Thomson Reuters US | Director, Commercial Systems Data Migration Lead

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a hands-on transformation leader to own strategy and execution for the CSA Data Migration workstream within our global Commercial Systems Acceleration program.
• You will define how data moves from legacy systems into a clean, governed, S/4HANA-ready foundation, including complex SAP BRIM billing and revenue scenarios, along with other connected commercial systems, and you will do it faster and with higher quality by putting AI tooling at the center of the migration approach.
• Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.
• Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC.
• This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
• You will understand S/4HANA commercial Systems development well enough to challenge design decisions, review migration objects and custom code, and unblock the build team.
• You will also be fluent with AI tools for data profiling, mapping, cleansing, code generation, test automation and reconciliation, and you will use them to compress timelines and reduce risk.
• You will work with a globally distributed team, manage a significant program delivery and, and serve as the accountable owner of data readiness for go-live, advising senior leadership on risk, readiness and cutover decisions.
• Build the migration business case, budget and resource plan, and report progress, risks and readiness to executive stakeholders.
• Partner with business data owners across Finance, Sales, Billing, and Operations to drive accountability for data cleansing and validation.
• Lead the full migration lifecycle: data discovery and profiling, source-to-target mapping, transformation design, extraction, load, validation and reconciliation.
• Plan and run mock loads, dress rehearsals, cutover and hypercare, with clear entry/exit criteria, go/no-go checkpoints, and rollback plans.
• Own the migration toolchain and architecture for the migrations to systems, including SAP S/4HANA, Conga and other applications in the ecosystem.
• Manage data volume, performance, delta loads and downtime optimization for large-scale cutovers.
• Own data reconciliation frameworks (record counts, financial balances, open items) that give business and audit teams confidence in migrated data.
• Review and guide S/4HANA development related to migration, including ABAP/OOP, RAP, CDS views, OData/REST APIs, custom migration objects and conversion programs.
• Ensure migration design aligns with the target S/4HANA solution architecture.
• Coordinate closely with functional workstreams (FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, BRIM) to ensure data models, configuration and migration objects stay in sync.
• Implement AI-enabled test and reconciliation automation, including synthetic and masked test data generation, test case creation, and automated variance analysis.
• Evaluate emerging tools and measure productivity gains, then scale proven practices across the program.
• Build and lead a globally distributed team of data migration architects, functional data leads, ABAP developers, data analysts, test leads and cutover specialists.
• Manage System Integrators, offshore delivery partners and tool vendors, including statements of work, performance, quality and commercial terms.
• Establish delivery standards using Agile/SAFe, and set clear roles, KPIs and escalation paths.
• Serve as the trusted advisor to program leadership on data readiness, migration risk and cutover decisions.
• Drive alignment across IT, Finance, Billing, Operations, business segments and external partners.

Requirements

• 12+ years of SAP experience, with 5+ years leading large-scale data migration for SAP ERP or S/4HANA and Commercial Systems, and 2+ years in a Director-level or equivalent leadership role managing global teams.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of data migration on at least one full-lifecycle S/4HANA transformation, from strategy through cutover and hypercare, with measurable outcomes.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA development: ABAP/OOP, CDS, RAP, OData/REST APIs, and SAP Fiori.
• Hands-on experience with SAP BRIM (Subscription Order Management, Convergent Charging, Convergent Invoicing, FI-CA), including data migration for billing and revenue scenarios.
• Strong understanding of core SAP data domains: master data (business partner, customer, vendor, material) and transactional data (open items, balances, contracts) across FI/CO, SD, MM and related modules.
• Demonstrated fluency with AI tools applied to data migration and development, with concrete examples of how you have used them to improve speed, quality or cost.
• Experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets, multi-geography teams and vendor/SI relationships.
• Strong executive communication skills and the ability to influence senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Proven people leadership: recruiting, developing and retaining high-performing technical teams across cultures and time zones.
• Experience with data migration from legacy ERPs to SAP S/4HANA and connected commercial systems.
• Experience with data quality and MDM and data governance tooling.
• Knowledge of cloud data platforms and hyperscaler services (AWS, Azure, GCP) used in migration and analytics.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar frameworks for connecting AI agents to enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD for SAP.
• Experience in subscription, usage-based billing or software/utilities/media industries where BRIM is typically deployed.
• Background in regulated environments with strong audit and compliance requirements.
• Experience establishing or participating in a Center of Excellence for data migration or SAP delivery.
• PMP, SAFe or equivalent program management certification.

Thomson Reuters Corporation

Thomson Reuters took its present form in April 2008, when the Canadian information group The Thomson Corporation acquired Reuters Group, the news business Paul Julius Reuter had started in London in 1851. Based in Toronto, it is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Nasdaq as TRI, and the Thomson family controls it through The Woodbridge Company. It serves lawyers, tax and accounting firms, corporate finance and legal teams and government bodies with research content and software such as Westlaw, Practical Law, ONESOURCE and CoCounsel, and it runs the Reuters news agency. In 2018 it sold a majority stake in its financial and risk business, which became Refinitiv.

• Industry: Information, software and AI tools for legal, tax and accounting, corporate and government professionals, plus the Reuters news agency
• Headquarters: Toronto, Canada (Thomson Reuters Corporation, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and Nasdaq as TRI)