SAP Technical Director - Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Phase 0 technical planning & migration of SAP ECC and BW/4HANA to SAP Private Cloud, including technical remediation, archiving and legacy platform decommissioning.
• Define and own the SAP Technical Roadmap, establishing the foundations for the subsequent technical migration from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA.
• Define and govern the end-to-end SAP Technical Architecture, ensuring alignment across Infrastructure, Cloud Platforms, Security, Integrations, Data Management, Automation, Development & Operational Support.
• Provide technical leadership across SAP Basis, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Integrations, DevOps & Automation.
• Lead multidisciplinary Technical teams, coordinating delivery across enterprise architecture, platform services and SAP application management.
• Manage relationships with SAP & strategic technology partners, ensuring delivery performance, commercial accountability and value.
• Establish technical governance, architecture review processes and effective management of programme risks and dependencies.
• Oversee SAP Private Cloud operational readiness, including high availability, disaster recovery, performance & support arrangements.
• Manage technical budgets, resources & supplier expenditure, working closely with the CIO & senior stakeholders to support the wider transformation roadmap.

Experience Required

• Extensive Senior SAP Technical Leadership experience, ideally as an SAP Technical Director, SAP Transformation Director, SAP Technical Programme Director or equivalent.
• Proven track record of leading complex, enterprise-scale SAP Transformation & Cloud migration programmes.
• Strong technical understanding of - SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC 6.0, BW/4HANA, SAP Private Cloud & SAP Basis.
• Experience defining & governing enterprise SAP Technical Architecture across Infrastructure, Cloud platforms, Security, Integrations, Data Management, Automation, Development & Operational Support.
• Previous experience delivering technical migrations from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA would be highly advantageous - including Technical Architecture, Infrastructure, Integrations & Platform readiness.
• Experience managing SAP Technical teams, strategic Technology Partners, third-party suppliers, programme budgets & technical governance.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement & communication skills - experience operating at CIO & Executive level.
• Manufacturing, Supply Chain or similarly complex Enterprise experience would be advantageous.

The Opportunity

An excellent opportunity to play a pivotal leadership role in a major SAP transformation, delivering a business-critical cloud migration and shaping the technical foundations for a longer-term SAP S/4HANA programme.

Keywords / Relevant Experience

• SAP Technical Director
• SAP Transformation Director
• SAP Programme Director
• SAP Technical Programme Director
• SAP Delivery Director
• SAP Technical Lead
• SAP Enterprise Architect
• SAP Senior Solution Architect
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP ECC 6.0
• ECC6
• ECC to S/4HANA Migration
• SAP BW/4HANA
• SAP Private Cloud
• SAP Cloud Migration
• SAP Basis
• SAP Technical Architecture
• SAP Infrastructure
• SAP Integration
• SAP DevOps
• SAP Cloud Transformation
• SAP Data Migration
• SAP RISE
• RISE with SAP
• SAP ERP Transformation
• SAP Programme Delivery
• SAP Technical Leadership
• SAP Manufacturing
• SAP Supply Chain