Director, Commercial Systems Data Migration Lead

Thomson Reuters • Eagan, MN

3d • $158,900 - $340,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Commercial Systems Data Migration Lead will own strategy and execution for the CSA Data Migration workstream within a global Commercial Systems Acceleration program. The role is accountable for moving data from legacy systems into a clean, governed, S/4HANA-ready foundation, including complex SAP BRIM billing and revenue scenarios and connected commercial systems. It will apply AI tooling throughout data migration and development to improve speed and quality and reduce risk.

This is a hands-on transformation leadership position requiring technical and functional knowledge of S/4HANA commercial systems. The lead will review migration objects and custom code, challenge design decisions, and unblock delivery teams. The role is accountable for data readiness for go-live and advises senior leadership on risk, readiness, and cutover decisions.

The position leads a globally distributed, multi-country workstream involving internal staff, system integrators, and partner resources. It is remote-friendly, with travel of up to 20% domestically and internationally. It reports to the Vice President, Commercial Systems Transformation.

Requirements

• 12 or more years of SAP experience.
• At least 5 years leading large-scale data migration for SAP ERP or S/4HANA and Commercial Systems.
• At least 2 years in a Director-level or equivalent leadership role managing global teams.
• End-to-end ownership of data migration on at least one full-lifecycle S/4HANA transformation, from strategy through cutover and hypercare, with measurable outcomes.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA development, including ABAP/OOP, CDS, RAP, OData/REST APIs, and SAP Fiori.
• Hands-on SAP BRIM experience, including Subscription Order Management, Convergent Charging, Convergent Invoicing, and FI-CA, with billing and revenue data migration experience.
• Strong understanding of SAP master data domains, including business partner, customer, vendor, and material, and transactional data including open items, balances, and contracts across FI/CO, SD, MM, and related modules.
• Demonstrated fluency with AI tools applied to data migration and development, with concrete examples of improving speed, quality, or cost.
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets, multi-geography teams, and vendor/system integrator relationships.
• Strong executive communication skills and ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Proven people leadership, including recruiting, developing, and retaining high-performing technical teams across cultures and time zones.

Nice To Haves

• Experience migrating data from legacy ERPs to SAP S/4HANA and connected commercial systems.
• Experience with data quality, master data management, and data governance tooling.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms and hyperscaler services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP for migration and analytics.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar frameworks connecting AI agents to enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with SAP DevOps and CI/CD.
• Experience in subscription, usage-based billing, or software, utilities, or media industries where BRIM is commonly used.
• Background in regulated environments with strong audit and compliance requirements.
• Experience establishing or participating in a Center of Excellence for data migration or SAP delivery.
• S/4HANA (Finance, Sales, or Data Migration) credential.
• Generative AI Developer/Architect or equivalent AI/ML credential.
• PMP, SAFe, or equivalent program management certification.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end CSA data migration strategy, including scope, migration approach, wave planning, and alignment with program milestones.
• Establish data migration governance covering data ownership, quality standards, cleansing rules, sign-offs, audit trails, and privacy and retention compliance.
• Build the migration business case, budget, and resource plan, and report progress, risks, and readiness to executive stakeholders.
• Partner with Finance, Sales, Billing, and Operations data owners to drive data cleansing and validation accountability.
• Define legacy data retention, archiving, and decommissioning strategy.
• Lead the migration lifecycle from discovery and profiling through source-to-target mapping, transformation design, extraction, loading, validation, and reconciliation.
• Plan and run mock loads, dress rehearsals, cutover, and hypercare, with entry and exit criteria, go/no-go checkpoints, and rollback plans.
• Own the migration toolchain and architecture for migrations to SAP S/4HANA, Conga, and other connected applications.
• Manage data volumes, performance, delta loads, and downtime optimization for large cutovers.
• Own reconciliation frameworks, including record counts, financial balances, and open items, to provide confidence to business and audit stakeholders.
• Provide technical and functional migration leadership for SAP BRIM, including Subscription Order Management, Convergent Charging, Convergent Invoicing, FI-CA, and Revenue Accounting and Reporting.
• Direct migration of BRIM objects such as business partners, contract accounts, subscriptions and contracts, rate plans and charging data, billable items, open invoices and receivables, and revenue schedules.
• Review and guide S/4HANA migration-related development, including ABAP/OOP, RAP, CDS views, OData/REST APIs, custom migration objects, and conversion programs.
• Ensure migration design aligns with the target S/4HANA solution architecture.
• Coordinate with FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, and BRIM functional workstreams to keep data models, configuration, and migration objects aligned.
• Define and drive the migration workstream's AI strategy, applying AI where it can reduce effort, improve quality, and reduce cutover risk.
• Use AI and LLM tools for profiling, anomaly detection, mapping suggestions, cleansing, standardization, duplicate matching, and transformation-rule generation.
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and GitHub Copilot for mapping, migration-object development, code review, unit tests, and documentation.
• Implement AI-enabled testing and reconciliation automation, including synthetic and masked test data, test-case creation, and automated variance analysis.
• Set AI guardrails for privacy, security, human validation, auditability, and responsible use in a regulated environment.
• Evaluate emerging tools, measure productivity gains, and scale proven practices across the program.
• Build and lead a global team of migration architects, functional data leads, ABAP developers, data analysts, test leads, and cutover specialists.
• Manage system integrators, offshore delivery partners, and tool vendors, including statements of work, performance, quality, and commercial terms.
• Establish Agile/SAFe delivery standards, clear roles, KPIs, and escalation paths.
• Recruit, develop, and retain talent, combining SAP migration expertise with AI-fluent ways of working.
• Foster data ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Advise program leadership on data readiness, migration risk, and cutover decisions.
• Translate technical migration status into business-impact narratives, dashboards, and executive-ready reporting.
• Drive alignment across IT, Finance, Billing, Operations, business segments, and external partners.
• Anticipate cross-workstream dependencies and risks and resolve conflicts early.

Benefits

• Flexible vacation and paid time off.
• Two company-wide Mental Health Days off annually.
• Access to the Headspace app.
• Retirement savings plan with company match.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee incentive programs and possible annual bonus based on enterprise and individual performance.
• Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to eight weeks per year.
• Paid volunteer days: two annually.
• Health insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid holidays.
• Parental leave.
• Sabbatical leave.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Commuter benefits.
• Adoption and surrogacy assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Optional hospital, accident, sickness, life, and AD&D insurance, paid 100% by the employee.
• Access to a 529 Plan.
• Group legal and identity theft protection benefit, paid 100% by the employee.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed