Business Systems Mgmt 4- #26-18841

$100-$110 per hour

Sacramento, CA

Contract

Duration: 12 months

Role

Summary:

The Intelligent Automation Governance Lead - SAP S4 is responsible for readying the Finance automation estate and AI platform for the SAP S/4

HANA migration and future scale, ensuring that production automations complete the transition with no-to-minimal business interruption. This role owns the end-to-end assessment, disposition, and remediation of the automation portfolio (retain / redesign / retire / replace) and establishes the reference architecture and release-governance controls that safeguard automation continuity through S4 design, cutover, and hypercare. Working in close partnership with the SAP S4 project team, SAP IT teams, and the internal Finance AI & Automation team, the role finalizes and maintains the automation redesign / re-delivery roadmap in sync with the S4 implementation framework.

The ideal candidate combines strong intelligent automation expertise (UiPath), SAP S/4

HANA impact awareness, and platform/release governance discipline to protect business continuity while enabling scalable, standards-aligned automation delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure automation continuity throughout the S4 transition, executing remediation and re-delivery with no-to-minimal business interruption to Finance operations.

• Assess and disposition the full Finance automation portfolio for S4 readiness, classifying each automation as retain, redesign, retire, or replace.

• Ready the Finance automation estate and AI platform for S4 migration and scale, ensuring automations remain resilient through the transition.

• Remediate high-impact automations ahead of the relevant S4 design and cutover gates, prioritizing based on business criticality and migration risk.

• Partner closely with the SAP S4 project team, relevant SAP IT teams, and the internal Finance AI & Automation team to finalize and maintain the automation redesign / re-delivery roadmap, kept in sync with the S4 implementation framework and timelines.

• Establish and maintain a reference architecture for S4-compatible automations, including reusable patterns, standards, and design guardrails.

• Define and enforce release-governance checks so that 100% of production releases are routed through governance controls.

• Maintain a live disposition tracker and readiness dashboard providing visibility into portfolio status, remediation progress, and risk exposure.

• Coordinate impact analysis for T-Code, BAPI, Fiori app, interface, and integration changes introduced by S4, and translate these into automation remediation requirements.

• Define release management, versioning, and change-control standards across Dev/Test/Prod environments.

• Prior participation in additional S/4 migration programs involving RPA portfolio migration and automation redesign.

• Act as a trusted advisor to Finance leadership on automation continuity risk, governance posture, and S4 readiness.

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of overall experience in Intelligent Automation / RPA delivery, platform governance, or enterprise automation lifecycle management.

• 5 years of hands-on experience with UiPath-based automation solutions, including architecture and governance roles.

• Proven experience assessing and remediating large automation portfolios through major ERP or platform migrations.

• Hands-on experience through a full or in-flight SAP ECC to S/4
  
  HANA migration journey (strongly preferred) - including how ECC-to-S4 changes (T-Codes, BAPIs, Fiori, table/data model changes, interfaces) impact existing automations and the sequencing of remediation across design, cutover, and hypercare.

• Strong understanding of Finance business processes including Procure-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, and Shared Services operations.

• Demonstrated experience defining and operating release-governance and change-control frameworks in a production environment.

• Prior experience as a Solution Architect, Automation Lead, Senior Engineer, or Principal Engineer in enterprise or large-scale AI/Automation environments.

• Experience collaborating with distributed development teams and global stakeholders across multiple time zones.

Technical Expertise

• Intelligent…