SAP COE Director & Architecture Lead

OLDCASTLE INFRASTRUCTURE, INC.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Medical & dental

Group retirement savings

Wellness programs

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Oldcastle Infrastructure, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Director for the SAP Center of Excellence to lead a team of SAP functional resources across OTC, PTP, RTP, and PTC within CRH's IPG. You will own the functional platform strategy, governance, and end-to-end delivery in a multi-module SAP landscape.

The role requires 15-20+ years in digital transformation in manufacturing, strong governance, architecture, testing, and cross-functional leadership; hybrid office in Sandy Springs, GA.

Qualifications

• 15-20+ years of experience in Digital Transformation programs in manufacturing.
• 7+ years of managing COE and/or ERP Digital Transformation Delivery teams.
• Deep hands-on and leadership experience with SAP S/4HANA functional delivery, architecture governance, testing, release management, and post-go-live platform sustainment; experience with adjacent enterprise platforms and project management tools preferred.
• Large-scale SAP implementation and deployment experience, ideally in a multi-site manufacturing environment with complex integrations and business change impacts.
• Strong understanding of SAP functional integration across core process areas and connected enterprise platforms, with ability to identify cross-process impacts, risks, dependencies, and control points.
• Working knowledge of SAP controls and compliance considerations, including auditability, data integrity, security, segregation of duties, financial controls, and operational risk management.
• Executive stakeholder management and decision facilitation skills, with the ability to resolve competing business priorities and drive alignment across process, technical, data, and operations teams.
• Strong SAP quality management discipline, including test strategy, defect triage, readiness criteria, cutover validation, hypercare metrics, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Ability to translate business outcomes into functional platform priorities, ensuring SAP investments support process adoption, operational efficiency, controls, and measurable value realization.
• Experience governing SAP SI, vendor, and managed services partners, including delivery quality, scope management, performance metrics, escalation management, and accountability for business outcomes.
• Process improvement knowledge gained while working in an organization undergoing a significant operational culture shift; Creation and improvement of processes, metrics, and data quality adoption.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational influencing skills; ability to communicate simply, drive cross-functional improvements, and maintain a collaborative style.

Responsibilities

• Own SAP functional platform strategy, roadmap, and governance model.
• Serve as the functional platform owner for SAP, ensuring solution decisions support enterprise process consistency, scalable template design, clean core principles, integration integrity, and business value realization.
• Partner with Business Process leaders to translate requirements into measurable transformation objectives across OTC, PTP, RTP, and PTC.
• Ensure SAP functional design and change decisions consider process controls, auditability, data integrity, security, segregation of duties, compliance requirements, and financial/operational risk.
• Own functional intake, prioritization, and release planning for the Center of Excellence to balance business enhancements, defect remediation, compliance needs, platform stability, and delivery capacity.
• Lead the SAP COE architect team and SAP QA/testing team, providing direction, standards, capacity planning, performance management, and delivery accountability.
• Manage functional architects and analysts responsible for HLD, FSD, configuration standards, process blueprints, and solution documentation.
• Define and enforce SAP architecture governance, including fit/gap analysis, design authority, cross-process tradeoff resolution, standardization, integration alignment, security considerations, and compliance with SAP Activate methodology.
• Own functional integration governance across SAP processes and connected systems, ensuring upstream and downstream impacts are understood, documented, tested, and aligned before design or release decisions are approved.
• Own the SAP QA strategy, including test planning, regression testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect triage, quality metrics, release readiness criteria, and continuous improvement of testing practices.
• Implement and monitor the remaining SAP deployment waves from a functional perspective, ensuring readiness across design, build, test, data and integration dependencies, cutover, and hypercare readiness.
• Partner with PMO, Business Process, OCM, Data, Optimization, Process Excellence, technical delivery, and support teams to drive integrated planning and risk mitigation.
• Provide executive-level visibility to delivery health, quality trends, readiness risks, and recommended actions.
• Ensure documentation, training inputs, process flows, test scripts, and knowledge transfer materials are complete and transitioned to OCM and support teams.
• Govern SI and vendor delivery across functional design, build, validation, testing, deployment readiness, defect resolution, and hypercare to CRH standards.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA

COE leadership

Governance

Stakeholder mgmt

QA leadership

Cross-functional

Architecture governance

Change management

Risk management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, engineering, or technical related discipline

Tools

SAP SD

SAP LE

SAP PP

SAP MM

SAP PS

SAP FI

SAP CO

SAP Activate

Job description

Oldcastle Infrastructure, Inc. is seeking a seasoned Director for the SAP Center of Excellence to lead a team of SAP functional resources across OTC, PTP, RTP, and PTC within CRH's IPG. You will own the functional platform strategy, governance, and end-to-end delivery in a multi-module SAP landscape.

The role requires 15-20+ years in digital transformation in manufacturing, strong governance, architecture, testing, and cross-functional leadership; hybrid office in Sandy Springs, GA.