For an international retail and wholesale client, a highly experienced SAP S/4HANA Technical Integration Lead is sought to provide technical leadership for a complex international SAP rollout program. The organization is deploying an existing global SAP S/4HANA template to additional countries and markets, with approximately 80% of the design being reused.
The primary complexity lies in country-specific legal and tax requirements, data migrations, and the integration of approximately 30 to 40 local, regional, and global satellite applications per country. The objective is to ensure the successful technical delivery of international SAP S/4HANA rollouts by coordinating integrations, data migrations, testing readiness, and technical dependencies across SAP, non-SAP, and legacy environments.
What you do
- Provide technical end-to-end oversight of SAP S/4HANA, ECC, infrastructure, data, and integration workstreams.
- Coordinate data migration and data load activities between program teams, source system owners, and integration teams.
- Manage technical dependencies, escalations, and issue resolution.
- Lead the integration of SAP with local, regional, and global satellite systems.
- Ensure seamless interaction between SAP, non-SAP, and legacy applications.
- Challenge and govern the external system integrator regarding solution quality, technical completeness, assumptions, and realistic planning.
- Ensure end-to-end testing readiness across interfaces, legacy systems, data, environments, and application owners.
- Identify technical delivery risks early and establish clear ownership.
- Translate complex technical dependencies into actionable decisions and measures.
- Support rollout planning from a technical perspective.
- Act as the central technical contact for program management, architects, developers, application owners, and delivery teams.
What they ask
- Extensive experience in senior technical roles within large SAP transformation programs.
- Proven experience from at least 4 to 5 SAP S/4HANA implementations, upgrades, or ECC-to-S/4HANA migrations.
- Broad technical expertise in SAP architecture, integration, interfaces, data migration, infrastructure, and system landscapes.
- Strong understanding of complex SAP and non-SAP environments including legacy systems.
- Hands-on experience with international multi-country SAP rollouts.
- Experience with template-based rollouts and localization requirements.
- Experience coordinating complex data migration and integration activities.
- Experience managing and challenging large system integrators.
- Ability to work effectively with architects, developers, application owners, program managers, and senior business stakeholders.
- Fluent English communication skills.
- Fluent Dutch or French and at least basic knowledge of the other language.
Preferences.
- Pragmatic and results-oriented mindset.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to maintain an end-to-end perspective while engaging in technical details.
- Ability to prioritize, escalate, and make decisions under pressure.
Technology.
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP ECC
- SAP and non-SAP integrations
- Legacy systems
- Data migration
- International rollout landscape
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