SAP Technical Lead at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Qualifications / Certifications required: 

• Bachelor equivalent: minimum requirement 
• 8+ years of technical solution specialist experience; consulting experience beneficial 
• A thorough understanding of the full software development lifecycle is required.
• Cloud experience recommended 
• SAP Certification, preferably SAP BTP 
• Understanding of roles and responsibilities between customer, partner and SAP in Cloud projects 
• Experience in Agile delivery in SAP projects.

Experience required: 

• More than 8 years of SAP implementation and/or technical design experience 
• Ability to identify and challenge solution scenarios by taking the business environment into account 
• Provide input on the SAP platform and tools 
• Execute the agreed solution landscape 
• Experience and extensive knowledge of SAP systems, including SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform and the required architecture and infrastructure to support them 
• Functional/technical proficiency with at least 4+ full lifecycle SAP implementations 
• Understanding of SAP roadmap around Cloud products and how it integrates 
• Experience and knowledge of SAP system migration or upgrades 
• Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering 
• Understanding of IT related technologies that enable digital transformation 
• Previous experience in a consulting environment is beneficial 
• Experience in Agile delivery in SAP projects.

Responsibilities of role: 

• Provide technical leadership for development teams, and define the standards and practices to adhere to 
• Manage technical architecture analysis, design, build, test and deployment for the 
• Development architecture 
• Execution architecture - technical strategy for printing, faxing, batch scheduling etc. 
• Operations architecture – backup and recovery, disaster recovery, high availability etc. and 
• Infrastructure architecture – Sizing, virtualisation, desktops, networks etc 
• Define, manage and assign system administration activities and procedures for the development, quality assurance, test and training systems and assigns ownership of administration activities 
• Develop the required policies and procedures to govern the development, quality assurance, testing and training environments 
• Create, estimate and plan all work effort relating to SAP Basis activities and technical architecture components 
• Work with the Data Management lead to define the data migration strategy for the programme 
• Define and manage the sizing of the SAP solution and manage the process with the hardware provider / hosting provider 
• Advise on the technical approach for all systems integrating to SAP 
• Manage 3rd party dependencies related to the SAP environment 
• Plan and manage the SAP systems maintenance schedule 
• Participate in the planning and testing of the DR 
• Manage all SAP technical changes 
• Ensure the implementation, upgrade and support of the latest SAP system versions, where relevant 
• Ensure that technical deliverables are delivered to agreed time, cost and quality constraints 
• Ensure that developed technical solutions are peer reviewed, formally documented and signed off by business 
• Manage the day-to-day operation of the technical team, ensuring appropriate distribution of activities to the team members and alignment on expected deliverables and due dates 
• Participate in programme risk and issue management 
• Participate in programme Design Authority forums