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Intelligent Automation Governance Lead - SAP S4

Cypress HCM
Sacramento, CA Contractor
POSTED ON 7/31/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/9/2027
Description

  • The Intelligent Automation Governance Lead - SAP S4 is responsible for readying the Finance automation estate and AI platform for the SAP S/4HANA migration and future scale, ensuring that production automations complete the transition with no-to-minimal business interruption. This role owns the end-to-end assessment, disposition, and remediation of the automation portfolio (retain / redesign / retire / replace) and establishes the reference architecture and release-governance controls that safeguard automation continuity through S4 design, cutover, and hypercare. Working in close partnership with the SAP S4 project team, SAP IT teams, and the internal Finance AI & Automation team, the role finalizes and maintains the automation redesign / re-delivery roadmap in sync with the S4 implementation framework. The ideal candidate combines strong intelligent automation expertise (UiPath), SAP S/4HANA impact awareness, and platform/release governance discipline to protect business continuity while enabling scalable, standards-aligned automation delivery.

Duties

  • Ensure automation continuity throughout the S4 transition, executing remediation and re-delivery with no-to-minimal business interruption to Finance operations.
  • Assess and disposition the full Finance automation portfolio for S4 readiness, classifying each automation as retain, redesign, retire, or replace.
  • Ready the Finance automation estate and AI platform for S4 migration and scale, ensuring automations remain resilient through the transition.
  • Remediate high-impact automations ahead of the relevant S4 design and cutover gates, prioritizing based on business criticality and migration risk.
  • Partner closely with the SAP S4 project team, relevant SAP IT teams, and the internal Finance AI & Automation team to finalize and maintain the automation redesign / re-delivery roadmap, kept in sync with the S4 implementation framework and timelines.
  • Establish and maintain a reference architecture for S4-compatible automations, including reusable patterns, standards, and design guardrails.
  • Define and enforce release-governance checks so that 100% of production releases are routed through governance controls.
  • Maintain a live disposition tracker and readiness dashboard providing visibility into portfolio status, remediation progress, and risk exposure.
  • Coordinate impact analysis for T-Code, BAPI, Fiori app, interface, and integration changes introduced by S4, and translate these into automation remediation requirements.
  • Define release management, versioning, and change-control standards across Dev/Test/Prod environments.
  • Prior participation in additional S/4 migration programs involving RPA portfolio migration and automation redesign.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to Finance leadership on automation continuity risk, governance posture, and S4 readiness.

Requirements

  • 7 years of overall experience in Intelligent Automation / RPA delivery, platform governance, or enterprise automation lifecycle management.
  • 5 years of hands-on experience with UiPath-based automation solutions, including architecture and governance roles.
  • Proven experience assessing and remediating large automation portfolios through major ERP or platform migrations.
  • Hands-on experience through a full or in-flight SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration journey (strongly preferred) - including how ECC-to-S4 changes (T-Codes, BAPIs, Fiori, table/data model changes, interfaces) impact existing automations and the sequencing of remediation across design, cutover, and hypercare.
  • Strong understanding of Finance business processes including Procure-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, and Shared Services operations.
  • Demonstrated experience defining and operating release-governance and change-control frameworks in a production environment.
  • Prior experience as a Solution Architect, Automation Lead, Senior Engineer, or Principal Engineer in enterprise or large-scale AI/Automation environments.
  • Experience collaborating with distributed development teams and global stakeholders across multiple time zones.

Technical Expertise

Intelligent Automation & Agentic AI (Mandatory)

  • Deep hands-on experience with UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, and Enterprise RPA architecture.
  • Strong proficiency in UiPath Agentic AI capabilities, including:
  • UiPath Maestro
  • Action Center & Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) frameworks
  • UiPath AI Center
  • Intelligent Xtraction Platform (IXP)
  • Integration Services
  • Conversational Agents in UiPath
  • Good to Have: UiPath Apps, Data Fabric, Healing Agents, Screenplay, Autopilot.
  • Ability to design and review UiPath libraries, reusable components, and enterprise automation frameworks.

SAP S4 Integration & Continuity

  • Strong understanding of SAP Joule and SAP Business AI, including how Joule complements UiPath agentic automation in an S/4HANA landscape, and its implications for automation redesign.
  • Hands-on experience with SAP Fiori applications, including how Fiori app changes in S4 impact UI-based and transactional automations.
  • Strong working knowledge of BAPIs, RFC-enabled function modules, IDocs, and OData/REST APIs for building resilient, API-first automation integrations with SAP.
  • Familiarity with SAP T-Codes, GUI transactions, and backend tables, and the ability to map their S4 equivalents for automation remediation.

Platform, Release Governance & Cloud

  • Release management, versioning, environment governance (Dev/Test/Prod), and CI/CD for automation deployments.
  • Automation monitoring, exception handling, and production support governance practices.

AI Tools, Integration & Data

  • Hands-on experience designing and architecting automations using UiPath, including agent lifecycle management (Dev/Test/Prod configuration, governance, and cross-tenant migration).
  • Strong experience with API-based integrations, SharePoint Lists, Microsoft Graph APIs, MySQL / SQL Server, MongoDB, and structured/unstructured data sources.

Added Advantage (Optional)

  • Exposure to UiPath Bring-Your-Own-Model (BYOM).

Leadership & Communication

  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage both technical teams and Finance business users across time zones.
  • Proven ability to lead governance boards, design reviews, and readiness checkpoints across cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to translate migration risk and automation impact into clear, executive-ready recommendations.
  • Strong ownership mindset with end-to-end accountability for automation continuity through S4.
  • Consulting mindset capable of balancing speed, risk, governance, scalability, and business value.
  • Willingness to continuously learn and adopt emerging AI, agentic, cloud, and automation technologies and bring them into the team's roadmap.

Compensation

  • $100-110/hr W—2

Req ID

  • 7429

Salary : $100 - $110

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