SAP S4E Data Migration Manager

Location: Lincoln, United Kingdom

Contract Type: Six-Month Rolling Contract

Start Date: 30 November 2026

Work Style: Hybrid (2 to 3 Days On Site, 37.5 Hours Weekly, International Travel Required)

IR35 Determination: To be confirmed after assessment by Hiring Manager

Lead the successful end-to-end delivery of data migration for the assigned SAP S4E rollout cluster within a major international transformation programme. Ensure that business data is cleansed, enriched, reduced, migrated, and validated accurately from SAP ECC6 into the target SAP S/4

HANA environment. Create clear ownership, readiness, and delivery alignment across local business teams, Data Stewards, Master Data Governance, and the central Data Migration Factory.

• Own the integrated data migration plan, scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and status for the assigned rollout cluster.
• Define and maintain the data object scope, ownership, source systems, migration strategy, and delivery approach for the cluster.
• Coordinate data cleansing, closure, enrichment, extraction, transformation, loading, testing, and business validation activities.
• Work closely with local finance and business leads, Data Stewards, cross-functional governance teams, and the central Data Migration Factory.
• Maintain data quality and operational continuity by resolving migration defects, readiness gaps, and delivery risks promptly.
• Provide transparent reporting and complete migration evidence that meets programme, compliance, and audit requirements.

• Develop and maintain a detailed project plan covering every data migration activity for the rollout cluster.
• Assess existing local data to determine migration scope, quality, dependencies, ownership, and readiness requirements.
• Agree data object scope, source systems, and accountabilities with Master Data Governance, the Data Migration Factory, and local Data Stewards.
• Oversee cluster-level data cleansing, closure, reduction, and enrichment to ensure data is accurate, complete, and migration-ready.
• Validate migration tooling and infrastructure and finalise the agreed migration strategy and data object migration documentation.
• Lead data extraction, transformation, and loading activities into the target SAP S/4
  
  HANA environment.
• Monitor migration execution continuously against the plan and agreed data-quality standards.
• Identify and resolve data, tooling, and process issues while minimising disruption to local business operations.
• Drive reconciliation, testing, and business validation to confirm the accuracy and completeness of migrated data before go-live.
• Maintain comprehensive migration documentation and collaborate with international sites and teams across Europe and North America.

• Accountable for the successful execution of data migration within the assigned rollout cluster.
• Responsible for establishing data object scope, ownership, source systems, and the cluster migration strategy and approach.
• Authorised to coordinate migration priorities, sequencing, corrective actions, and readiness activities within agreed programme governance.
• Escalate material data-quality issues, resource constraints, delivery dependencies, and risks to migration readiness, go-live, or business continuity.

• Proven experience leading SAP data migration work streams within large, complex implementation or transformation programmes.
• Essential experience migrating data from SAP ECC6 to SAP S/4
  
  HANA, ideally within an SAP S4E or comparable global-template rollout.
• Strong practical knowledge of SAP data cleansing, closure, reduction, enrichment, migration, reconciliation, and validation.
• Experience developing detailed migration plans and managing scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, readiness, and go-live activities.
• Sound understanding of extraction, transformation, and loading processes, migration tooling, test cycles, and data-quality controls.
• Experience defining data object scope, ownership, source systems, and migration strategies with governance and business stakeholders.
• Proven ability to coordinate Master Data Governance functions, Data Migration Factory teams, local Data Stewards, and business leads.
• Track record of delivering projects within large organisations and working effectively across multinational and multicultural teams.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and reporting skills, with the ability to connect central programme requirements to local business…