Director, Enterprise Applications – SAP Platform

Director Enterprise Applications SAP Platform

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At Cepheid we are passionate about improving health care through fast accurate molecular diagnostic systems and tests. As a member of our team youll get to make an immediate measurable impact on a global scale within an environment that fosters career growth and development. Our mission drives us to develop groundbreaking solutions for the worlds most complex health challenges. Together we bring MORE change to the world.

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The Director Applications Platform leads the SAP technical platform team responsible for reliable delivery operations and continuous improvement of Cepheids SAP application landscape. This role provides day-to-day leadership across SAP Basis SAP BTP services ABAP development standards Fiori enablement integrations SAP security enablement automation and DevOps practices. The Director partners with Enterprise Applications leadership architecture infrastructure cybersecurity compliance and vendor teams to execute approved roadmaps maintain platform stability support SAP transformation initiatives and advance Clean Core automation and AI-enabled productivity practices within established enterprise governance.

This position reports to the Enterprise Applications leader and is part of the Enterprise Applications organization. This is a remote role based in the USA.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead execution of the SAP technical platform roadmap for S/4HANA BTP integrations development frameworks automation and DevOps capabilities in alignment with Enterprise Applications priorities.
• Implement SAP best practices Clean Core guidelines platform standards and cloud technology adoption plans that support approved transformation objectives.
• Manage SAP Basis and platform operations SAP BTP services ABAP and Fiori delivery standards SAP integration support SAP Security and GRC technical enablement automation and AI-enabled productivity initiatives.
• Maintain standards for source control release management deployment practices monitoring traceability auditability compliance and release quality across SAP delivery and support processes.
• Collaborate with business functional architecture infrastructure security compliance and vendor teams to deliver secure stable scalable and compliant platform services.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field with 10 years of Enterprise Applications or SAP technical delivery experience.
• 5 years leading SAP technical teams managed service providers engineering partners or platform delivery teams.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA SAP BTP SAP Basis ABAP development Fiori SAP integrations SAP Security and GRC DevOps and SDLC governance.
• Experience applying SAP operating model standards Clean Core governance technical standards development frameworks application lifecycle management release management and technical compliance practices.
• Experience supporting technology budgets vendor performance operational reliability platform monitoring major incident response SOX ITGC validation and audit-readiness activities in regulated environments.

Travel Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally as needed to support program delivery business engagement partner coordination audits training or operational readiness.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Hands-on exposure to SAP RISE Private Cloud SAP Clean Core governance SAP Joule AI-assisted development cloud platform services API architecture or enterprise automation.
• Experience using or improving DevOps operating practices with tools such as Jira GitHub SAP Cloud ALM Rev-Trac Control-M or related delivery and operational platforms.
• Experience improving observability proactive operations automation incident reduction root-cause analysis operational health dashboards and continuous-improvement practices for business-critical enterprise applications.

Cepheid a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Cepheid we believe in designing a better more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Cepheid can provide.

The annual salary range for this role is $190000 - $215000 This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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