Sap Hana Technical Project Manager

Position: SAP HANA Technical Project Manager

About the Role
We're looking for a seasoned SAP HANA Technical Project Manager with 15+ years in IT to steer full-cycle SAP HANA / S/4HANA programs, from new implementations and migrations to upgrades and technical transformations. This role blends deep SAP technical know-how with strong project leadership: you'll work side by side with business stakeholders while setting the technical direction for SAP engineering and implementation teams.

What You'll Do

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Own SAP HANA / S/4HANA implementation, migration, upgrade, and transformation projects from start to finish.
• Run project planning, estimates, resourcing, milestones, dependencies, and delivery.
• Lead cross-functional teams spanning SAP HANA, Basis, ABAP, functional, integration, infrastructure, security, data migration, and testing.
• Work with SAP, system integrators, vendors, infrastructure teams, and onshore/offshore delivery teams.
• Share regular project status, technical updates, RAID reports, and executive-level updates.

Requirements & Solutioning

• Gather, analyze, validate, and document business and technical requirements.
• Turn business needs into technical solutions, working with SAP functional and technical teams.
• Work directly with business users to clarify requirements and make sure solutions meet business goals.
• Guide solution design, architecture discussions, and key technical decisions.
• Review technical designs, implementation approaches, estimates, and project deliverables.

Migration, Testing & Go-Live

• Drive data and system migration, integrations, testing, cutover, deployment, go-live, and hypercare.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, performance testing, cutover rehearsals, production rollout, and stabilization.

Risk & Technical Support

• Manage technical risks, issues, dependencies, defects, and change requests.
• Troubleshoot HANA database, performance, integration, data, and application issues.

What You Bring

• 15+ years in IT with a strong SAP background.
• Deep hands-on experience with SAP HANA and/or S/4HANA.
• Track record of leading SAP implementation, migration, upgrade, or transformation projects.
• Solid understanding of SAP HANA architecture, database concepts, Basis, ABAP, integrations, and data migration.
• ECC to S/4HANA migration/conversion experience is a big plus.
• Strong at gathering requirements and translating business needs into technical terms.
• Experience managing SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and production support/hypercare.
• Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience leading global onshore/offshore technical teams.
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder communication.

Nice to Have

• SAP Activate methodology
• SAP BTP / Integration Suite / CPI
• SAP Fiori / UI5
• SAP BW/4HANA
• HANA performance tuning and optimization
• SAP RISE / cloud migration experience
• REST, SOAP, OData, IDoc, and RFC integrations
• PMP and/or SAP certification

Who We're Looking For
A hands-on technical leader who can carry a project all the way through (requirements, solution design, build or migration, testing, cutover, go-live, and post-launch stabilization) while keeping business stakeholders aligned and technical teams on track.

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