Job Description
Day Rate: £900 - £1,000 Day Rate
Contract Duration: 6 - 12 Months Location: North London / Hertfordshire - Hybrid Working Must be Eligible to work in the UK
SAP Technical Director required to join a leading organisation undertaking a major, multi-year SAP transformation programme. Reporting directly to the CIO, the successful candidate will lead the technical strategy, architecture & delivery of a significant SAP Cloud migration. Establish the foundations for a subsequent technical migration from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA.
This is a high-profile leadership opportunity requiring extensive SAP technical expertise, proven SAP Transformation Delivery experience and the ability to engage with Senior Executives & Strategic Technology Partners.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the Phase 0 technical planning & migration of SAP ECC and BW/4HANA to SAP Private Cloud, including technical remediation, archiving and legacy platform decommissioning.
- Define and own the SAP Technical Roadmap, establishing the foundations for the subsequent technical migration from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA.
- Define and govern the end-to-end SAP Technical Architecture, ensuring alignment across Infrastructure, Cloud Platforms, Security, Integrations, Data Management, Automation, Development & Operational Support.
- Provide technical leadership across SAP Basis, Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Integrations, DevOps & Automation.
- Lead multidisciplinary Technical teams, coordinating delivery across enterprise architecture, platform services and SAP application management.
- Manage relationships with SAP & strategic technology partners, ensuring delivery performance, commercial accountability and value.
- Establish technical governance, architecture review processes and effective management of programme risks and dependencies.
- Oversee SAP Private Cloud operational readiness, including high availability, disaster recovery, performance & support arrangements.
- Manage technical budgets, resources & supplier expenditure, working closely with the CIO & senior stakeholders to support the wider transformation roadmap.
- Extensive Senior SAP Technical Leadership experience, ideally as an SAP Technical Director, SAP Transformation Director, SAP Technical Programme Director or equivalent.
- Proven track record of leading complex, enterprise-scale SAP Transformation & Cloud migration programmes.
- Strong technical understanding of - SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC 6.0, BW/4HANA, SAP Private Cloud & SAP Basis.
- Experience defining & governing enterprise SAP Technical Architecture across Infrastructure, Cloud platforms, Security, Integrations, Data Management, Automation, Development & Operational Support.
- Previous experience delivering technical migrations from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA would be highly advantageous - including Technical Architecture, Infrastructure, Integrations & Platform readiness.
- Experience managing SAP Technical teams, strategic Technology Partners, third-party suppliers, programme budgets & technical governance.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement & communication skills - experience operating at CIO & Executive level.
- Manufacturing, Supply Chain or similarly complex Enterprise experience would be advantageous.
An excellent opportunity to play a pivotal leadership role in a major SAP transformation, delivering a business-critical cloud migration and shaping the technical foundations for a longer-term SAP S/4HANA programme.
Keywords / Relevant Experience:
SAP Technical Director, SAP Transformation Director, SAP Programme Director, SAP Technical Programme Director, SAP Delivery Director, SAP Technical Lead, SAP Enterprise Architect, SAP Senior Solution Architect, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC 6.0, ECC6, ECC to S/4HANA Migration, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Private Cloud, SAP Cloud Migration, SAP Basis, SAP Technical Architecture, SAP Infrastructure, SAP Integration, SAP DevOps, SAP Cloud Transformation, SAP Data Migration, SAP RISE, RISE with SAP, SAP ERP Transformation, SAP Programme Delivery, SAP Technical Leadership, SAP Manufacturing, SAP Supply Chain. London, Hertfordshire, Home Counties, UK. T6/MN/