Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.
As a SAP consulting generalist at PwC, you will focus on providing consulting services across various SAP applications to clients, analysing their needs, implementing software solutions, and offering training and support for effective utilisation of SAP applications. Your versatile knowledge will allow you to assist clients in optimising operational efficiency and achieving their strategic objectives.
Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
Role Summary:
A career in our Cloud and Digital practice, within Consulting Services, where you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever-changing environment. We deliver the technological solutions that organisations need to compete, grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best-in-class technologies and solution sets.
In joining us, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Digital with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems
PwC is looking for a SAP Technical Lead to join our Cloud & Digital practice. A SAP Technical Lead is overall responsible for the design and implementation of the technical environment.
The ideal candidate would have a strong SAP technical background and 8+ years proven experience in SAP cloud technology enabled business transformation projects and programmes.
Qualifications / Certifications required:
Bachelor equivalent: minimum requirement
8+ years of technical solution specialist experience; consulting experience beneficial
A thorough understanding of the full software development lifecycle is required.
Cloud experience recommended
SAP Certification, preferably SAP BTP
Understanding of roles and responsibilities between customer, partner and SAP in Cloud projects
Experience in Agile delivery in SAP projects.
Experience required:
More than 8 years of SAP implementation and/or technical design experience
Ability to identify and challenge solution scenarios by taking the business environment into account
Provide input on the SAP platform and tools
Execute the agreed solution landscape
Experience and extensive knowledge of SAP systems, including SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform and the required architecture and infrastructure to support them
Functional/technical proficiency with at least 4+ full lifecycle SAP implementations
Understanding of SAP roadmap around Cloud products and how it integrates
Experience and knowledge of SAP system migration or upgrades
Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
Understanding of IT related technologies that enable digital transformation
Previous experience in a consulting environment is beneficial
Experience in Agile delivery in SAP projects.
Responsibilities of role:
Provide technical leadership for development teams, and define the standards and practices to adhere to
Manage technical architecture analysis, design, build, test and deployment for the
Development architecture
Execution architecture - technical strategy for printing, faxing, batch scheduling etc.
Operations architecture – backup and recovery, disaster recovery, high availability etc. and
Infrastructure architecture – Sizing, virtualisation, desktops, networks etc
Define, manage and assign system administration activities and procedures for the development, quality assurance, test and training systems and assigns ownership of administration activities
Develop the required policies and procedures to govern the development, quality assurance, testing and training environments
Create, estimate and plan all work effort relating to SAP Basis activities and technical architecture components
Work with the Data Management lead to define the data migration strategy for the programme
Define and manage the sizing of the SAP solution and manage the process with the hardware provider / hosting provider
Advise on the technical approach for all systems integrating to SAP
Manage 3rd party dependencies related to the SAP environment
Plan and manage the SAP systems maintenance schedule
Participate in the planning and testing of the DR
Manage all SAP technical changes
Ensure the implementation, upgrade and support of the latest SAP system versions, where relevant
Ensure that technical deliverables are delivered to agreed time, cost and quality constraints
Ensure that developed technical solutions are peer reviewed, formally documented and signed off by business
Manage the day-to-day operation of the technical team, ensuring appropriate distribution of activities to the team members and alignment on expected deliverables and due dates
Participate in programme risk and issue management
Participate in programme Design Authority forums
Skill sets required:
Role related attributes:
Cross-industry experience preferred.
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
No
Job Posting End Date
June 15, 2025
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