SAP HANA Administrator

Role : SAP HANA Admin / SAP IT Product Manager

Exp : 4- 14 years

Notice : Immediate joiners

Location : Pune

Work Mode : Hybrid

Job Responsibilities :

As Technical M&A Platform Manager, the person in this role will support all technical aspects of M&A Systems implementations and programmes. This role will have accountability for reviewing technical solutions and vendor impact assessments proposed by vendors.

Specific Responsibilities:

1. M&A Strategy Integration:

• Collaborate with IT leadership to understand the company's M&A strategy and objectives.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive plan to integrate EVO solutions into newly acquired entities.

1. Product Management:

• Oversee the entire technical aspects, ensuring alignment with business goals and industry best practices.
• Provide expertise on SAP integration and ABAP programming.

1. Project Leadership:

• Lead and manage end-to-end technical aspects of M&A projects, ensuring timelines and budgets are met.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, FIN, SCM and HR, to drive project success.

1. Stakeholder Engagement:

• Engage with key stakeholders to understand their requirements and concerns related to technical aspects.
• Provide regular updates to leadership on project progress, challenges, and successes.

1. Change Management:

• Develop and execute change management strategies to ensure a smooth transition during M&A activities.
• Conduct training sessions and provide ongoing support to end-users.

1. Vendor Management:

• Work closely with SAP vendors to stay informed about updates, enhancements, and new features.
• Evaluate and recommend additional IT solutions that align with the company's evolving needs.

Expectations:

We are looking for a trusted and motivated IT Technical Product manager who can effectively develop and deliver the Portfolio vision, consulting the business and is passionate for innovation.

The candidate will:

• have deep technical, hands-on knowledge of SAP integration development using SAP PI including use of ABAP proxies IDOCs and RFCs. Experience in designing a PI solution based on a functional requirement.
• have experience working on SOAP and REST APIs
• have good understanding of cloud solutions and new technologies.
• have a understanding of SAP functional areas.
• Have a minimum of 4 to 14 years of experience.
• deliver projects and initiatives in an agile/SAFe manner driving a product backlog with business alignment, so that we ensure delivery across matrix teams and challenge vendors to address our priorities.
• serve as the key technology's point of contact to ensure effective support, advice and expertise on the design and best practice to exploit value from the product(s) the individual leads.
• produce and review end to end architecture for Mergers, acquisition, divestiture, and Joint ventures.
• lead a team of internal and external suppliers to deliver complex M&A projects.
• ensure compliancy with security, architecture, privacy/GDPR, SOX and audit controls.

Key accountabilities:

• They will assist and advise on the target architecture vision, evaluating and supporting the prioritisation of business requirements, translating them into designs, principles, changes, and non-functional requirements.
• Represent Technical IT towards Business functions, System Integrators, M&A Projects, and current Live Markets solutions
• Manage the cross Functional requirements impacting EVO, touchpoints with other EVO and local market systems
• Review and approval of Global and Local Technical enhancement and improvements, including further integrations & data migration approach
• Responsible for designing and developing state-of-the-art reusable solutions, implement new technologies to drive global scalability, revenues and cost efficiencies throughout Vodafone Group
• Key contributor for the innovation of IT systems
• Represent Technical cross functions team for everything related to M&A
• Manage the cross Functional review of requirements covering all technical aspects
• Manage the validation process for functional requirements from a technical perspective
• Review and approval of Global/Local Technical Enterprise Architecture, including further integrations & Data Migration approach

General skills, knowledge and experience:

Essential

• Deep knowledge of SAP PI / PO / CPI / APIs
• Knowledge of ABAP proxies, Idocs, RFCs
• Ability to translate customer needs into technical requirements.
• Understanding of integration architecture and patterns including BTP technologies
• Experience in managing a sophisticated customer environment, where Tools and Automation are key to enable the continuous transformation/evolution of the organization and the constant tension to efficiency.
• Capability in managing technical aspects of large projects.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Can do attitude.

Desired

• SAP Techno-Functional knowledge
• ABAP Knowledge
• Understanding of Agile (SAFe ) and Waterfall project management methodologies