Senior Technical Program Manager – MES & Enterprise Integration

TrustNet Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TrustNet Technologies seeks an experienced Senior Technical Program Manager to lead the MES and Enterprise Integration workstream during a multi-year SAP S/4HANA transformation. You will own delivery, budget, vendors, and integrations from start to finish.

You will manage complex IT programs, balance cross-functional needs, and ensure successful integration across SAP and MES ecosystems, while coordinating with global sites and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• PMP, PgMP, or PRINCE2 certification.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run complex IT projects from start to finish, managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, and risk.
• Build and maintain project plans, milestones, and critical paths across workstreams, vendors, sites, and releases.
• Run project governance, including status reports, risk and issue logs, change control, and steering committee updates.
• Lead cross-functional teams and hold internal teams and vendors accountable for their commitments.
• Use Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid methods as each project requires.
• Oversee end-to-end integrations between SAP and other enterprise applications, including MES.
• Coordinate connectivity, interface development, and integration readiness throughout each project.
• Act as the main point of contact for all integration work.
• Manage dependencies across applications, sites, releases, and infrastructure so manufacturing keeps running without disruption.
• Own and communicate the multi-year MES roadmap, balancing global standards with site needs, business value, and capacity.
• Lead MES and integration readiness through everything: design, build, SIT, UAT, validation, cutover, go-live, hypercare, handover to support.
• Ensure environments, connectivity, access, monitoring, and test/master data are ready before testing or deployments.
• Define and manage testing strategies, including integration and smoke testing.
• Keep master and transactional data in sync across systems.
• Track risks, issues, decisions, and regulatory impacts; drive issues to closure.
• Maintain environment and deployment plans and resolve conflicts before operations are affected.
• Coordinate resolution of integration issues affecting operations, testing, or production.
• Lead root cause analysis and drive corrective actions with IT teams and vendors.
• Monitor integration performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Build and manage the annual budget for integration activities.
• Plan resources for releases, testing cycles, deployments, and post-go-live support.

Skills

IT project management

SAP S/4HANA

MES integration

Budget management

Vendor management

Waterfall/Agile/hybrid

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering or related field

PMP, PgMP, or PRINCE2 certification

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Job description

Senior Technical Program Manager – MES & Enterprise Integration - United States (Remote)

Employment type: 12-month contract-to-permanent

Eastern time working hours . (work with US Client )

C1 English is require

The Senior Technical Program Manager – MES & Enterprise Integrations is a strong IT project manager who will lead the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) workstream of a multi-year SAP S/4HANA transformation. This person will own delivery, budget, vendors, and integrations from start to finish,. Experience with MES or manufacturing technology is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities Key Responsibilities Plan and run complex IT projects from start to finish, managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, and risk.
• IT Project and Program Management Build and maintain project plans, milestones, and critical paths across workstreams, vendors, sites, and releases.
• Run project governance, including status reports, risk and issue logs, change control, and steering committee updates.
• Lead cross-functional teams and hold internal teams and vendors accountable for their commitments.
• Use Waterfall, Agile, or hybrid methods as each project requires.
• Integration Management Oversee end-to-end integrations between SAP and other enterprise applications, including MES.
• Work with business teams, IT, and vendors to agree on integration requirements and plans.
• Coordinate connectivity, interface development, and integration readiness throughout each project.
• Act as the main point of contact for all integration work.
• Manage dependencies across applications, sites, releases, and infrastructure so manufacturing keeps running without disruption.
• Own and communicate the multi-year MES roadmap, balancing global standards with site needs, business value, and capacity.
• Delivery, Testing, and Deployment Lead MES and integration readiness through every phase: design, build, system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), validation, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and handover to support.
• Make sure environments, connectivity, access, monitoring, and test and master data are ready before each testing, cutover, or deployment event.
• Define and manage testing strategies, including integration and smoke testing.
• Keep master and transactional data in sync across systems.
• Track risks, issues, decisions, and regulatory impacts across systems and releases; expose early and drive issues to closure.
• Maintain environment and deployment plans and resolve conflicts before they affect operations.
• Operational Support and Incident Management Coordinate the resolution of integration issues that affect operations, testing, or production.
• Lead root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions with IT teams and vendors.
• Monitor integration performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Budget and Resource Management Build and manage the annual budget for integration activities.
• Track spending against budget and flag variances, risks, and savings opportunities.
• Plan resources for releases, testing cycles, deployments, and post-go-live support.

Qualifications

• Qualifications Required Qualifications Education and certification Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.
• PMP, PgMP, or PRINCE2 certification.

Required Skills

• Experience 10+ years of IT project or program management on large, complex technology projects such as ERP, enterprise applications, or systems integration.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC.
• Experience leading digital transformation or ERP modernization programs.
• Experience in regulated industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, or life sciences.
• Experience leading large software releases, testing programs, and deployments.
• Proven ownership of scope, schedule, budget, vendors, and teams, with a track record of delivering on time and on budget.
• Knowledge and skills Strong command of project management methods (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid) and tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, or Smartsheet.
• Working knowledge of integration technologies and tools such as APIs, middleware, EDI, API management, and cloud platforms (for example, SAP BTP or AWS).
• Solid understanding of data management and keeping data in sync across systems.
• Knowledge of supply chain applications and processes.
• Ability to lead global and site teams, influence without direct authority, and make clear trade-off decisions.
• Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills.
• Required Skills Strong command of project management methods (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid) and tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, or Smartsheet.
• Working knowledge of integration technologies and tools such as APIs, middleware, EDI, API management, and cloud platforms (for example, SAP BTP or AWS).
• Solid understanding of data management and keeping data in sync across systems.
• Knowledge of supply chain applications and processes.
• Ability to lead global and site teams, influence without direct authority, and make clear trade-off decisions.
• Excellent communication and executive stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

• Preferred Skills Nice to Have Experience with manufacturing technology, especially Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) platforms (for example, Werum PAS-X, Siemens Opcenter, Rockwell FactoryTalk, or SAP Digital Manufacturing), and with integrating them with ERP.
• What You'll Brin Strong leadership and the ability to influence in a matrixed organization.
• Hands-on project management style that brings structure and predictability to complex delivery.
• A balance of strategic planning and hands-on execution.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset.
• Employment type: 12-month contract-to-permanent.