Position: Sr. SAP Technical Lead
Location: Remote with some limited travel (client will pay the expenses)
Employment Type: Contract-to-hire
Customer domain: Aerospace & Defence
Position Summary:
The SAP Technical Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership across SAP implementation, upgrade, migration, and support projects. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, functional consultants, architects, and development teams to design, develop, and deliver scalable SAP solutions that align with business objectives.
The SAP Technical Lead serves as the primary technical authority for SAP development activities, integrations, custom enhancements, data migration, and technical architecture. This position leads onsite and offshore teams while ensuring adherence to SAP best practices, quality standards, and project delivery commitments.
This role is ideal for a senior SAP technical professional who can bridge business requirements and
SAP technology while leading complex SAP transformation programs and technical delivery teams
PMMO = Project Manufacturing Management & Optimization prior experience strongly preferred
Key Responsibilities
Technical leadership and solution architecture
- Lead the technical design, architecture, and development of SAP solutions.
- Define technical standards, development frameworks, and best practices.
- Review functional requirements and translate them into technical solution designs.
- Ensure scalability, maintainability, security, and performance of SAP applications.
- Provide technical guidance to developers, technical consultants, and project teams.
SAP development and integration
- Lead development activities across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, Fiori, BTP, ABAP, and related SAP technologies.
- Design and oversee custom developments, enhancements, reports, interfaces, forms, workflows, and conversions.
- Manage integration solutions between SAP and non-SAP applications using APIs, middleware, IDocs, OData, web services, and cloud integration technologies.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure compliance with development standards.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues and provide resolution strategies.
SAP transformation and migration
- Support SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA transformation initiatives.
- Lead technical conversion activities, including custom code remediation, integration redesign, and technical readiness assessments.
- Collaborate with data migration teams on data extraction, conversion, validation, and reconciliation activities.
- Participate in cutover planning, mock conversions, dress rehearsals, and go-live activities.
Project delivery and governance
- Lead technical project workstreams from project initiation through deployment and support.
- Develop technical estimates, project plans, and resource requirements.
- Monitor project progress, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Ensure delivery milestones are achieved on schedule and within budget.
- Provide technical status updates to project leadership and stakeholders.
Team leadership and mentoring
- Lead and mentor SAP technical consultants and developers.
- Support knowledge transfer, training, and skill development initiatives.
- Coordinate activities across onsite, offshore, and vendor teams.
- Promote collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the technical team.
Operational support and optimization
- Provide technical leadership for production support and AMS engagements.
- Drive root cause analysis and issue resolution efforts.
- Identify opportunities for system optimization, automation, and process improvements.
- Support performance tuning and system stability initiatives.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8-12+ years of SAP technical experience.
- 3-6+ years of experience leading SAP technical teams or workstreams.
- Proven experience delivering SAP implementation, migration, or transformation projects.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience working in global delivery environments with onsite and offshore teams.
Required Technical Skills
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP ECC
- ABAP/OO ABAP
- Fiori/UI5
- SAP Gateway
- CDS Views
- AMDP
- OData Services
- Workflow
- Enhancement Framework
- BAdIs
- User Exits
- SmartForms
- Adobe Forms
Integration Technologies
- SAP BTP Integration Suite
- CPI
- REST APIs
- SOAP Web Services
- IDocs
- RFCs
- SAP PI/PO
- Event-driven integrations
Data and Migration
- SAP Migration Cockpit
- SAP Data Services (BODS)
- Data validation and reconciliation
- Data conversion and cutover activities
- Master and transactional data migration
Cloud and Emerging Technologies
- SAP BTP
- SAP Build
- BAS
- SAP AI and automation tools
- Cloud integrations and extensibility
Preferred Qualifications
- SAP S/4HANA implementation or migration experience.
- SAP BTP certification.
- SAP ABAP Development certification.
- Experience with SAP Fiori and UI5 development.
- Experience with Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies.
- Experience supporting presales activities, solution estimates, and proposals.
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