SAP Environments Manager

 

 

SAP Environments Manager

 

Our Technology team are looking for an experienced SAP Environments Manager to join them on a permanent basis in either London or Frating, Colchester.

 

Joining a newly created team and reporting into the ERP Programme Director, the SAP Environments Manager will support our SAP transformation programme and BAU business requirements analysis, coordinating and managing the Test, Staging and Production environments. As SAP Environments Manager you will collaborate closely with all SAP members and the wider Technology Centres of Excellence teams to ensure environments are robust, sustainable and supportive of our highly complex and integrated application landscape.

 

About the team

 

The Technology team provides expertise and effective solutions to Penguin Random House. We integrate flexibility and agility which supports our consistent way of working. We set ourselves up for success by holding ourselves accountable and welcoming change. Each member of the Technology team brings skill and initiative to their role; we take personal ownership within a one team culture, working collaboratively to meet expectations from our stakeholders who trust us to deliver.

 

The role

 

Key responsibilities:

 

• Managing the calendar of SAP environments, matching-up environments with requirements, calling out and negating bottlenecks and ensuring environments are fit for purpose.
• Working with other Centre of Excellence to align multi-platform environments.
• Identify and co-ordinate SAP test environments across the PRH application landscape.
• Data housekeeping, interface maintenance and data refresh co-ordination.
• Develop an understanding of data trend analytics in the SAP environments space.
• Leading & co-ordinating triage for outages affecting Test Environments.    
• Making recommendations around the provision of soft/hard/middle ware.
• Leading, co-ordinating and reporting deployment activities, including running deployment check-lists & countdown process.
• Triage & management of post deployment issues.
• Deliver a pragmatic approach to defending Live Service whilst meeting demands.
• Design and implementation of appropriate change management processes.

 

 

What you’ll bring

 

Essential criteria:

 

• Previous extensive experience as an Environments Manager, working with SAP applications and cloud technologies.
• Strong experience in SAP ECC, SAP HANA DB and BTP.
• Understanding of S/4 HANA, Concur and SAP Signavio.
• Able to clearly communicate across various levels, providing transparent and timely reporting and data as required.
• Experience of working with SQL / MS Access / Selenium (or other reporting software)
• Experience of working with Cloud / Virtual machine services (Azure/AWS)
• DevOps experience (CI/CD, Pipelines, Branching, Merging, Terraform, ARM)
• Ability to identify technical and process improvement opportunities and advocate to get them implemented.
• Strong understanding of building workflows and processes around releasing code through multiple environments.
• Experience of working in a relevant technical environment, preferably with front-end and legacy technologies.
• Experience of building processes and implementing new ways of working.

 

Preferred criteria:

 

• Be capable of making strategic business decisions, considering relevant risks, long term implications, commercial realities and manage stakeholder needs.
• Able to thrive in fast paced and high-pressure environments, finding solutions in a timely manner.
• Ability to quickly assimilate complex information and use judgement to draw conclusions and make recommendations.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and use judgement to drive forward deliverables.

 

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