SAP Project Manger

Role Overview

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager (TPM) who will own full execution delivery of a legacy-to-cloud modernization program migrating SAP MII manufacturing reporting to a modern data and application platform. This is a hands-on technical delivery role, not a pure coordination role: the TPM is directly accountable for on-time, on-budget delivery of the entire program and must have real SAP MII development experience — enough to open the existing MII workbench, read the transactions/BLS/query templates directly, and form an independent view of what is actually implemented today.

This hands-on background is what lets the TPM validate the delivery team''s understanding of the legacy system, catch misinterpretations early, and give informed recommendations on migration approach — rather than relying entirely on the team''s own assessment of the legacy code.

The TPM will bridge business stakeholders, the architecture team, and delivery engineers — translating scope into an executable plan, managing risk and dependencies, and holding the delivery team accountable to milestones.

Key Responsibilities

1. End-to-End Delivery Ownership

• Own full execution delivery of the program end-to-end — discovery through hypercare/knowledge transfer

• Be accountable for schedule, budget, quality, and scope across all delivery stages

• Escalate and resolve cross-team blockers (data, application, infrastructure, business) quickly

• Own the delivery plan, RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), and status reporting to steering committee/stakeholders

2. SAP MII & Legacy System Expertise

• Bring hands-on SAP MII development background (not just conceptual knowledge) — able to personally read and review existing transactions, BLS, query templates, and dashboard/screen logic to understand what is actually implemented today

• Independently assess the current MII implementation, work with Architects to design the new application

• Provide technical recommendations on migration approach, sequencing, and risk based on direct review of the existing MII codebase, not just secondhand summaries

• Partner with technical SMEs and architects to validate complexity scoring, migration wave sequencing, and functional parity requirements against legacy MII screens

• Understand shop-floor/plant integration concepts (MES, historian data, real-time tag data) well enough to plan around their constraints

• Represent legacy-system risk and nuance in planning discussions with architects and business stakeholders, grounded in first-hand knowledge of the existing system

3. Full Stack Project & Delivery Management

• Manage delivery across the full technical stack: data ingestion/platform, middleware/APIs, and front-end/application layers

• Review code written by developers across the stack (data pipelines, APIs/middleware, front-end) to verify quality, catch issues early, and confirm work matches the agreed design — not just track status secondhand

• Hands-on and personally write code when needed — to unblock the team, patch a critical issue, or validate a fix — rather than relying solely on developers to resolve every technical blocker

• Coordinate across data engineers, full stack/application developers, QA, and architecture to keep parallel workstreams aligned

• Plan and track wave-based/phased migration delivery, including UAT, reconciliation, and incremental production deployment

• Manage environment, release, and deployment planning across data and application components

4. Stakeholder & Governance Management

• Serve as primary point of contact for business and IT stakeholders on delivery status

• Run governance cadences (steering committee updates, program reviews, delivery team stand-ups)

• Manage RACI, resourcing, and dependency tracking across client and delivery teams

• Coordinate UAT sign-off, hypercare, and knowledge transfer to ensure clean handover/ownership transition

5. Risk, Scope & Change Management

• Proactively identify delivery risk (technical, resourcing, scope) and drive mitigation

• Manage change requests and scope variance against the agreed baseline

• Ensure quality gates (parity validation, reconciliation vs. legacy system) are met before go-live at each wave

Required Skills

Core Expertise

• Proven experience owning full execution delivery of a technical program (not just tracking/coordinating one)

• Hands-on SAP MII development experience — able to personally read, trace, and reason about existing transactions, BLS, query templates, and screen/dashboard logic, not just describe MII concepts at a high level

• Demonstrated ability to independently verify a delivery team''s technical understanding of legacy code and to form and defend an independent recommendation

• Able to review developers'' code across the stack and, when necessary, personally write or fix code — this is a working technical role, not purely oversight

• Experience managing full stack projects: data/backend and front-end/application delivery together, not one in isolation

Delivery & Program Management

• Strong command of project management fundamentals: planning, RAID management, resourcing, status reporting

• Experience with wave-based/phased migration delivery models

• Experience managing UAT, reconciliation/parity validation, and cutover processes

Technical Fluency (Years of Experience Expected)

• SAP MII development (transactions, BLS, query templates, Illuminator) — 5+ years hands-on

• SQL — 5+ years

• Manufacturing/plant systems: MES integration, historian/real-time tag data (e.g., Wonderware) — 3+ years

• Modern data platforms — Microsoft Fabric (Eventhouse/KQL, Lakehouse) or equivalent (Databricks, Snowflake) — 2+ years

• APIs/middleware (.NET, Node, or similar) — 2+ years

• Modern front-end frameworks (React or equivalent) — 2+ years

Tools (Years of Experience Expected)

• Project/program management tooling — Jira, Azure DevOps, or MS Project — 5+ years

• CI/CD and release management (Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar) — 2+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent project management certification

• SAP MII/ME or Digital Manufacturing certification

• Prior experience delivering a legacy ERP/manufacturing-system-to-cloud modernization program

• Experience managing delivery teams using AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code)

Experience Required

• 12+ years of overall software industry experience

• 8+ years total experience, spanning hands-on SAP MII development and project/delivery management

• 5+ years as a hands-on SAP MII developer (transactions, BLS, query templates) before/alongside moving into delivery leadership — this should not be purely a PM background with secondhand MII exposure

• Demonstrated experience owning delivery of full stack projects (data + application layers) end-to-end