Location: Remote with occasional travel to Los Alamos, New Mexico
Pay Rate: $100–$110/hr
Clearance: Ability to acquire Q clearance (US Citizenship Required)
Start Date: ASAP; interviews are beginning immediately
Applicants must demonstrate:
- 15+ years leading enterprise SAP data migration workstreams, including at least four (4) full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementations delivered end-to-end, with greenfield implementations strongly preferred.
- Proven experience migrating non-SAP ERP platforms (Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, or custom systems) into SAP S/4HANA, including deep understanding of Oracle environments.
- Experience serving as a senior client-side advisor or System Integrator data migration lead on large-scale enterprise ERP transformation programs.
Candidates who do not meet these minimum experience requirements will not be considered.
Join Los Alamos National Laboratory's Project Nexus initiative as the senior client-side authority responsible for one of the Laboratory's largest enterprise modernization efforts. This role provides strategic leadership for migrating Oracle EBS and other legacy ERP platforms to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, ensuring data integrity, regulatory compliance, and successful business transformation. You will partner directly with the System Integrator, influence key architectural decisions, mitigate migration risks, and help deliver a secure, scalable ERP platform supporting the Laboratory's long-term mission.
- Serve as the client-side senior authority for SAP data migration, acting as the technical peer to the System Integrator's Data Migration Lead.
- Review, challenge, and validate the System Integrator's migration strategy, ensuring unnecessary risks, costs, and operational burdens are avoided.
- Provide architectural guidance for greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementations migrating from Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, custom applications, and other non-SAP systems.
- Advise leadership on migration architecture, source-to-target mappings, legacy-to-SAP concept translation, and migration tooling.
- Lead day-to-day execution of the client-side data migration workstream across multiple functional domains.
- Maintain migration plans, identify schedule risks, and drive timely issue resolution.
- Coordinate closely with System Integrator teams, business stakeholders, and technical resources.
- Facilitate working sessions with business data owners while tracking actions, deliverables, and decisions.
- Establish and monitor enterprise data cleansing standards.
- Validate migration quality criteria and ensure readiness for SAP S/4HANA production deployment.
- Identify and mitigate data quality risks, including transformation issues, missing legacy concepts, and cross-domain dependencies.
- Ensure compliance with organizational data governance policies and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate mock conversion cycles across all functional domains.
- Independently review reconciliation results and validate migration accuracy.
- Maintain migration cutover plans, coordinate extraction and load schedules, and support go/no-go readiness activities.
- Provide hypercare support for post-production migration issues.
- Support executive reporting, RAID management, and migration status updates.
- Provide independent risk assessments to program leadership.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across technical, business, and System Integrator organizations to ensure successful delivery.
- 15+ years leading enterprise SAP data migration initiatives.
- Successful delivery of at least four full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementations, preferably greenfield deployments.
- Experience serving both within a major System Integrator and later in a client-side advisory role.
- Extensive experience migrating enterprise data from Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, custom systems, or other non-SAP ERP platforms into SAP.
- Deep expertise across SAP functional domains, including:
- Finance (FI/CO)
- Supply Chain (MM, SD, PP, WM)
- HR/HCM
- Plant Maintenance / Enterprise Asset Management
- Master Data (Business Partner, Material, Customer, Vendor)
- Expert understanding of SAP S/4HANA data models, Business Partner, Universal Journal, Material Ledger, and key architectural differences from legacy ERP systems.
- Strong expertise in:
- ETL architecture
- Data staging strategies
- Reconciliation
- Cutover planning
- Hypercare support
- Data migration governance
- Experience evaluating and utilizing multiple enterprise migration toolsets.
- Experience translating regulatory compliance requirements into effective migration controls.
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage executives and technical teams alike.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree and 15 years of related experience, or 19 years of related experience in lieu of a degree.
- Oracle EBS migration expertise.
- SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC).
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
- BDC Connector experience.
- Databricks.
- Snowflake.
- Large-scale ERP modernization programs.
- SAP Data Migration methodologies.
- SAP migration certifications.
- Databricks certification.
- Experience supporting highly regulated industries including healthcare, financial services, life sciences, pharmaceutical, government, or similar environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline and 15 years of relevant experience; or 19 years of directly related experience in lieu of a degree.
- SAP certifications and Databricks certifications are preferred but not required.
- Organization: ADS-BADS
- Project Type: Project Nexus – Enterprise ERP Modernization
- Start Date: Immediate
- Assignment Length: 1 year with potential extension
We strive to provide careers, not just jobs, for our employees. We invest in and serve the communities where we work and live. We provide best-in-class administrative, professional, and technical services to solve complex problems to meet customer mission-critical objectives.
For over 30 years, COMPA has been a trusted partner in progress. We combine decades of technical expertise with a forward-thinking spirit, tackling intricate challenges in nuclear facilities alongside the brightest minds in science and engineering. Join us, and don't just build your career—build the future—with competitive compensation, a collaborative culture, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on national security and scientific advancement.
COMPA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. Certain criminal histories may disqualify candidates for specific positions, per company policy.
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