Solutions Architect 4

COMPA Industries • Los Alamos, NM

8d • $100 - $110 • Remote

About The Position

Join Los Alamos National Laboratory's Project Nexus initiative as the senior client-side authority responsible for one of the Laboratory's largest enterprise modernization efforts. This role provides strategic leadership for migrating Oracle EBS and other legacy ERP platforms to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, ensuring data integrity, regulatory compliance, and successful business transformation. You will partner directly with the System Integrator, influence key architectural decisions, mitigate migration risks, and help deliver a secure, scalable ERP platform supporting the Laboratory's long-term mission.

Requirements

• 15+ years leading enterprise SAP data migration initiatives.
• Successful delivery of at least four full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementations, preferably greenfield deployments.
• Experience serving both within a major System Integrator and later in a client-side advisory role.
• Extensive experience migrating enterprise data from Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, custom systems, or other non-SAP ERP platforms into SAP.
• Deep expertise across SAP functional domains, including: Finance (FI/CO), Supply Chain (MM, SD, PP, WM), HR/HCM, Plant Maintenance / Enterprise Asset Management, Master Data (Business Partner, Material, Customer, Vendor).
• Expert understanding of SAP S/4HANA data models, Business Partner, Universal Journal, Material Ledger, and key architectural differences from legacy ERP systems.
• Strong expertise in ETL architecture, Data staging strategies, Reconciliation, Cutover planning, Hypercare support, Data migration governance.
• Experience evaluating and utilizing multiple enterprise migration toolsets.
• Experience translating regulatory compliance requirements into effective migration controls.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage executives and technical teams alike.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree and 15 years of related experience, or 19 years of related experience in lieu of a degree.

Nice To Haves

• Oracle EBS migration expertise.
• SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC).
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
• BDC Connector experience.
• Databricks.
• Snowflake.
• Large-scale ERP modernization programs.
• SAP Data Migration methodologies.
• SAP migration certifications.
• Databricks certification.
• Experience supporting highly regulated industries including healthcare, financial services, life sciences, pharmaceutical, government, or similar environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the client-side senior authority for SAP data migration, acting as the technical peer to the System Integrator's Data Migration Lead.
• Review, challenge, and validate the System Integrator's migration strategy, ensuring unnecessary risks, costs, and operational burdens are avoided.
• Provide architectural guidance for greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementations migrating from Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, custom applications, and other non-SAP systems.
• Advise leadership on migration architecture, source-to-target mappings, legacy-to-SAP concept translation, and migration tooling.
• Lead day-to-day execution of the client-side data migration workstream across multiple functional domains.
• Maintain migration plans, identify schedule risks, and drive timely issue resolution.
• Coordinate closely with System Integrator teams, business stakeholders, and technical resources.
• Facilitate working sessions with business data owners while tracking actions, deliverables, and decisions.
• Establish and monitor enterprise data cleansing standards.
• Validate migration quality criteria and ensure readiness for SAP S/4HANA production deployment.
• Identify and mitigate data quality risks, including transformation issues, missing legacy concepts, and cross-domain dependencies.
• Ensure compliance with organizational data governance policies and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate mock conversion cycles across all functional domains.
• Independently review reconciliation results and validate migration accuracy.
• Maintain migration cutover plans, coordinate extraction and load schedules, and support go/no-go readiness activities.
• Provide hypercare support for post-production migration issues.
• Support executive reporting, RAID management, and migration status updates.
• Provide independent risk assessments to program leadership.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across technical, business, and System Integrator organizations to ensure successful delivery.

Benefits

• competitive compensation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior