SAP NS2 Director of Operations SAP Business Data Cloud Platform
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Herndon, VA - USA
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Job Summary
We help the world run better
At SAP we keep it simple: you bring your best to us and well bring out the best in you. Were builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce and we need your unique talents to help shape whats next. The work is challenging but it matters. Youll find a place where you can be yourself prioritize your wellbeing and truly belong. Whats in it for you Constant learning skill growth great benefits and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
NS2 Company Description
SAP is the global market leader for business software and related services. SAP National Security Services Inc. (SAP NS2) is an independent U.S. subsidiary of SAP. At SAP NS2 we leverage best-in-breed technologies engineered by SAP to help protect the lives assets and information of Americans. We deliver SAP solutions with specialized levels of security and support designed to meet the requirements of U.S. national security and critical-infrastructure customers.
SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is a fully managed SaaS platform that unifies data analytics and business processes. It brings together capabilities including SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud BDC Foundation Services BDC Cockpit and integrations with services such as SAP HANA Cloud and SAP Databricks to provide a trusted data foundation for analytics intelligent applications and reliable AI.
This position requires access to customer data. U.S. citizenship is required; SAP NS2 does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
All internal candidates must have manager approval to transfer.
As the Director of Operations for the SAP Business Data Cloud Platform you will provide strategic and operational leadership for the availability resilience security scalability and customer experience of NS2s BDC platform.
You will lead the development and execution of the platforms operating model across a complex multi-component SaaS environment. This includes establishing operational standards service-level objectives observability practices incident and problem-management processes release readiness capacity management customer provisioning and disaster-recovery preparedness.
This leader will build and guide a high-performing distributed 24x7x365 operations organization and serve as a key partner to Engineering Product Security Compliance Customer Success FinOps hyperscaler providers and SAP product and operations teams. You will translate strategic platform objectives into disciplined operational executionensuring BDC delivers reliable secure and mission-ready services to NS2 customers.
What Youll Bring
Deep expertise leading operations for highly available multi-tenant cloud or SaaS platforms with demonstrated success delivering availability scalability security and operational reliability across AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud or comparable environments.
Proven success building and leading distributed high-performing Cloud Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineering Platform Engineering or Operations teams supporting 24x7x365 services.
Demonstrated ability to define and govern SLAs SLOs KPIs operational controls incident-management processes disaster-recovery exercises and root-cause analysis programs.
Technical fluency with modern cloud-native and DevOps practices including containers Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Terraform CloudFormation configuration management and automation tooling.
Working knowledge of modern enterprise data and analytics ecosystems such as SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud SAP HANA Cloud Databricks data integration data products and data-governance concepts.
Working knowledge of cloud-security best practices including encryption secrets management identity and access management vulnerability management audit logging and security incident response.
Experience operating in regulated environments and partnering with security and compliance organizations to meet frameworks such as FedRAMP SOC 2 HIPAA GDPR DoD requirements or comparable standards.
Exceptional communication leadership problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to communicate complex operational issues clearly to technical teams executives customers and partners.
A strategic mindset coupled with a practical hands-on approach to execution prioritization and continuous improvement.
What Youll Build
Lead the end-to-end operations strategy for SAP Business Data Cloud ensuring secure reliable scalable and high-performing delivery across BDC services dependent cloud platforms and third-party integrations.
Build and lead a high-performing distributed 24x7x365 operations organization with clear service ownership escalation paths on-call readiness operational procedures and customer communications.
Establish a mature operational framework including SLAs SLOs KPIs service-health reporting monitoring alerting logging runbooks incident management problem management and root-cause analysis.
Drive platform resilience through tested backup recovery business-continuity disaster-recovery capacity-planning and performance-management practices.
Partner with Engineering Product Security Compliance FinOps SAP hyperscalers and other technology providers to ensure production readiness reliable releases secure operations and coordinated issue resolution.
Advance automation across deployment provisioning monitoring remediation configuration management and operational reporting to reduce manual effort and improve service quality.
Ensure operational practices support NS2 security compliance auditability and data-protection requirements including identity and access management encryption vulnerability remediation and security-event monitoring.
Drive continuous improvement in platform reliability customer experience cloud-cost efficiency and operational maturity through data-driven decision-making and long-term technology and capacity planning.
Where You Belong
You will join a collaborative mission-focused environment where cloud reliability security and innovation are central to how we serve our this role you will sit at the intersection of platform strategy and operational executionleading the teams and operating practices that enable SAP NS2 to deliver SAP Business Data Cloud with confidence.
You will work closely with Engineering Product Security Compliance Customer Success FinOps SAP and external technology partners to shape the future of a secure scalable and resilient data and analytics platform for U.S. national security and critical-infrastructure customers.
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.
We win with inclusion
SAPs culture of inclusion focus on health and well-being and flexible working models help ensure that everyone regardless of background feels included and can run at their best. At SAP we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.
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Requisition ID: 459626 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Management Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
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About Company
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