Job Summary:

The Data Archive Analyst is responsible for optimizing SAP system performance and ensuring compliance with data retention policies through SAP data archiving projects.
Collaborates with business and global compliance teams to manage ECC data archiving, decommissioning, and destruction activities.
Leverages expertise in SAP frameworks, ArchiveLink, SAP ILM, and OpenText document management to enhance archiving processes across SAP environments, including ECC and S/4HANA.
Applies ABAP skills to develop and enhance archiving objects and create custom utilities.
Analyzes database growth, plans archiving strategies, schedules archiving jobs, and supports auditing requirements.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

Collaborate with team members to execute SAP data archiving projects that improve system performance and ensure compliance with data retention policies.
Hands-on work in ECC data archiving, decommissioning, and destruction in coordination with business and global compliance teams.
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 SAP modules.
Design, build, test, and implement archiving objects within SAP environments (ECC and S/4HANA), adhering to RIM policies.
Create and test custom archiving objects, supporting auditing needs through various data retrieval methods from archives.
Schedule and monitor archiving jobs, maintain job logs, and prepare archiving statistics.
Configure retention and audit policies in compliance with legal requirements across countries using SAP ILM.
Implement OpenText document management activities related to data archiving.
Participate in at least two complete end-to-end SAP archival implementations.

Experience & Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
Minimum 5+ years of SAP experience with at least 2 years of ABAP development.
Minimum 2 years of hands-on SAP data archiving implementation experience.
Practical expertise in SAP Data Archiving framework, ArchiveLink, SAP ILM, and management of archived data across SAP modules.
Experience in configuring retention and audit policies.
Participation in multiple end-to-end SAP archival projects.

Skills & Knowledge:

Knowledge of ABAP development for developing and enhancing archiving objects and utilities.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
Solid understanding of business requirements and ability to prepare architectural specifications.
Ability to assign and monitor application design to ensure compliance with architectural standards.
Good interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in teams.
Effective oral and written communication skills.

SAP Data Archive Analyst