SAP Data Manager and Cutover Lead

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a managing consultant you will provides leadership to the members of the cutover team while working with the other technical managers and senior management.
Responsibilities are:

• Leadership to the cutover team
• Estimating Change requests for Change Control Board review & approval
• Working with program analyst and business management team on Integrated Master Schedule
• Developing and reviewing variance report
• Participating in compliance audits and other related activities and supporting other teams (fielding implementation and sustainment).

May drive Data Migration effort from Peoplesoft to S/4HANA for financial supply and manufacturing data. Should have a complete understanding of Data Migration in SAP and extensive hands-on experience in SAP data migration tools.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
• Plans and leads major technology assignments.
• Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success. Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments. (May supervise others)
• Experience planning and managing at least two (2) or three (3) complex ERP Cutovers involving multiple applications business processes.

This is a primarily remote role; however monthly travel to Kansas City MO will be required for team meetings project collaboration or other in-person engagements.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in at least 3 End-End SAP Implementation Projects.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with SAP Data handling.
• ETL design and implementation involving extraction and provisioning of data from a variety of legacy systems.
• 5+ years of strong expertise in Data Migration including extraction transformation cleansing and loading (ETL) from Legacy systems to S4 HANA
• Expertise to handle data provisioning and error handling from various sources
• Ten (10) or more years of ERP Project Management experience in large organizations. Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments. Plans and leads major technology assignments. Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success. Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments. May supervise others. Experience planning and managing at least two (2) or three (3) complex ERP Cutovers involving multiple applications business processes.

This is a primarily remote role; however monthly travel to Kansas City MO will be required for team meetings project collaboration or other in-person engagements.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong Communication and Organization skills
• Knowledge of and experience with DoE