SAP Enterprise Architect - Contract - Outside IR35 at IO Associates, UK, £Contract Rate

Enterprise Architect - SAP S/4HANA Legacy Data Archiving - Contractor - Outside IR35

Role purpose:

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal, client-facing role in shaping and delivering a compliant archiving solution for legacy SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition) data. This role is critical both pre-award and post-award of the engagement.

Immediate requirement:

The successful candidate must be available to join an initial Microsoft Teams session on Thursday 8th at 2:30pm with our client to:

• Provide expert input on the proposed archiving approach.
• Validate the technical and compliance strategy.
• Strengthen our proposal through credible architectural leadership.

Post-award responsibility:

Subject to the project being awarded, the Enterprise Architect will then:

• Take overall architectural ownership of the delivery.
• Lead the technical team through design and implementation.
• Act as the primary architectural authority for the client throughout the engagement.

Key responsibilities:

• Define the end-to-end archiving strategy for 3-4 years of legacy S/4HANA Cloud data.
• Design a secure, read-only, audit-compliant archive architecture.
• Lead the data extraction, validation, and reconciliation approach across Finance, Projects, Assets, and master data.
• Establish role-based access models for historical data retrieval.
• Ensure compliance with data retention, legal hold, and tamper-proofing requirements.
• Provide architectural assurance for legacy system decommissioning readiness.

Required expertise:

• Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition) data extraction and system retirement.
• Strong background in enterprise and solution architecture for ERP and data lifecycle programmes.
• Delivery experience with compliant archiving platforms (e.g. SAP ILM, OpenText, PBS, or equivalent).
• Deep knowledge of financial and asset accounting structures and project data in SAP.
• Ability to operate credibly with CIO, Finance, Audit, and Compliance stakeholders.

The Enterprise Architect will be instrumental in:

• Helping us win the engagement through authoritative technical leadership.
• Ensuring the client can retire SAP S/4HANA Cloud with no operational dependency.
• Delivering a secure, low-cost, audit-ready archive solution.
• Establishing a clean, compliant target architecture for the future.