Senior Director, SAP Technical Lead

Role Summary

The SAP Technical Lead is responsible for end-to-end technical leadership across our company's Human Health SAP global landscape, including SAP application development, Basis administration, Cloud Ops and SAP security. This role ensures system stability, performance, scalability, and compliance, while driving engineering best practices, automation, and AI aligned with business objectives and priorities. The ideal candidate combines deep SAP technical expertise with strong leadership, stakeholder management, and a pragmatic approach to governance.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap for SAP, aligning with enterprise architecture, business strategy, and release plans.
• Define and enforce technical standards, development guidelines, and DevOps practices across the SAP technology stack.
• Establish governance for transport management, code review and quality, security controls, and technical change management (ChaRM/SolMan, SAP Cloud ALM and technical environment landscape).
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Security to ensure adherence to architectural principles, cyber guidelines and regulatory requirements (GxP, SOX, as applicable), and audit readiness.
• Bring innovation, new technology and modern ways of working, such as Agile.
• Define a technical roadmap that prioritizes AI and latest technology.
• Define and execute a roadmap to modernize our solutions and applications.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SAP and S4 HANA.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Master’s degree in business or technology is preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive SAP technical experience with demonstrated leadership in SAP related roles.
• Experience with various SAP systems and technologies, including but not exclusive to core ERP (ECC and S4 HANA), MDG, ATTP, GTS, GRC, BTP, GBT, SLT, Solution Manager, Cloud ALM, standard SAP integrations and connectors with SaaS SAP applications such as Ariba.
• Deep hands-on expertise with SAP Development: ABAP, Fiori/UI5, BTP, ATC, performance tuning.
• SAP Basis: S/4HANA/ECC administration, HANA DB, system copies/refresh, transport management, performance/HA/DR, Solution Manager/Cloud ALM.
• SAP Security: role/authorization design, GRC Access Control, SoD management, audit/compliance, HANA security.
• Experience with S/4HANA transformations or major upgrades, including cutover and data migration coordination.
• Experience with SAP RISE.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS), networking, and security fundamentals as they apply to SAP.
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes and enterprise change management.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.
• Experience with life sciences / pharmaceutical industry.

Skills

• Asset Management, Benefits Management, Consulting, Leadership, Management System Development, Product Management, Requirements Management, Role Design, SAP Basis Administration, SAP Development, SAP HANA Administration, SAP Management, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Security Administration, SAP Systems, Security Controls, Stakeholder Communications, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Leadership, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Team Management, Technical Leadership

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Master’s degree in business or technology is preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Travel Requirements: 10%
• Relocation: Domestic
• VISA Sponsorship: Yes
• Hybrid Work Arrangement: Hybrid