Senior Technical Project Management Specialist (mfd)
Job Summary
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Summary & Role Information:
As a Senior Technical Project Mgmt Specialist for technical infrastructure projects you plan coordinate and drive complex projects and workstreams within larger product platform or infrastructure initiatives. You take ownership of project outcomes ensure transparency across stakeholders and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver technically robust solutions on time within scope and in alignment with quality security and operational standards.
In this role you act as a senior contributor for complex technical and business topics bringing structure ownership and a strong delivery mindset to initiatives involving infrastructure compute services virtualization and operational lifecycle activities.
What Youll do:
Plan manage and drive complex technical projects programs or workstreams from initiation to delivery.
Create and maintain detailed project plans schedules estimates resource plans risk assessments and status reports.
Coordinate technical infrastructure lifecycle activities including planning implementation operational handover lifecycle changes and retirement of services or assets.
Drive planning and execution transparency using project and task management tools such as Jira.
Monitor progress against milestones scope dependencies risks and budget constraints; define and follow up on mitigation actions.
Coordinate cross-functional collaboration with product engineering operations architecture data and vendor-facing teams.
Ensure alignment with technical standards architectural frameworks best practices and operational governance requirements.
Facilitate meetings workshops decision rounds and stakeholder alignments; document decisions actions and follow-ups.
Provide regular concise and meaningful status updates to managers project stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Support technical trade-off discussions related to feasibility scalability performance reliability and operational impact.
Identify and drive process improvements to increase project quality delivery efficiency transparency and stakeholder satisfaction.
Build and maintain strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders contributing to common ground and effective cooperation.
What you bring:
Degree in (Business) Informatics Business Administration Engineering Computer Science or a related field.
Several years of professional experience in IT technical project management infrastructure project coordination or a comparable role with increasing responsibility.
Proven experience managing complex projects or larger workstreams independently.
Strong project management skills including planning coordination risk management stakeholder management and progress tracking.
Basic technical understanding of Linux KVM virtualization concepts and infrastructure or compute environments.
Ability to work with technical teams and understand infrastructure-related dependencies constraints and lifecycle requirements.
Strong driver mentality: you proactively move topics forward remove blockers and keep teams focused on outcomes.
Excellent organizational and coordination skills with a structured reliable and solution-oriented working style.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain processes dependencies risks and decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfortable working in cross-functional international and matrixed environments.
Experience with Jira for planning tracking and coordinating project activities.
English: fluent spoken and written.
Nice to Have:
Familiarity with infrastructure lifecycle management compute operations or server/service lifecycle processes.
Basic understanding of modern IT architectures cloud environments APIs or software development lifecycle concepts.
Experience with agile ways of working such as Scrum or Kanban.
Project management certifications such as PMP PRINCE2 Scrum Master or comparable certifications are an advantage.
Experience working with external vendors service providers or managed service environments.
Experience with reporting KPIs dashboards or analytics
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database analytics intelligent technologies and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide we are purpose-driven and future-focused with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries people or platforms we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP you can bring out your best.
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Requisition ID: 457868 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
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