Technical Service Manager, Enterprise Cloud Services

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The Role

We are looking for an accomplished Technical Service Manager (TSM), As a key member of SAP Enterprise Cloud Service (ECS), you will be contributing to SAP's Global strategy of helping customers with adoption of SAP S/4HANA on their path to the Intelligent Enterprise.

The TSM acts as a trusted technical advisor in the safeguarding and optimization of customer investments into SAP ECS. TSM will work as a team with Customer Delivery Managers (CDMs) and ECS internal service delivery to serve and delight our customers, by providing quality services throughout their entire lifecycle.

This is a customer-facing role focused on Large & Strategic Customers where you will be part of the Enterprise Cloud Services delivery organization.

What you'll do

• Primary contact for the customer regarding technology discussions.
• Own the technical discussions with the customer and act as the orchestrator of experts to obtain expertise from the SAP delivery organization as required.
• Ownership & detailed understanding of the customer landscape managed within ECS & understand interdependencies between systems (both within ECS and beyond).
• Support the CDM and the TechOps teams for execution of the service delivery plan and calendar.
• Analyze customer technical requirements and organize / co-ordinate experts from ECS Delivery team and drive those topics to resolution to the satisfaction of the customer.
• Present the intricacies of the private offering, technical details, and engagement model to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the customer or SAP services teams to build customer-specific cloud roadmaps that cover topics around Infrastructure Architecture, Technical Managed services, security, and integration.
• Guide customers on all technical aspects like Business Continuity, Security & Compliance, Networks, etc.
• Assess customer security and network requirements to make sure the SAP security architecture framework can meet customer requirements.
• Conduct Technical & operational reviews (monthly) to measure the progress against defined Cloud architecture &roadmap; establish and drive resolution plans to resolve issues and problems to completion.
• Support the migration roadmap together with partners, System Integrators, and or SAP Professional Services.
• Comprehensive knowledge on S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration path, methodology and tools.
• Understanding of various SAP cloud solutions and integration scenarios of SAP systems with SCP, Ariba, Successfactors etc.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management
• 5 years of experience with SAP Basis administrative duties REQUIRED
• 5 years of customer-facing SAP Technical Consulting experience
• 5 years of solution design, enterprise architecture, and or SAP implementation
• High proficiency in customer communications and presentations is required
• High proficiency in the SAP product portfolio, offerings, and industry solutions
• Good understanding of SAP solutions (releases, platform interdependencies, etc.)
• Good understanding of operational aspects (Application or Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment
• Good understanding of capabilities of at least one Hyperscale Clouds (AWS; MS Azure or GCP)
• Willingness to undertake customer-related travel on short notice

Nice to have

• SAP NetWeaver, OS/DB migration, SAP HANA, TOGAF certifications are plus
• Experience and certifications with IaaS Providers (AWS, MS Azure, or GCP) are an advantage
• SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills would be very helpful but not mandatory
• Cloud security including Cyber Security, Encryption, and key management knowledge is preferred

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 69,600 - 161,300 USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 385963 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 20% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid