Senior Director, SAP Development & Delivery

Requisition ID # 166437 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Senior Director

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

PG&E is seeking a Senior Director, SAP Development & Delivery to co-lead our Propel program. Propel is a large-scale business and technology modernization initiative focused on migrating to SAP S/4HANA. This role will be pivotal in standardizing business processes, modernizing technology, and driving innovation across multiple business functions including Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and IT.

 

The Senior Director, SAP Development & Delivery oversees the solution delivery and technical development for Propel. The candidate will be responsible for driving the SAP S/4HANA transformation from SAP ECC, ensuring smooth implementation across four major releases from 2025-2030.

 

Reporting Relationship

This position reports to the Vice President, Energy Systems and Solutions, IT and is responsible for leading a 300+ person organization with Director, Senior Manager and Chief level leadership team.

 

Job Responsibilities

• Lead fit to standard SAP system design with business leaders and directing IT SAP leaders with domain expertise in EAM, supply chain, finance and HR.  Own and drive overall end to end vision of the solution across all domains and technologies (SAP and non-SAP).
• Lead release planning and solution delivery and support program governance.
• Lead SAP development across internal teams, system integrators, and managed service partners, ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of all RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflows).
• Oversee data conversion from a highly customized SAP ECC environment to a greenfield S/4HANA landscape, including transition planning and execution.
• Ensure alignment with SAP Clean Core principles and proactively identify and remediate non-SAP application dependencies.
• Drive cross-functional architecture in collaboration with SAP Solution Architects and EA, ensuring a cohesive target state across Propel and external systems.
• Develop SAP skills with current team; cross skill and close skill gaps.

 

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

 

Transformational Leadership:

• Demonstrates a holistic view of the engineering, asset and work management and delivers a compelling enterprise vision of how the technology platforms can contribute to growth and performance.
• Creates long-term goals that inspire others and demonstrate innovative thinking.
• Plots a path from the present to the future and understands what must change to get there.

 

Strategic Mindset

• Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

 

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

 

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Maintaining an environment of open dialog and free of retaliation.

 

Influences and Inspires

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