SAP Data Migration Specialist
Listed on 2026-10-09
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IT/Tech
Data Engineering, Data Analyst
Certain Advantage are hiring for an SAP Data Migration Specialist based in Newport.
This role is on an initial 6-month contract and is required to be onsite 3 days a week.
For this role, you will need to be eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Check (SC) clearance and meet the standard UK nationality and residency requirements for site access.
Role OverviewA leading Defence business is seeking an experienced data migration specialist to support the migration of a recent UK acquisition to their ECC6 SAP system.
The role will focus on data preparation, cleansing, conversion, loading and reconciliation from a non- SAP system to SAP ECC6 through iterative migration cycles, ensuring business readiness for deployment and supporting a successful go-live.
Your responsibilities will include- Data preparation and cleansing
- Produce and maintain key documentation including data migration plans, mapping specifications and runbooks
- Support business teams with data cleansing of non-SAP data
- Prepare templates for master and transactional data
- Data extraction and transformation
- Data migration
- Develop migration test scripts i.e. using LSMW
- Execute migration test loads and troubleshoot failures and defects
- Execute dress rehearsals and perform reconciliations to ensure data quality
- Cut-over and Go-live support
- Contribute to cut over and go-live planning
- Support production data migration activities
- Provide post go-live support hypercare
- Hands on experience of performing data migrations from non-SAP systems to SAP ECC6
- Experience of developing data migration load programs (e.g. LSMW)
- Strong understanding of SAP data objects
- Experience of data conversion, mapping and transformation
- Experience of resolving data load defects and failures
- Ability to work collaboratively with functional consultants and business stakeholders
- Strong problem solving and organisational skills
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