Core Platforms Engineering Team Lead (m/f/d)

Liebherr Group; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive compensation

Flexible and hybrid working model

Continuous learning and development

Meal vouchers

Life and accident insurance

Private health insurance options

Descripción de la vacante

Liebherr Group is seeking a Core Platforms Engineering Team Lead in Madrid. This role involves managing core platforms and leading a specialized team to ensure stability and security of enterprise applications.

Candidates should have extensive experience with SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Azure, alongside strong leadership skills. The position offers a competitive benefits package and a flexible work model.

Formación

• 10+ years of experience in SAP and enterprise platform environments.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA architecture.
• Experience managing external partners and service delivery.

Responsabilidades

• Own and manage core platforms and ensure stability and performance.
• Lead a team of platform specialists and ensure alignment.
• Drive optimization and monitor platform performance.

Conocimientos

Leadership and people management

SAP S/4HANA expertise

Microsoft Azure knowledge

Change management processes

Analytical problem-solving

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Educación

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Information Technology or Engineering

Herramientas

JIRA

Confluence

Cloud ALM

Descripción del empleo

Join Liebherr, a global leader in engineering and manufacturing, as we advance our digital transformation journey. We are looking for a motivated Core Platforms Engineering Team Lead (m/f/d) to play a key role in our newly established SAP & Digital Center in Madrid.

Creating passion: your responsibilities

• Own and manage Liebherr’s core platforms, including the SAP S/4HANA landscape and Azure-based environments supporting Microsoft Dynamics 365, ensuring stability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Define and enforce platform standards, governance frameworks, and best practices, ensuring alignment with Liebherr’s global architecture and transformation programs.
• Lead and develop a team of platform specialists and technical architects across SAP, Azure, testing, release management, and authorization domains, fostering a high-performing and collaborative environment.
• Oversee change and release management processes, ensuring controlled, high-quality, and timely deployments across systems and landscapes.
• Ensure the availability and proper operation of testing environments, supporting integration testing, user acceptance testing, and overall delivery readiness.
• Drive robust authorization and access management practices, ensuring compliance with security standards and audit requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Development & Integration teams, Solution Architects, consultants and program leadership to ensure alignment between platform capabilities and delivery needs.
• Manage external partners and service providers, ensuring service quality, performance, and alignment with Liebherr standards.
• Monitor platform performance, risks, and dependencies, proactively identifying improvement opportunities and ensuring continuous optimization.
• Support transformation programs (S/4HANA, Dynamics 365, SAP MDG) by providing a stable and scalable platform foundation aligned with business and IT requirements.
• Travel (up to 30%) to Liebherr sites worldwide to support platform alignment and transformation activities.

Contributing your strengths: your qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in SAP and enterprise platform environments, including strong exposure to SAP S/4HANA landscapes.
• Proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or technical operations teams in complex, multinational environments.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA landscape architecture, including system environments, transport management, and platform operations (e.g., SAP Basis concepts).
• Solid knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure, and their role in supporting enterprise applications such as Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Experience with change and release management processes, testing lifecycle management, and authorization concepts within large-scale system landscapes.
• Proven ability to operate in large transformation programs, understanding the interaction between platforms, development, integration, and business processes.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to build, develop, and guide high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences and align across multiple domains.
• Experience working with external partners and managing service delivery in a structured and performance-driven manner.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured, pragmatic, and results-oriented mindset.
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Cloud ALM is a plus.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken); additional languages (e.g., German) are an advantage.
• Willingness to travel internationally (up to 30%) as required by project work.

Our commitment to you: your benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package that recognizes your expertise.
• Flexible and hybrid working model.
• Creative freedom and responsibility to shape processes and solutions in our global transformation.
• Continuous learning and development with tailored training and certification opportunities.
• Meal vouchers.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Option to include a premium private health insurance package as part of the flexible remuneration.
• A safe, stable and international workplace within a trusted family business that invests in people.

Location

Liebherr IT Shared Service Centre Ibérica, S.L.
Parque Norte. Alamo building Serrano Galvache, 56
28033 Madrid
Spain (ES)