Technical Program Manager - Enterprise Integration (SAP S/4HANA) in Düsseldorf

Project description

Our Client is undertaking its most significant digital transformation to date, with delivering a consistent, integrated SAP S/4HANA-based ecosystem and associated technology stack across markets as a cornerstone.We are looking for an experienced Technical Program Manager to ensure all system integrations, interfaces, dependencies, and readiness activities are aligned, governed, and delivered to support the transformation program Go-Live. Act as the central point of accountability for integration, drive cross-functional coordination, governance, risk management, and stakeholder alignment across business, process, architecture, technology, testing, data migration, and cutover teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of accountability for integration across the program.
• Define, establish, and govern the end-to-end integration framework, strategy, operating model, principles, standards, and architecture guardrails in partnership with Enterprise Architecture.
• Own, maintain, and govern all integrations, interfaces, middleware components, and business-critical data flows across the program technology landscape.
• Drive integration readiness, ensuring requirements, dependencies, deliverables, and plans are identified early and translated into coordinated execution across business and technology teams.
• Consolidate, align, and govern integration plans, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies, including WRICEF objects, across all workstreams and vendors.
• Proactively track, challenge, and drive the resolution of integration actions, risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions, escalating where necessary to protect program delivery.
• Establish and lead integration governance, planning, readiness forums, workshops, symposiums, and alignment sessions, including reporting on overall integration readiness.
• Maintain end-to-end visibility of integration sequencing, risks, and solution readiness, working closely with technical teams to validate milestone readiness and delivery progress.
• Partner with Testing, Data Migration, Transition & Cutover, Senior Engineering, SAP CoE, Product Teams, and System Integrators to ensure end-to-end solution readiness.
• Support program governance forums, including the Design Forum, X-Workstream Integration meetings, and Steering Committees, communicating integration status, risks, and recommendations to program leadership.

SKILLS

Must have

• * Experience with SAP S/4HANA program and their integrations with surrounding enterprise applications* Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's degree preferred)* Minimum of 10 years' experience leading integration management, enterprise application integration, program delivery, or large-scale business transformation initiatives* Proven experience managing complex integration landscapes across SAP and non-SAP applications within multi-vendor environments* Demonstrated experience defining and governing integration frameworks, operating models, standards, and delivery processes* Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, middleware platforms, APIs, and event-driven architectures* Familiarity with data migration, master data management, and business-critical data flows within complex transformation programs* Experience identifying and mitigating integration risks, critical path dependencies, and cross-workstream delivery challenges* Demonstrated ability to establish and lead governance forums, stakeholder alignment activities, and executive-level reporting* Prior experience in large-scale, multi-country transformation programs involving multiple implementation partners* Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)* Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to align business, architecture, product, engineering, and delivery teams around shared outcomes.* Excellent facilitation, workshop leadership, planning, and decision-making capabilities.* Ability to operate effectively in complex and ambiguous environments, balancing competing priorities while maintaining focus on delivery readiness and execution.* Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with a focus on integration readiness, milestone achievement, and delivery excellence.* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate integration status, risks, issues, and recommendations to senior leadership.* Experience with WRICEF objects/integration planning tools* English C1

Nice to have

* German B2

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