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Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled SAP Project Manager / Application Architect to lead the end-to-end delivery and technical architecture of complex SAP transformation programs. In this role, you will be responsible for managing project delivery while defining scalable, secure, and maintainable application solutions across SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, application development, and integration landscapes.
You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, functional consultants, developers, integration teams, product owners, SAP, and third-party vendors to deliver high-quality solutions across design, build, testing, deployment, and Hypercare within a fast-paced delivery environment.
Roles & Responsibilities:
SAP Project Manager
- Lead end-to-end delivery of SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, integration, upgrade, migration, and application-development projects.
- Develop and manage project plans, milestones, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and delivery commitments.
- Coordinate activities across business, functional, development, integration, infrastructure, testing, and vendor teams.
- Manage onshore, offshore, contractor, and third-party resources to achieve agreed scope, quality, and timelines.
- Facilitate governance meetings and provide clear project status, risk, issue, and dependency updates to senior stakeholders.
- Drive issue resolution, recovery planning, release readiness, go-live, and Hypercare activities.
SAP Application Architect
- Define and govern SAP application architecture across SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP landscapes.
- Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solution designs and implementation approaches.
- Lead architecture and technical-design workshops with client stakeholders, SAP teams, and external vendors.
- Ensure solutions align with SAP clean-core principles, extensibility guidance, security requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.
- Review solution designs, technical specifications, development estimates, integration patterns, and code quality.
- Identify opportunities to reduce customisation and adopt standard, side-by-side, or cloud-based extension approaches.
Technical Delivery & Team Leadership
- Provide technical leadership across SAP ABAP, ABAP on HANA, ABAP Cloud, CDS Views, AMDP, OData, RAP, Fiori Elements, and SAP BTP application development.
- Guide development and integration teams on application design, custom extensions, interfaces, performance, and development standards.
- Oversee technical delivery, task allocation, resource planning, effort estimation, design reviews, and quality assurance.
- Provide direction and hands-on support for complex, critical, or technically challenging requirements.
- Mentor technical leads and developers and build capability across distributed delivery teams.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Act as the primary bridge between business requirements, project delivery, and SAP technical architecture.
- Build strong working relationships with client stakeholders, program leadership, SAP, partners, and third-party vendors.
- Communicate complex technical concepts, architecture decisions, delivery risks, and options clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Manage cross-team dependencies, expectations, design decisions, and delivery commitments.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience leading enterprise SAP implementation, transformation, integration, upgrade, or migration programs.
- Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA application architecture, technical delivery, and development governance.
- Hands-on experience with SAP BTP and modern SAP extensibility and integration approaches.
- Technical expertise in one or more of the following: ABAP, ABAP on HANA, ABAP Cloud, CDS, AMDP, OData, RAP, Fiori Elements, or SAP BTP development.
- Experience managing large, geographically distributed, multidisciplinary delivery teams.
- Strong project management skills covering planning, estimation, resourcing, risk management, issue resolution, governance, testing, deployment, and Hypercare.
- Excellent stakeholder-management, client-facing, communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- SAP architecture, development, SAP Activate, SAP BTP, cloud, or project-management certifications are an added advantage.
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