SAP DATA Archiving

Role & responsibilities

Job description : Responsible for leading end to end application data archiving initiatives,

working closing with the clients and internal stake holders to define, design, and document

archiving requirements across multiple applications. This role serves as the primary

functional and technical authority on data archiving Lifecyle practices, ensuring compliance

with data retention policies, security standards, and end user access needs.

SME will lead structured client workshops to capture archiving requirements, translating

business, legal and technical needs into clear, actionable documentation to support

archiving.

Key responsibilities :

Lead and facilitate client workshops to elicit and document detailed application archiving

requirements across business, legal and IT stakeholders.

Access application landscapes to determine appropriate archiving approaches

Serve as the primary point of contact for archiving related discussions , decisions, and

clarifications throughout the engagement lifecycle

Data Archiving Lifecycle expertise :

Define and document the full data archiving lifecycle u=including:

Data identification and eligibility

Retention and deletion policies

Archiving execution and validation

Ensure alignment with regulatory, compliance and audit requirements including long term

data retention and retrievability

Identify the archiving objects based on Top-Size tables

Customized the application settings, Object Specific & Basis Customization for the archiving

objects

Creation of Design and Build documents and user guides

Produce high quality client facing documentation including:

Archiving requirements specifications

Data retention and access models

Internal - General

Use

Application archiving assessments and recommendations

Ensure documentation is clear, complete, and suitable for technical implementation teams

and client review

Senior Archiving consultant :  Minimum of 8 years of SAP Archiving implementation

experience :

Strong knowledge in SAP Classical archiving solution and SAP ILM solution for SAP ECC

system

Understand business processes and map or identify the archiving objects, ILM policies, and

retention times

Scheduling archiving jobs and monitoring job logs, prepare archiving statistics

Experience in implementation of attachments archiving

End to end exposure of implementation experience in archiving project, good communication

and interpersonal skills

Strong knowledge in different archive server and archive link

Strong knowledge in different retrieval methods