SAP Technical Director

Staffline; Manchester, Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffline is seeking an SAP Technical Director to lead the path clearing and migration to SAP Private Cloud for the ECC and BW/4HANA estate. Hybrid work arrangement across UK sites in Hertfordshire, Manchester, and Southampton.

You will set the long-term SAP technical roadmap, enable a future S/4HANA migration, and coordinate with SAP and key partners to maximise value from third parties. Reporting to the CIO, you will guide Enterprise Architecture, SAP Basis, Platform Services and DevOps to

Qualifications

• Experience leading SAP transformation programmes.
• Budget and resource planning experience; third-party spend.
• Strong stakeholder management at senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical strategy for SAP ECC to Private Cloud migration.
• Own the end-to-end SAP technical roadmap toward S/4HANA.
• Advise on SAP technologies, architecture, dependencies, risks.
• Build relationships with SAP and delivery partners; ensure value realisation.
• Govern SAP technical architecture across infra, cloud, security, data, automation.

Skills

SAP transformation

Budget & resource planning

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Title: SAP Technical Director
Job Type: Contract/Interim
Work Arrangements: Hybrid
Industry: FMCG/IT
Job Location: Hertfordshire/Manchester/Southampton
Rate/Salary: Negotiable

Job Role - SAP Technical Director

Reporting to the CIO (Chief Information Officer) the SAP Technical Director shall lead the path clearing and migration to SAP Private Cloud of the companies SAP ECC and BW/4 single instance estate. Once the systems are operating in SAP Private Cloud and all archive and decommissioning steps are completed, the next project is to launch is the technical migration from SAP ECC to S/4HANA.

The role will also manage the relationship with SAP and key technical partners, ensuring maximum value is extracted from 3rd parties to achieve the objectives.

The SAP Technical Director shall work closely with IT Leadership peers and an internal team of architects, business partners, SAP functional specialists, platform specialist, Risk and Security, Internal Controls and SAP DevOps, Integrations and Automation groups, ensuring all components of IT delivery are aligned to enable the Catalyst roadmap

Duties - SAP Technical Director

• Lead the technical strategy, planning and delivery of the SAP ECC and BW/4HANA migration to SAP Private Cloud, ensuring successful completion of all Phase path-clearing activities, migration execution, archive remediation, and legacy platform decommissioning.
• Own the end-to-end SAP technical roadmap, establishing the foundations required for the subsequent migration from SAP ECC to S/4HANA and ensuring technical decisions support the long-term business transformation agenda.
• Act as the senior IT technical representative within the transformation programme, providing expert guidance on SAP technologies, architecture, dependencies, risks, opportunities, resource requirements and delivery sequencing.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with SAP and key delivery partners, holding suppliers accountable for outcomes, commercial commitments, service quality and value realisation.
• Define and govern the SAP technical architecture, ensuring alignment between infrastructure, cloud platforms, security, integrations, data management, automation, development and operational support functions.
• Provide leadership and direction to internal technical teams including Enterprise Architecture, SAP Basis, Platform Services, Security, DevOps, Integration, Automation and Application Management teams.
• Establish and oversee programme governance, technical decision-making forums and architecture review processes to ensure risks, issues and dependencies are proactively identified and managed.
• Ensure all technical solutions comply with enterprise security standards, risk controls, regulatory requirements, audit obligations and internal control frameworks.
• Lead technical planning and readiness activities for SAP Private Cloud operations, including environment strategy, high availability, disaster recovery, performance management, monitoring and operational support models.
• Drive technical due diligence and decision-making relating to SAP product roadmaps, cloud capabilities, custom code remediation, infrastructure modernisation and future S/4HANA adoption.

Experience/Qualifications - SAP Technical Director

• Demonstrable successful background in SAP transformation programmes
• Experience managing budgets, resource plans and third part expenditure.
• Excellent stakeholder management at all levels

Candidates who are currently a SAP Director, Director of SAP solutions, Director of SAP technology, SAP Delivery Director, Director of Enterprise Applications, Director of ERP Technology, SAP Chief Architect, SAP Technology Architect Lead, SAP Transformation Director, SAP Implementation