Senior Manager, SAP Data Lead

Ametek, Inc.

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Data Lead to own the data strategy, governance, and migration workstreams for our SAP S/4HANA implementation program. This role is critical to ensuring clean, accurate, and well-governed data across the enterprise as we transition to S/4HANA, and will serve as the primary authority on data quality, migration methodology, and master data standards throughout the program lifecycle. In this role, you will also have the SAP S/4 data migration team as direct reports.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, related field.
10+ years of experience in SAP data management, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with the SAP Master Data Governance application
Experience with the Syniti application
Experience managing a team
Strong leadership skills and proven ability to adapt leadership style to different situations and people as well as to a complex business structure.
Ability to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end data workstream for the S/4HANA program, including data assessment, cleansing, mapping, migration, validation, and reconciliation.
Define and own the data migration strategy, approach, and tooling.
Develop and enforce master data governance standards for key domains (e.g., Customer, Vendor, Material, Finance, Chart of Accounts, Cost Center).
Partner with business process owners to define data quality rules, cleansing criteria, and acceptance thresholds prior to migration.
Oversee data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) activities from legacy systems into S/4HANA.
Lead mock and final data load cycles, coordinating with functional teams (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, PM, etc.) to validate data readiness.
Establish data reconciliation processes to ensure completeness and accuracy between legacy and target systems.
Manage a team of data analysts, data migration specialists, and offshore resources supporting the data workstream.
Identify data-related risks and issues, and develop mitigation plans in coordination with program leadership.
Define and track KPIs/metrics for data quality, migration progress, and defect resolution.
Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOX) throughout the migration.
Support post-go-live data governance, including ongoing master data maintenance processes and controls.
Document data standards, migration runbooks, and lessons learned for future phases or rollouts.