Platform Manager, EDT Commercial ERP, SAP (REMOTE)

What you will do:
As our SAP Platform Manager you are responsible for leading the strategy lifecycle management and continuous improvement of Strykers SAP technical platform. You will manage the SAP platform roadmap standards upgrade strategy vendor engagement and technical governance needed to support enterprise business capabilities and digital transformation initiatives.
Additionally you will partner with business process owners enterprise architecture infrastructure cybersecurity SAP functional teams managed service providers and external vendors to ensure SAP platform services are reliable scalable secure and aligned with business priorities.

This is a hybrid role and as such we define hybrid as the ability to go into the office at least one day per week.

• Develop maintain and communicate the SAP technical platform roadmap including standards lifecycle planning upgrade paths architecture principles and technology adoption priorities.

• Lead planning and execution oversight for SAP technical initiatives integrations upgrades migrations patching and system decommissioning.

• Partner with infrastructure cybersecurity enterprise architecture application and business teams to align SAP platform capabilities with business security compliance and technology requirements.

• Evaluate emerging SAP technologies and recommend adoption modernization automation and simplification opportunities that improve platform effectiveness and operational efficiency.

• Lead vendor managed service provider and consulting partner engagement including scope definition delivery oversight issue escalation performance management and alignment to Stryker delivery expectations.

• Provide cost sizing effort estimation and technical input for project landscapes business cases roadmap planning and investment decisions.

• Drive process standardization governance documentation and continuous improvement across platform engineering environment management and release planning.

• Communicate platform strategy risks dependencies decisions and recommendations to IT leadership business stakeholders project teams and external partners.

• Lead coach and develop team members or partner resources setting clear expectations and fostering a culture of accountability collaboration and continuous improvement.

What you need:

Required:

• Bachelors degree required.

• 8 years of information technology experience.

• 7 years of SAP technical platform SAP Basis or SAP infrastructure experience.

• Prior experience supporting at least two SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC implementations migrations upgrades or major technical release events.

• 3 years of experience managing SAP environments supporting more than 1000 users.

Preferred:

• Masters degree in a related field preferred.

• 5 years of experience leading SAP Basis administration or SAP platform operations in a production support model.

• SAP technology certification SAP S/4HANA certification SAP Business Technology Platform certification or cloud certification preferred.

• SAP Certified Technology Associate SAP Certified Technology Professional SAP S/4HANA certification or equivalent SAP technical certification.

• Experience with SAP high availability disaster recovery architecture and recovery testing.

• Experience with SAP system sizing landscape estimation and technical capacity planning.

• Knowledge of data center operations cloud infrastructure network concepts and enterprise monitoring practices.

• Experience supporting regulated global or highly complex enterprise environments.

• Experience presenting status risks decisions and recommendations to director-level stakeholders or above.

• Demonstrated experience in at least five of the following areas: SAP S/4HANA SAP ECC SAP BW SAP PI/PO SAP Basis administration SAP Business Technology Platform SAP Landscape Management SAP high availability architecture SAP integration technologies SAP upgrades SAP migrations SAP Cloud ALM or RISE with SAP.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $118000 - $196700 USD Annual
• US5: $123900 - $206500 USD Annual
• US10: $129800 - $216400 USD Annual
• US15: $135700 - $226200 USD Annual
• US20: $141600 - $236000 USD Annual
• US30: $153400 - $255700 USD Annual