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SAP Data Migration Consultant

IBM

IBM

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA
Posted on Feb 11, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Package Consultant at IBM, you will design, develop, and re-engineer complex application components and integrate software packages to drive mission-critical client results. You will apply a blend of consultative skills and technical expertise to facilitate the hybrid cloud and AI journey for global organizations.

A SAP Data Migration Consultant plays a vital role in ensuring data integrity and consistency during the implementation of SAP projects by managing the end-to-end migration lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities :

1. Strategy & Project Planning

  • Develop and execute comprehensive data migration strategies for SAP Hybrid (Selective Data Transition, Bluefield, Rapid Move) or traditional Brownfield/Greenfield projects.

  • Define scope, objectives, and deliverables while identifying and mitigating risks to ensure projects stay within timeline and budget.

  • Implement "early warning systems" to proactively address potential delays in the migration timeline.

2. Data Assessment & Quality Management

  • Assess the readiness and quality of legacy data, defining robust rules for cleansing, enrichment, and validation.

  • Oversee data mapping and transformation logic specifically for EAM data structures.

  • Implement data modeling and quality management techniques to ensure accurate data reflects in the target system.

3. Technical Execution & ETL

  • Design, develop, and execute migration programs and scripts using tools like SNP CrystalBridge or SAP standard migration tools.

  • Coordinate the end-to-end Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) process from legacy systems to SAP.

  • Troubleshoot technical migration activities promptly to resolve data-related issues.

4. Testing & Validation

  • Design and execute robust test plans, including unit, integration, and User Acceptance Tests (UAT), to guarantee functionality after migration.

  • Validate migrated data against business and regulatory requirements to ensure absolute data integrity.

5. Stakeholder Collaboration & Mentorship

  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand data requirements and validation criteria.

  • Collaborate with global experts, including the off shore centre and regional project teams, to maintain alignment on delivery.

  • Provide guidance and mentorship to team members and analysts to foster an efficient working environment.

6. Documentation, Training & Compliance

  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of migration processes, mapping rules, and validation criteria.

  • Provide training and support to business users on migration tools and offer post-migration support.

  • Ensure all activities comply with data security measures and organizational policies to protect sensitive information.

7. Continous Improvement:

  • Identify improvement opportunities for improving data migration processes and methodologies
  • Stay updated with the latest SAP data migration tools and technologies
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Experience: Minimum 6 years of experience in SAP Data Migration projects (Greenfield, Brownfield, or Hybrid/Selective Data Transition).
  • Functional Expertise: Strong understanding of EAM data structures and business processes.
  • Platform Knowledge: Proven expertise in SAP S/4HANA migration using SNP tools (such as CrystalBridge) or standard SAP tools.
  • Soft Skills: Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to work in fast-paced, agile environments.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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