Director, Commercial Systems Data Migration Lead

Thomson Reuters•Eagan, MN

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Commercial Systems Data Migration Lead owns strategy and execution for the CSA Data Migration workstream within a global Commercial Systems Acceleration program. The role leads the movement of data from legacy systems into a governed, S/4HANA-ready foundation, including SAP BRIM billing and revenue scenarios and connected commercial systems. It combines hands-on technical and functional leadership with accountability for program delivery, data readiness, and advice to senior leadership on risk, readiness, and cutover decisions. AI tools are central to the approach for profiling, mapping, cleansing, development, testing, and reconciliation to improve speed and quality and reduce risk. The role defines migration strategy and governance, manages the full migration lifecycle and toolchain, and provides technical leadership for SAP BRIM and S/4HANA migration development. It leads a globally distributed team and system integrators, offshore partners, and vendors, while coordinating with business and functional workstreams. The work model is described as remote-friendly, with up to 20% domestic and international travel. The posting also describes a flexible hybrid work environment for office-based roles and work-from-anywhere flexibility for up to eight weeks per year. Thomson Reuters describes a comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering, including health and insurance coverage, retirement savings, paid time off, parental leave, professional development, and employee programs. The role may be eligible for an annual bonus. The listed base compensation range is $183,100–$340,000 for specified eligible locations and $158,900–$295,100 for other eligible U.S. locations; actual pay depends on location and other factors.

Requirements

12+ years of SAP experience, including 5+ years leading large-scale data migration for SAP ERP or S/4HANA and Commercial Systems, and 2+ years in a Director-level or equivalent role managing global teams.
Proven end-to-end ownership of data migration for 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 experience with SAP BRIM, including Subscription Order Management, Convergent Charging, Convergent Invoicing, and FI-CA, and migration of billing and revenue data.
Strong understanding of core SAP master data and transactional data across FI/CO, SD, MM, and related modules.
Demonstrated fluency with AI tools applied to data migration and development, with concrete examples of improved 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 ability to recruit, develop, and retain 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 used in migration and analytics.
Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar frameworks for connecting AI agents to enterprise systems.
Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD for SAP.
Experience in subscription, usage-based billing, or software, utilities, or media industries where BRIM is commonly deployed.
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), SAP BRIM, or 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, approach, wave planning, and alignment with program milestones.
Establish migration governance covering data ownership, quality standards, cleansing rules, sign-offs, audit trails, and privacy and retention compliance, including GDPR, CCPA, and SOX.
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 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 ecosystem applications.
Manage data volumes, performance, delta loads, and downtime optimization for large-scale cutovers.
Own data reconciliation frameworks, including record counts, financial balances, and open items.
Provide technical and functional leadership for SAP BRIM data migration, 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 and coordinate with FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, and BRIM functional workstreams.
Define and drive the workstream’s AI strategy and apply AI/LLM tooling to profiling, anomaly detection, mapping, cleansing, standardization, matching, and transformation-rule generation.
Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate mapping, migration-object development, code review, unit testing, and documentation.
Implement AI-enabled testing and reconciliation automation, including synthetic and masked test data generation, test-case creation, and automated variance analysis.
Establish guardrails for AI use, including privacy, security, human review, auditability, and responsible AI practices.
Evaluate emerging tools, measure productivity gains, and scale effective practices across the program.
Build and lead a globally distributed migration team of architects, functional data leads, ABAP developers, 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, roles, KPIs, and escalation paths; recruit, develop, and retain talent; and foster data ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
Advise program leadership on data readiness, migration risk, and cutover decisions; communicate status through business-impact narratives, dashboards, and executive reporting.
Drive alignment across IT, Finance, Billing, Operations, business segments, and external partners, and anticipate and resolve cross-workstream dependencies and conflicts.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
401(k) plan with company match.
Flexible vacation, sick and safe paid time off, and paid holidays, including two company-wide mental health days.
Parental leave and sabbatical leave.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee incentive programs and possible annual bonus.
Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to eight weeks per year.
Access to the Headspace app and Employee Assistance Program.
Fitness reimbursement and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
Adoption and surrogacy assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Commuter benefits.
Two paid volunteer days annually and opportunities for pro-bono consulting and ESG initiatives.
Career development and continuous learning programs.