Competency Centre Lead - ERP Technical

Job Description

The Role
• A bachelors degree in computer science or IT (or equivalent) or business administration or applicable work experience.
• Candidate must have 15+ years of solid SAP Development, technical solution architecture design experience with a capability to lead a team of consultants.
• Identify the required scale of the resources, securing them and assigning them to individual projects, ensuring our best resources work on our most challenging projects. It is expected active recruitment of talent is needed as well. Key interface towards the ITMs / Program Managers within all lines of business to meet the demands
• Prioritize and allocate resources. Manage utilization.
• Ensure enough skilled and experienced IT resources are available to deliver SAP BTP experience in implementation & delivery.
• Create the optimum mix of internal and external resources and the desired geographical balance between the IT Hubs and other business proximate locations; accountable to ensure we insource key CCM roles with Shell staff.
• Line and functional management of the resource pool within the capability center, particularly focusing on talent development, staff planning and LoB intimacy.
• Perform all aspects of staff management GPAs, IDPs, management of succession talent pipeline to ensure the next generation of leaders are being identified, coached and mentored - and all other associated line management responsibilities
• Defining the sourcing strategy and executing with one of the agreed suppliers in collaboration with the Delivery Managers, Product Line Managers, and Product Managers in Business Interface team and key stakeholders including feedback and performance management.
• Ensure cost recovery through optimized resource planning.
• Drive implementation efficiency and effectiveness across the pilots and future projects to minimize cost, increase speed of implementation and maximize value delivery.
• Implement a standard delivery model that focuses on the adoption of standard processes and the creation of value from them.
• Pro-actively identify AND propagate common, reusable approaches across implementations (e.g. change management, process adoption and exploitation) ensuring these reflect the approaches and best practices of other Functional Excellence groups.
• Define and maintain standards, methodologies, tools and knowledge repositories along with contributing to functional excellence in terms of standards, methods and tools.
• Ensure lessons learned from market service implementations are identified, applied and acted upon.
• Reskilling based on supply/demand for respective Capability Center as applicable.
• Capable to evaluate solutions and directing enhancements and implementing solutions for performances and ensure standards in design and implementation.
• Provide technical support and lead SAP ABAP team including establishing technical design, architecture, code standards on getting requirements from functional and natural teams.
• Plan on project requirements, design, developments, and testing.
• Manage Critical issues to handle in a quick turnaround time to ensure business continuity by providing technical fixes
• Resource planning for all project activities and manage to deliver all RICEFS on given project timelines.
• Design and develop SAP technical architecture requirements, specifications, Proof of concepts to ensure the system is meeting accurate business/stakeholder needs.
• Work within a group of technical consultants (ABAP, BTP) and coordinate work with other module leads/consultants
• Take lead of S/4 HANA transformation and upgrade requirements and overall road map preparation and execution
• Act as a quality gate review peers coding/developments ensuring adherence to development guidelines, Performance, code quality standards, review existing customizations and functional specification for technical feasibility.
• Proficient in mentoring resources (staff and contractor), support them in technical challenges in terms of identifying the right technology or architecting the design.
• Possess innovative mindset to propose effective technical designs/solutions to business problems.
• Candidate must possess a strong combination of technical and analytical skills and will architect, design and develop robust SAP solutions in close collaboration with business analysts and business stakeholders.
• Candidate should have a strong technical ability in SAP along with stakeholder management skills, great communication skills, and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
• Provides technical advisory and support on matters related to the SAP ABAP programming of SAP modules and third-party interfaces.

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