SAP Technical Lead

Management Level

Job Description & Summary

Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Craft and convey clear, impactful and engaging messages that tell a holistic story.
• Apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and/or opportunities.
• Validate outcomes with clients, share alternative perspectives, and act on client feedback.
• Direct the team through complexity, demonstrating composure through ambiguous, challenging and uncertain situations.
• Deepen and evolve your expertise with a focus on staying relevant.
• Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
• Make difficult decisions and take action to resolve issues hindering team effectiveness.
• Model and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Role Summary: 

A career in our Cloud and Digital practice, within Consulting Services, where you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there.  We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever-changing environment. We deliver the technological solutions that organisations need to compete, grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best-in-class technologies and solution sets.   

In joining us, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Digital with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems 

PwC is looking for a SAP Technical Lead to join our Cloud & Digital practice.  A SAP Technical Lead is overall responsible for the design and implementation of the technical environment. 

The ideal candidate would have a strong SAP technical background and 8+ years proven experience in SAP cloud technology enabled business transformation projects and programmes. 

Qualifications / Certifications required: 

Bachelor equivalent: minimum requirement 

8+ years of technical solution specialist experience; consulting experience beneficial 

A thorough understanding of the full software development lifecycle is required.    

Cloud experience recommended 

SAP Certification, preferably SAP BTP 

Understanding of roles and responsibilities between customer, partner and SAP in Cloud projects 

Experience in Agile delivery in SAP projects.

Experience required: 

More than 8 years of SAP implementation and/or technical design experience 

Ability to identify and challenge solution scenarios by taking the business environment into account 

Provide input on the SAP platform and tools 

Execute the agreed solution landscape 

Experience and extensive knowledge of SAP systems, including SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform and the required architecture and infrastructure to support them 

Functional/technical proficiency with at least 4+ full lifecycle SAP implementations 

Understanding of SAP roadmap around Cloud products and how it integrates 

Experience and knowledge of SAP system migration or upgrades 

Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering 

Understanding of IT related technologies that enable digital transformation 

Previous experience in a consulting environment is beneficial 

Experience in Agile delivery in SAP projects.

Responsibilities of role: 

Provide technical leadership for development teams, and define the standards and practices to adhere to 

Manage technical architecture analysis, design, build, test and deployment for the 

Development architecture 

Execution architecture - technical strategy for printing, faxing, batch scheduling etc. 

Operations architecture – backup and recovery, disaster recovery, high availability etc. and 

Infrastructure architecture – Sizing, virtualisation, desktops, networks etc 

Define, manage and assign system administration activities and procedures for the development, quality assurance, test and training systems and assigns ownership of administration activities 

Develop the required policies and procedures to govern the development, quality assurance, testing and training environments 

Create, estimate and plan all work effort relating to SAP Basis activities and technical architecture components 

Work with the Data Management lead to define the data migration strategy for the programme 

Define and manage the sizing of the SAP solution and manage the process with the hardware provider / hosting provider 

Advise on the technical approach for all systems integrating to SAP 

Manage 3rd party dependencies related to the SAP environment 

Plan and manage the SAP systems maintenance schedule 

Participate in the planning and testing of the DR 

Manage all SAP technical changes 

Ensure the implementation, upgrade and support of the latest SAP system versions, where relevant 

Ensure that technical deliverables are delivered to agreed time, cost and quality constraints 

Ensure that developed technical solutions are peer reviewed, formally documented and signed off by business 

Manage the day-to-day operation of the technical team, ensuring appropriate distribution of activities to the team members and alignment on expected deliverables and due dates 

Participate in programme risk and issue management 

Participate in programme Design Authority forums 

Skill sets required: 

• Technical Proficiency: Deep understanding of SAP solutions, SAP architecture principles including Clean Core 

• Cloud Platforms: Expertise in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud 

• Data Integration: Experience with ETL processes and data integration techniques 

• Analytical Abilities: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders 

• Leadership: Ability to lead and mentor teams, providing technical guidance and support 

• Adaptability: Willingness to stay updated with the latest data technologies and adapt to new challenges.

Role related attributes: 

• Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of SAP systems, particularly SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP. 

• Facilitation: Excellent leadership, collaboration and influence skills 

• Problem-Solving: Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues. 

• Experience in large-scale projects and teams and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams 

* Industry experience required: 

Cross-industry experience preferred.

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