshops.

• Identify data-growth drivers, applicable archiving objects, business dependencies, retrieval requirements, and compliance constraints.

• Configure and validate archiving objects, variants, residence/retention periods, write/delete/store sequences, background jobs, indexes, and archived-data access.

• Coordinate integration with content repositories and ensure secure and reliable storage and retrieval of archived documents and business data.

• Partner with functional and technical teams to assess process impacts.

• Ensure reporting, audit, legal-hold, reconciliation, and business-access requirements are preserved.

• Manage onsite/offshore delivery, dependencies, risks, issues, status reporting, stakeholder communication, and vendor coordination.

• Provide leadership during cutover and hypercare.

• Monitor archive jobs, database reduction, system performance, retrieval success, and operational compliance.

• Establish sustainable monitoring and control processes.

• Provide knowledge transfer to support teams.

• Drive continuous improvement of enterprise archiving processes and controls.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with SAP data archiving, document archiving, and information lifecycle management.

• Hands-on implementation and solution-design experience with Serrala archiving solutions in SAP S/4HANA.

• Strong knowledge of SAP archiving objects, ADK, AIS, SAP ILM, retention rules, and data destruction controls.

• Experience integrating Serrala with SAP Content Server, OpenText, ArchiveLink, or equivalent enterprise content management platforms.

• Experience with data-volume management, database growth