SAP Data Migration Specialist

SAP Data Migration Specialist  Certain Advantage are hiring for an SAP Data Migration Specialist based in Newport. This role is on an initial 6-month contract and is required to be onsite 3 days a week. For this role,…

Pay rate £70 – £74/hour
Job type Temporary
Posted 6 October 2026

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SAP Data Migration Specialist 

Certain Advantage are hiring for an SAP Data Migration Specialist based in Newport.

This role is on an initial 6-month contract and is required to be onsite 3 days a week.

For this role, you will need to be eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Check (SC) clearance and meet the standard UK nationality and residency requirements for site access.

Role Overview

A leading Defence business is seeking an experienced data migration specialist to support the migration of a recent UK acquisition to their ECC6 SAP system

The role will focus on data preparation, cleansing, conversion, loading and reconciliation from a non- SAP system to SAP ECC6 through iterative migration cycles, ensuring business readiness for deployment and supporting a successful go-live.
 
Your responsibilities will include:

Data preparation and cleansing
Produce and maintain key documentation including data migration plans, mapping specifications and runbooks
Support business teams with data cleansing of non-SAP data
Prepare templates for master and transactional data
Data extraction and transformation
Data migration
Develop migration test scripts i.e. using LSMW
Execute migration test loads and troubleshoot failures and defects
Execute dress rehearsals and perform reconciliations to ensure data quality
Cut-over and Go-live support
Contribute to cut over and go-live planning
Support production data migration activities
Provide post go-live support hypercare 
The individual:

Hands on experience of performing data migrations from non-SAP systems to SAP ECC6
Experience of developing data migration load programs (e.g. LSMW)
Strong understanding of SAP data objects
Experience of data conversion, mapping and transformation
Experience of resolving data load defects and failures
Ability to work collaboratively with functional consultants and business stakeholders
Strong problem solving and organisational skills 
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