Sr. SAP Data Archive Analyst

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Data Archive Analyst plays a crucial role in optimizing system performance and ensuring compliance with data retention policies through the implementation of SAP data archiving projects. This position requires collaboration with business and global compliance teams to manage ECC data archiving, decommissioning, and destruction activities. The analyst will leverage their expertise in SAP frameworks, ArchiveLink, DaRT, SAP ILM, and OpenText document management to enhance archiving processes across SAP environments, including ECC and S/4HANA.

Candidates should possess hands-on experience in configuring retention and audit policies, participating in multiple end-to-end SAP archival implementations, and applying knowledge of data destruction methods. ABAP skills are essential for developing and enhancing archiving objects and creating custom utilities. This role involves analyzing database growth, planning archiving strategies, scheduling archiving jobs, and supporting auditing requirements, all while engaging in SAP ILM initiatives to further streamline document management processes.

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to execute SAP data archiving projects that improve system performance and ensure compliance with data retention policies.

• Lead the activities of ECC data archiving, decommissioning, and destruction, working closely with business and global compliance teams to enforce data retention policies.

• Understand business processes to identify and map required archive objects.

• Conduct database growth analysis and develop archiving strategies, applying techno-functional expertise on data-dependent tables across various SAP modules.

• Design, build, test, and implement archiving objects within SAP environments, including ECC and S/4HANA, adhering to RIM policies.

• Create and test custom archiving objects, supporting auditing needs through various methods of data retrieval from archives.

• Schedule and monitor archiving jobs, maintaining job logs and preparing archiving statistics.

• Participate in SAP ILM initiatives.

• Configure and utilize OpenText Archive Server capabilities to efficiently manage SAP document attachments.

Experience & Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience.

The ideal candidate should possess practical expertise in the SAP Data Archiving framework, ArchiveLink, DaRT, SAP ILM, and the management of archived data across multiple SAP modules.

• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in SAP with at least 3 years of ABAP development experience and 4+ years of hands-on SAP data archiving implementation work

• Participation in at least three complete SAP archival implementations, serving as an SME for SAP archiving activities.

• Ability to configure retention and audit policies in compliance with legal requirements across different countries using the SAP ILM system.

• Proven experience in configuring retention and audit policies.

• Knowledge and experience in data destruction methods.

• ABAP experience for developing and enhancing archiving objects, as well as creating custom utilities related to archiving processes.

• Experience in configuring OpenText document management activities.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge and Ability Requirements:

• Demonstrates knowledge of ABAP development and SAP Data Archiving activities.

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

• Strong Mathematical and Analytical skills.

• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail.

• Solid understanding of business requirements and ability to prepare architectural specifications from which applications will be designed.

• Ability to assign and monitor application design and ensure compliance with architectural standards.

• Good conceptual and problem-solving skills to evaluate business problems and apply applications knowledge to identify appropriate solutions.

• Good interpersonal skills; effective team player.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

The noise level in the work environment is generally quiet.

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Sedentary physical activity requiring reaching, sifting, lifting, finger dexterity, grasping, feeling, repetitive motions, talking and hearing.

• Visual requirements are for close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.

• 75% or more time is spent looking directly at a computer.

• Associates are frequently required to stand, walk (or otherwise be mobile).

• Ability to deal with stressful situations as they arise.

delivery

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned