[Remote] SAP Technical Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wawa, Inc. is seeking an SAP Technical Manager responsible for architecting, designing, developing, delivering, and operating SAP-based solutions. This role leads the SAP technical team, ensuring high quality and performance of the SAP landscape while collaborating closely with functional teams and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Anticipate business and technical needs, aligns SAP architecture with organizational goals, and drives long-term technical SAP roadmap
- Demonstrate deep technical knowledge of SAP technologies, modules, interfaces, performance tuning, and integrations
- Define and drive technical approaches within the solution scope: coding standards, integration patterns, extensions, and custom objects
- Provide recommendations for technical performance optimization, sizing, and deployment methods
- Escalate major architecture or platform decisions to the technology leadership for approval or alignment
- Build, mentor, and empowers the technical team; delegates effectively; fosters a culture of continuous learning, accountability and excellence
- Engage with business stakeholders, functional leads, project managers and technical teams
- Own end-to-end delivery of the SAP technical workstreams from design through build, integration, testing, deployment and support, ensuring timelines, budget and quality goals are met
- Identify technical risks and dependencies early, drive mitigation strategies, adapt to evolving requirements as appropriate
- Focus on reliability, performance, scalability and maintainability of the SAP environment
- Drive continuous improvements, standards, automation, and DevOps best practices
- Drive the technical roadmap for SAP (e.g., enhancements, integrations, custom developments, AI capabilities, and emerging SAP technologies)
- Lead the technical architecture and design of SAP landscape, ensuring alignment with business strategy and enterprise-wide objectives
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of SAP S/4HANA customizations, enhancements, and integrations
- Architect and code complex ABAP programs, including BADIs, BAPIs, enhancements, Fiori/UI5 extensions, and BTP jobs
- Create and enforce SAP development standards, perform code reviews, and ensure solution performance, scalability, and maintainability
- Oversee technical integration across modules and systems, leveraging SAP BTP, APIs, and middleware solutions (e.g., SAP PO/CPI)
- Perform functional configuration within core S/4HANA modules (e.g., FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, EWM, or others based on expertise)
- Translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications
- Support solution design workshops, process mapping, testing cycles, and defect resolution
- Ensure solution alignment with SAP standard functionality and S/4HANA best practices to minimize custom footprint
- Serve as the primary liaison between business process owners, functional consultants, and technical developers
- Support project managers in defining scope, timelines, and resource needs for technical workstreams
- Drive adherence to development governance, release management, and transport control processes
- Provide mentorship and direction to junior ABAP developers and functional analysts
- Partner with enterprise architecture and data governance teams to ensure solution consistency and data integrity
- Support operational teams during production support, problem resolution, and change management
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field preferred (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in SAP technical roles (development, architecture, integration) with at least 3-5 years in a leadership or lead-technical role
- Proven experience designing and delivering end-to-end SAP S/4HANA solutions—from blueprint to production support
- Strong understanding of S/4HANA data models, Fiori architecture, and extensibility concepts (In-App and Side-by-Side)
- Demonstrated ability to work across functional and technical boundaries to deliver integrated solutions
- Strong technical expertise with SAP technologies (e.g., ABAP/Objects, SAP NetWeaver, SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Fiori/UI5, IDocs, BAPIs, ALE, PI/PO/Cloud Integration) and experience with full lifecycle SAP implementations (including upgrades, migrations and integrations)
- Solid experience of SAP technical architecture, system landscape, performance tuning, data migration, integration and technical operations
- Proven track record of leading and mentoring technical teams, managing offshore/on-site resources, and delivering high-quality solutions on time and within budget
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills: ability to engage with business sponsors, functional teams and technical staff, translating complex technical topics into business language
- Experience with Agile, Scrum and/or hybrid delivery methodologies; competent in technical planning, estimation and tracking
- Strong problem-solving skills, technical risk management, determination to deliver in a dynamic environment
- SAP certification(s)
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., SAP Cloud Platform)
- DevOps tools and practices
- Ability to adapt to evolving SAP technology stack
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