Senior Director, SAP Technical Lead

** Job Description
**** The Opportunity
** 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, 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.
** What will you do in this role
** Strategic Leadership and Governance
* Own the technical roadmap for SAP, aligning with enterprise architecture, business strategy, and release plans.
* Define and enforce technical standards, development guidelines, and Dev Ops practices across our company's SAP technology stack.
* Establish governance for transport management, code review and quality, security controls, and technical change management (ChaRM/Sol Man, 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.

SAP Development Oversight
* Lead ABAP and SAP development teams (including Fiori, BTP, Mobile applications and any other technology required to support our SAP tech stack landscape).
* Ensure best practices for review and approval of technical designs, ensuring standards, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
* Drive code quality through standards, peer reviews supported by AI, static analysis tools (e.g., ATC/SCI), unit testing, and automated pipelines.
* Oversee custom enhancements, interfaces (IDoc/APIs), conversions, and reports; minimize technical debt and promote clean core concepts.
* Guide modernization efforts:
Fiori enablement, S/4

HANA simplification, clean core strategy, and extensibility via BTP.Basis Administration Leadership
* Ensure reliable operations of our SAP full landscape: installation, configuration, upgrades, SPS/FPs, infrastructure updates, HANA upgrades, and patching.
* Oversee system performance, capacity planning, HA/DR, backup/restore, and monitoring (Cloud ALM, Onapsis).
* Manage landscapes across on-premise, cloud (Hyperscaler), RISE, SaaS and hybrid environments, including transport paths, client strategy, and system refreshes.
* Optimize HANA database performance and housekeeping; oversee job scheduling and workload management.
* Ensure proper OSS notes implementation, and vendor coordination with SAP Support.
* Lead best in class technical operations in collaboration with SAP and RISE operations.

SAP Security Management Oversight
* Ensure proper SAP security architecture: role design (GRC-compliant), S/4

HANA/Fiori authorization concepts and clean segregation of duties (SoD).
* Oversee GRC Access Control, emergency access, and periodic access reviews.
* Implement and monitor security baselines, logging, and threat detection (e.g., Security Audit Log, Read Access Logging, HANA auditing, Onapsis).
* Ensure remediation of audit findings, vulnerability management, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Operations, Reliability, and Dev Ops
* Establish CI/CD for SAP based on internal toolsets and standards, automated testing, and transport orchestration.
* Implement observability: metrics, logs, traces; define SLAs for availability and performance.
* Drive incident, problem, and change management, including root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.
* Plan and lead cutovers, releases, and environment refreshes; manage downtime windows and stakeholder communications.

Program and Stakeholder Management
* Collaborate with SAP functional leads, and SAP Platform operations to prioritize backlog and deliver roadmaps.
* Provide technical estimates, risk assessments, and resource planning; manage vendor partners and statements of work.
* Communicate complex technical topics in business terms; present status, risks, and mitigation plans to leadership.

Team Leadership and Development
* Build and mentor a high-performing team of SAP technical experts, including developers, Basis administrators, security analysts and Cloud Ops.
* Define roles, responsibilities, and career paths; foster a culture of innovation, modern technology, AI first approach, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
* Standardize documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing.
* Build internal capabilities in your Tech Hubs.
** What Should you have:
*** 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…