SAP Solutions Architect

Overview

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a SAP Solutions Architect to support a major national laboratory. Our position is remote.
Responsibilities

- Serve as the client-side senior authority on SAP data migration; face off to the System Integrator's data lead as a technical peer.

- Review and challenge the SI's data migration approach and push back where the approach carries unnecessary risk, cost, or downstream operational burden.

- Advise the program on migration architecture decisions specific to greenfield S/4HANA from non-SAP sources (Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, custom systems), including source-to-target data model translation and legacy-concept-to-SAP-concept mapping.

- Advise on tooling selection when the SI's approach is still open and evaluate trade-offs on fit, cost, timeline, and regulated-industry auditability.

Hands-on Coordination & Delivery

- Own day-to-day execution coordination of the client-side data workstream across all domains.

- Keep the migration task plan current, flag slippage early, and drive resolution.

- Serve as the daily point of contact with the SI's data migration team; track integrator deliverables and escalate delays.

- Run regular working sessions with client data owners and the integrator's team; chase open actions, decisions, and deliverables between meetings.

Data Cleansing & Quality

- Set and monitor cleansing standards across data domains against agreed quality thresholds; validate that the SI's quality criteria are fit for S/4HANA go-live.

- Coordinate with business data owners to keep cleansing on schedule; unblock issues with the right people rather than deferring upward.

- Surface data quality risks the SI may not flag (missing legacy concepts, silent data loss in transformation, dependencies across domains) before they become critical.

Load Cycles & Reconciliation

- Organize and track mock load cycles across all domains.

- Review reconciliation results independently of the SI.

- Ensure business teams complete validation tasks within cycle windows and that findings are actioned.

Governance, Compliance & Cutover

- Ensure data migration activities comply with the organization's data classification policy and applicable regulatory requirements throughout extraction, staging, transformation, and load.

- Maintain the data migration cutover plan; coordinate extraction and load scheduling with the SI and technical teams.

- Prepare data readiness inputs for go/no-go decisions and provide informed, independent risk assessment to program leadership.

- Support hypercare on data-related issues post go-live.

Reporting & Communication
- Support migration status reporting and RAID logging for program leadership.

Qualifications

- 15+ years leading enterprise SAP data migration workstreams, with at least 4 full-lifecycle S/4HANA programs delivered end-to-end (greenfield preferred).

- U.S. Citizenship is required per contract.

- Experience running the data workstream from inside a major System Integrator on programs of significant scale and complexity, followed by client-side advisory work.

- Deep hands-on experience migrating from non-SAP sources into SAP.

- Full-scope enterprise migration experience spanning Finance (FI/CO), Supply Chain (MM, SD, PP, WM), HR/HCM, Plant Maintenance / EAM, and Master Data (business partner, material, customer, vendor).

- Working expertise across multiple migration toolsets.

- Demonstrated focus on delivery quality.

- Comfortable engaging SI leadership as a peer: knows when to escalate, when to accept an SI's judgment, and when to hold position; can distinguish genuine constraints from convenient ones.

- Hands-on advisor: runs working sessions, chases actions, maintains plans day-to-day, and retains senior-level judgment throughout.

- Deep understanding of S/4HANA data models, business partner concept, universal journal, material ledger, and the structural changes from legacy ERPs.

- Strong grounding in dat