SAP Data Migration Lead

Our client is a prestigious global professional services firm and a market leader in Hungary. Located in a modern, vibrant office in the heart of Budapest, they provide industry-leading audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to top-tier multinationals and major local enterprises.

Known for fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation, they offer professionals the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact projects alongside some of the best minds in the industry. This is an exceptional environment for ambitious individuals looking to accelerate their careers, gain international exposure, and drive meaningful business transformation.

• Own the end-to-end data migration workstream within SAP S/4HANA implementation and conversion programmes.
• Define the migration strategy, roadmap, scope, governance model and delivery approach.
• Lead migration activities across the Explore, Build, Test, Cutover and Go-Live phases.
• Coordinate data profiling, extraction, transformation, mapping, loading, validation and reconciliation.
• Plan and oversee migration cycles, mock migrations, dress rehearsals and production cutover.
• Establish quality controls covering data completeness, accuracy, reconciliation and auditability.
• Manage workstream risks, dependencies, decisions and escalations.
• Advise clients and project teams on the most appropriate migration tools and approaches.
• Collaborate with functional leads, solution architects, integration teams, business process owners and programme leadership.
• Lead and develop data migration consultants and client-side teams.
• Contribute to proposals, client conversations and the development of migration methodologies and accelerators.

• 7+ years of experience in SAP data migration or SAP transformation projects
• Proven responsibility for leading a data migration workstream within an SAP S/4HANA implementation, conversion or rollout.
• Experience migrating data from SAP ECC or other legacy ERP platforms to S/4HANA.
• Strong knowledge of SAP master data, transactional data and relevant SAP data structures.
• A solid understanding of the full migration lifecycle, including profiling, cleansing, mapping, transformation, loading, validation and reconciliation.
• Experience establishing migration governance, quality controls and cutover readiness.
• Familiarity with tools such as SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, SAP Data Services or comparable ETL and migration solutions.
• Confidence working with senior client stakeholders and distributed international teams.
• Experience coordinating or mentoring consultants and client-side delivery teams.
• Strong English communication skills and native Hungarian are a must
• You are based in Budapest as the role requires presence in the office 2x per week
• Availability for international travel when required by the project.

• SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud experience.
• Exposure to SAP MDG, master data management, data governance or data quality.
• Experience with additional ETL or data migration platforms.
• Relevant SAP or data migration certifications.
• Previous experience in a global consulting or systems integration environment.
• Experience supporting proposals, solutioning or business development activities.