Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior JIVS Developer to support the extraction, transformation, archiving, and controlled retirement of legacy SAP systems using the JIVS Information Management Platform (JIVS IMP).
The successful candidate will design and implement secure, auditable data-archiving solutions that preserve access to historical SAP information while supporting regulatory retention, business reporting, legal discovery, and legacy-application decommissioning.
This role will work closely with SAP functional teams, data architects, infrastructure, cybersecurity, records management, business stakeholders, and the SAP S/4HANA transformation program.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, configure, develop, and support SAP data-archiving solutions using JIVS IMP.
- Extract structured and unstructured information from SAP ECC and other legacy applications.
- Analyze SAP tables, relationships, business objects, transactions, attachments, and historical reporting requirements.
- Develop data-extraction, transformation, mapping, validation, and loading processes.
- Configure JIVS data structures, views, reports, search capabilities, user access, and retention rules.
- Preserve the business context and relationships between archived SAP records.
- Reconstruct historical business transactions such as purchase orders, work orders, invoices, financial documents, customer records, asset records, and maintenance history.
- Establish reconciliation controls that demonstrate the completeness and accuracy of archived information.
- Perform record-count, control-total, financial-balance, and document-level reconciliation.
- Support the archiving of SAP attachments and documents from repositories such as OpenText, SAP Content Server, ArchiveLink, or other content-management platforms.
- Develop interfaces between JIVS and enterprise identity, reporting, security, and records-management solutions.
- Implement role-based access controls and protect sensitive, financial, employee, and customer information.
- Configure retention, legal-hold, disposition, and deletion requirements in collaboration with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and Records Management.
- Support audit inquiries, regulatory reporting, litigation discovery, and historical business-data retrieval.
- Diagnose and resolve extraction, transformation, performance, reconciliation, and data-access issues.
- Prepare technical designs, data mappings, configuration documents, test scripts, operating procedures, and support documentation.
- Support unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, performance testing, and production deployment.
- Participate in cutover planning, mock conversions, production migrations, stabilization, and operational handover.
- Support the controlled decommissioning of legacy SAP environments after archive completeness and accessibility have been confirmed.
- Provide knowledge transfer and technical guidance to internal application-support and data-management teams.
Required Qualifications
- Five or more years of experience with SAP data management, data migration, archiving, or legacy-system retirement.
- Hands-on implementation or development experience with JIVS IMP.
- Strong understanding of SAP ECC data structures and relationships.
- Experience working with SAP functional data across one or more areas, such as:
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- Finance and Controlling
- Materials Management and Procurement
- Plant Maintenance or Enterprise Asset Management
- Sales and Distribution
- Human Capital Management
- Project Systems
- Customer service or utility-industry solutions
- Experience extracting information from SAP databases, application tables, archives, and document repositories.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases.
- Experience with data mapping, transformation, reconciliation, and validation.
- Understanding of SAP Archive Development Kit, ArchiveLink, SAP ILM, or comparable archiving technologies.
- Knowledge of records-retention, privacy, security, legal-hold, and defensible-deletion requirements.
- Experience supporting complex enterprise transformations or SAP S/4HANA programs.
- Ability to translate business retrieval requirements into secure and usable archive solutions.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with ABAP development or SAP technical analysis.
- Experience archiving data from multiple SAP and non-SAP applications.
- Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA migration and selective data-transition strategies.
- Experience with OpenText, SAP Content Server, document-management platforms, or enterprise content repositories.
- Familiarity with Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP HANA, or other enterprise databases.
- Experience with data-profiling, ETL, reporting, and reconciliation tools.
- Understanding of Canadian privacy, financial-record, utility, or regulated-industry retention requirements.
- Experience working in the energy, utility, infrastructure, government, banking, or other regulated sectors.
- Relevant SAP, database, cloud, data-management, or JIVS certifications.
Key Deliverables
- JIVS technical architecture and configuration.
- SAP source-system and data-object inventory.
- Data mappings and transformation specifications.
- Extraction and archive-loading routines.
- Historical transaction views and reports.
- Attachment and document-migration solution.
- Security-role and access-control configuration.
- Retention and legal-hold configuration.
- Reconciliation and archive-certification reports.
- Testing evidence and defect-resolution documentation.
- Cutover and production-deployment plans.
- Legacy-system decommissioning evidence.
- Operational support procedures and knowledge-transfer materials.
Core Competencies
- SAP technical and data expertise
- JIVS configuration and development
- Data quality and reconciliation
- Information governance and regulatory compliance
- Security and privacy awareness
- Structured problem-solving
- Clear technical documentation
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Delivery accountability
Success Measures
Success in this role will be measured by:
- Complete and accurate migration of required historical information.
- Successful reconciliation between SAP source systems and JIVS.
- Timely and reliable retrieval of archived business records.
- Compliance with security, privacy, retention, and legal requirements.
- Business and auditor acceptance of archived information.
- Successful retirement of legacy platforms without loss of required information.
- Stable transition of the JIVS solution into ongoing operations and support.
