Director, SAP Development

Requisition ID # 164326 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

 

The Information Technology (IT) organization designs, develops, operates and maintains the technology and telecommunications systems that enable PG&E to meet its commitment to providing safe, reliable and affordable service to customers.

 

IT partners with the business by increasing capabilities through the development of additional functionality, implementing new technologies, reducing costs, increasing productivity, and facilitating organizational and business effectiveness through enabling technologies.

 

Position Summary

 

The Director, SAP Development is a key leadership role leading all development for PG&E’s Propel program, a major business and technology modernization program to unlock customer value by simplifying the way we work together. Propel will migrate PG&E to the new version of SAP, S/4HANA, seizing this unique opportunity for PG&E to standardize business processes, clean the technology core, and enable innovation for breakthrough change across Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Information Technology.

 

The Director, SAP Development will report directly to the Senior Director, Development & Operations and be responsible for overseeing all technical workstreams for Propel – the transformation program at PG&E that defines, delivers, and supports business solutions enabled by SAP S/4HANA ERP and adjacent platforms. This role will have technical delivery leadership responsibility for Enterprise Design and four releases (2025-2030) for PG&E’s current ERP transformation program shifting from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA.

 

Scope of business processes include Design to Operate (DTO), Source to Pay (STP), Inventory to Deliver (ITD), Forecast to Plan (FTP), Record to Report (RTR) and Hire to Retire (HTR).  Solutions include: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Fieldglass, EPPM, SAC, BOBJ/BW, BTP and hundreds of non-SAP applications.

 

This role will lead SAP application development, set up and govern clean core development standards, automate testing and DevOps methodology. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and technical expertise to ensure seamless integration across a diverse application landscape.

 

The ideal candidate should have long history of delivering SAP projects leading development workstreams and directly managing development team members.

 

This position will be based at PG&E headquarters in Oakland, California.  The candidate must have willingness to commute into the Oakland, California office at least 3 days a week; relocation assistance offered.

 

 

Key Skills, Experience and Responsibilities:

 

• Lead the preparation, execution, and transition of ECC to S/4 with the goal of moving to a clean core.
• Lead all RICEFW development, design scalable architectures, and build clean, maintainable solutions.
• Ensure optimal integration of SAP with other enterprise systems and technologies.
• Manage and execute the transition to a clean core using ABAP cloud and the Business Technology Platform (BTP).
• Develop and maintain development standards and establish KPIs to measure design and code quality and track post-implementation performance.
• Document and manage SOPs for software and information platform systems.