Location: Dallas, TX
Rate: $70/hr on Corp to Corp
Duration: Long term
Mode of interview: One Virtual and One face to face
Mode of Job: 5 Days onsite
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced SAP HANA Technical Project Manager with 12+ years
of IT experience to lead end-to-end SAP HANA/S/4HANA implementation, migration,
upgrade, and technical transformation initiatives.
The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of SAP technical expertise, project
leadership, requirements management, solution coordination, technical
troubleshooting, and stakeholder management. The candidate should be capable of
working closely with business stakeholders while providing technical direction to SAP
engineering and implementation teams.
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end SAP HANA/S/4HANA implementation, migration, upgrade, and
transformation projects.
Gather, analyze, validate, and document business and technical requirements.
Translate business requirements into technical solutions and coordinate with SAP
functional and technical teams.
Drive project planning, estimation, resource allocation, milestones, dependencies,
and delivery.
Lead cross-functional teams covering SAP HANA, Basis, ABAP, functional,
integration, infrastructure, security, data migration, and testing.
Provide technical leadership and support for solution design, architecture
discussions, and technical decisions.
Drive data migration, system migration, integrations, testing, cutover,
deployment, go-live, and hypercare activities.
Review technical designs, implementation approaches, estimates, and project
deliverables.
Manage technical risks, issues, dependencies, defects, and change requests.
Provide technical troubleshooting and support for HANA database, performance,
integration, data, and application-related issues.
Coordinate SIT, UAT, performance testing, cutover rehearsals, production
deployment, and stabilization.
Work directly with business users to clarify requirements and ensure solutions meet
business objectives.
Coordinate with SAP, system integrators, vendors, infrastructure teams, and
onshore/offshore delivery teams.
Provide regular project status, technical updates, RAID reporting, and executive-level
communication.
Must-Have Skills
15+ years of IT experience with strong SAP experience.
Strong hands-on experience with SAP HANA and/or S/4HANA.
Proven experience leading SAP implementation, migration, upgrade, or
transformation projects.
Strong understanding of SAP HANA architecture, database concepts, Basis,
ABAP, integrations, and data migration.
Experience with ECC to S/4HANA migration/conversion is highly preferred.
Strong requirements gathering and business-to-technical translation skills.
Experience managing SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and production
support/hypercare.
Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
Experience managing global onshore/offshore technical teams.
Excellent stakeholder communication and leadership skills.
Good-to-Have Skills
SAP Activate methodology.
SAP BTP / Integration Suite / CPI.
SAP Fiori / UI5.
SAP BW/4HANA.
HANA performance tuning and optimization.
SAP RISE / cloud migration experience.
Experience with REST, SOAP, OData, IDoc, and RFC integrations.
PMP and/or SAP certification.
Ideal Candidate
A hands-on technical leader who can own the project from requirements solution
design implementation/migration testing cutover go-live production
stabilization, while effectively managing business stakeholders and technical delivery
