Solutions Architect 4

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.

Responsibilities

Serve as the client-side senior authority for SAP data migration and technical peer to the System Integrator's Data Migration Lead; Review, challenge, and validate the System Integrator's migration strategy; 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 with System Integrator teams, business stakeholders, and technical resources; Facilitate working sessions with business data owners; 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; Ensure compliance with organizational data governance policies and 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

Requirements

15+ years leading enterprise SAP data migration workstreams; At least four full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementations delivered end-to-end; Proven experience migrating non-SAP ERP platforms (Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, or custom systems) into SAP S/4HANA; Deep understanding of Oracle environments; Experience serving as a senior client-side advisor or System Integrator data migration lead on large-scale enterprise ERP transformation programs; Experience serving both within a major System Integrator and later in a client-side advisory role; Deep expertise across SAP functional domains including Finance (FI/CO), Supply Chain (MM, SD, PP, WM), HR/HCM, Plant Maintenance / Enterprise Asset Management, and Master Data; 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, and 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; 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; Ability to acquire Q clearance (US Citizenship Required)

Nice to have

Greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementations; 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; SAP certifications

Benefits

Competitive compensation; Collaborative culture; Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on national security and scientific advancement