SAP Data Archival ILM

Data Archiving Architect : Minimum 12 to 15 years of experience

Job description : Responsible for leading end to end application data archiving initiatives working closing with the clients and internal stake holders to define design and document archiving requirements across multiple applications. This role serves as the primary functional and technical authority on data archiving Lifecyle practices ensuring compliance with data retention policies security standards and end user access needs.

SME will lead structured client workshops to capture archiving requirements translating business legal and technical needs into clear actionable documentation to support archiving.

Key responsibilities :

Lead and facilitate client workshops to elicit and document detailed application archiving requirements across business legal and IT stakeholders.

Access application landscapes to determine appropriate archiving approaches

Serve as the primary point of contact for archiving related discussions decisions and clarifications throughout the engagement lifecycle

Data Archiving Lifecycle expertise :

Define and document the full data archiving lifecycle uincluding:

Data identification and eligibility

Retention and deletion policies

Archiving execution and validation

Ensure alignment with regulatory compliance and audit requirements including long term data retention and retrievability

Identify the archiving objects based on Top-Size tables

Customized the application settings Object Specific & Basis Customization for the archiving objects

Creation of Design and Build documents and user guides

Produce high quality client facing documentation including:

Archiving requirements specifications

Data retention and access models

Application archiving assessments and recommendations

Ensure documentation is clear complete and suitable for technical implementation teams and client review

Senior Archiving consultant : Minimum of 8 years of SAP Archiving implementation experience :

Strong knowledge in SAP Classical archiving solution and SAP ILM solution for SAP ECC system

Understand business processes and map or identify the archiving objects ILM policies and retention times

Scheduling archiving jobs and monitoring job logs prepare archiving statistics

Experience in implementation of attachments archiving

End to end exposure of implementation experience in archiving project good communication and interpersonal skills

Strong knowledge in different archive server and archive link

Strong knowledge in different retrieval methods