Serrala Consultant

Job Title: Serrala Neev Archiving SME Senior Consultant / Solution Lead

Role: Senior Serrala Archiving SME – SAP S/4HANA Data, Document Archiving & Legacy Decommissioning

Role Summary: Senior Serrala Archiving SME responsible for solution design, implementation, governance, testing, deployment, and operational readiness of Serrala Neev archiving capabilities supporting SAP S/4HANA active archiving, document storage, archived-data retrieval, compliance, and legacy ERP decommissioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, implementation, and deployment of Serrala Neev archiving capabilities for SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Develop the enterprise archiving strategy, roadmap, governance model, archiving playbook, retention schedule, operating procedures, and deployment approach across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, and legacy systems.
• Conduct discovery and design workshops to identify data-growth drivers, in-scope archiving objects, business dependencies, legal and compliance constraints, retrieval requirements, reporting needs, and decommissioning objectives.
• Configure and validate SAP archiving objects, variants, residence and retention periods, dependency sequencing, write/delete/store processes, background jobs, indexes, and archived-data access.
• Apply SAP archiving capabilities and concepts including ADK, Archive Information System, SAP ILM, ArchiveLink, content repositories, and retention or destruction controls according to project scope.
• Integrate Serrala with SAP Content Server, OpenText, cloud repositories, or equivalent enterprise content-management platforms and validate secure storage, indexing, search, access, and retrieval.
• Design legacy ERP retrieval and closed-loop access models that allow authorized users to retrieve historical data and attachments from SAP S/4HANA or approved web/Fiori interfaces.
• Support structured SAP data and attachment archiving, including compliant cloud storage, retention, residency, audit trails, SSO, MFA, and role-based access requirements.
• Coordinate archiving waves, pilot execution, end-to-end testing, reconciliation, cutover, destruction evidence, application decommissioning readiness, go-live, and hypercare.
• Act as the primary escalation point for archiving jobs, retrieval failures, content-repository issues, data reconciliation, performance, compliance evidence, and operational stabilization.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as primary Serrala Archiving SME for customer and program leadership.
• Own the functional and technical archiving design, object inventory, dependencies, configuration standards, runbooks, reconciliation framework, retrieval model, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with business and technical owners to preserve reporting, audit, legal-hold, privacy, retention, and ongoing business-access requirements.
• Define monitoring and operational controls for archiving jobs, archive growth, database reduction, failed objects, storage, retrieval success, access, and compliance.
• Coordinate with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Order-to-Cash, BASIS, Security, Infrastructure, Data, Integration, Legal, Compliance, Records Management, and business teams.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, stakeholder communication, vendor coordination, onsite-offshore delivery, and deployment readiness.
• Provide knowledge transfer, support handover, monitoring procedures, operational documentation, and continuous-improvement recommendations.

Requirements

• Minimum 10–15+ years of SAP information-management, archiving, BASIS, data-management, or related enterprise experience.
• Proven hands-on implementation and solution-design experience with Serrala archiving solutions, preferably Serrala Neev, in SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA landscapes.
• Strong expertise in SAP data archiving, document archiving, information lifecycle management, archiving objects, ADK, AIS, SAP ILM, retention rules, and data-destruction controls.
• Experience integrating Serrala with SAP Content Server, OpenText, ArchiveLink, cloud object storage, or equivalent content repositories.
• Strong understanding of data-volume management, database-growth analysis, archiving job scheduling, dependency sequencing, indexes, storage, retrieval, and performance optimization.
• Experience defining or implementing retention, residency, legal-hold, audit, SOX, privacy, security, and records-management requirements with appropriate stakeholders.
• Experience supporting S/4HANA transformation, archived-data access, historical-data disposition, reconciliation, cutover, legacy-system decommissioning, and hypercare.
• Excellent workshop facilitation, documentation, structured problem-solving, stakeholder management, vendor coordination, leadership, and customer-facing consulting skills.

Project-Specific Requirements

• Experience delivering Serrala/Neev archiving for SAP S/4HANA active data, documents, attachments, and legacy ERP decommissioning.
• Experience designing and validating Fiori-based or embedded retrieval of archived information and attachments.
• Experience executing pilots and phased archiving waves by company code, fiscal year, business area, or archiving object.
• Experience producing reconciliation evidence, retrieval-service-level evidence, database-reduction KPIs, audit evidence, legal-hold validation, and destruction certificates where required.
• Experience supporting ECC or other legacy-ERP shutdown readiness while preserving approved historical-data access.
• Ability to work independently with global, multi-vendor teams and lead critical design, cutover, decommissioning, compliance, and stabilization discussions.

Account Context

• Customer interviews are Serrala archiving, SAP archiving, content-repository integration, retention, retrieval, decommissioning, and scenario driven.
• Strong emphasis on actual Serrala or Neev implementation experience rather than general SAP archiving support exposure.
• Candidate should be able to explain archiving-object selection, dependencies, ADK/AIS/ILM usage, residence and retention design, job sequencing, content-repository integration, secure retrieval, testing, reconciliation, cutover, and hypercare.
• Candidate should demonstrate an understanding of how archiving supports S/4HANA transformation, database reduction, compliance, audit response, historical-data access, and legacy-system retirement.
• Evaluation emphasizes hands-on configuration and delivery depth, independent ownership, stakeholder leadership, compliance awareness, structured troubleshooting, and business sign-off management.
• Pure Serrala Finance/Cash Application experience without data or document archiving expertise is not sufficient.

Environment: Serrala Neev, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP Data Archiving, SAP Document Archiving, SAP ILM, ADK, Archive Information System, ArchiveLink, SAP Content Server, OpenText, Cloud Content Repositories, Fiori Retrieval, SSO/MFA, Data Volume Management