Position: Sr. SAP Technical Lead
Location: Remote with some possible travel
Employment type: Contract to hire
End-customer domain: Aerospace and Defense
Position Summary:
The SAP Technical Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership across SAP S/4 HANA Brownfield Migration projects, along with implementation, upgrade, migration, and support projects at this A&D end client. 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 S/4 HANA technology while leading complex SAP transformation programs and technical delivery teams
MUST HAVE: 2-3 prior S/4 HANA Brownfield Migrations
Nice to Have: PMMO (Project Manufacturing Management & Optimization)
Key Responsibilities:
Technical leadership, solution architecture, and deep understanding of code remediation.
- 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:
- Has done at least 2-3 Brownfield implementations to S/4HANA
- Hands on ABAP skills and hands-on remediation code work
- Leadership skills and ability to deal with a strong personality who is the customer
- Good at being very organized, solid in documentation, and who plans things out and can take the lead but still be hands-on with the technical work.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10-15+ years of SAP technical experience.
- 6- 8+ 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 Technologies
- 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
- AP 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.
Leadership Competencies
- Technical leadership
- Strategic thinking
- Solution architecture
- Team development and mentoring
- Executive communication
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Client engagement
- Problem solving and decision making
- Project governance
Preferred Industry Experience
- Manufacturing
- Aerospace and defense
- Utilities
- Energy
- Consumer products
- Life sciences
- Retail
- Public sector
