SAP Technical Director - Contract in North London
Posted by Mackenzie Jones IT
£900 – £1,000 a day
North London · Contract
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:
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