Unilever - SAP Technical Infrastructure Lead

SAP Technical Infrastructure Lead

Pointers :

- 5 years of experience, majorly in technical architect experience, with designing experience.

- Exposed to IBM skills, again worked on large computing environment

- The SAP Technical Infrastructure Lead is expected to hold significant experience, having specialist knowledge of SAP Infrastructural Landscapes, the destination architecture across a broad spectrum of core technologies and further expected to stay abreast with technology advances across the core SAP Infrastructure Landscape.

- In essence, the SAP Technical Infrastructure Lead will provide technical assurance and support to all aspects of the SAP hosting infrastructure platform and play a lead role in delivery of technical capabilities into the estate.

- This includes specification of systems architectures, identifying the components needed to meet the present and future requirements, creation of technology building blocks and the inter relationships and dependencies between these components.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Supports and drives SIC strategy in alignment with and in support of overall ES strategy

- Ability to influence at senior levels, both internally and externally.

- Ensure team documentation is maintained to highest quality.

- Ensure alignment to appropriate governance/controls in place for team regards risk & issue mgmt., team reviews, demand and work assignment forums

- Keep current with core vendor technologies, act /provide consultancy to SIC team members (individually or through team)

- Maintain alignment to key stakeholders internally and externally ie SIC LT members, KEC/Project delivery, Capabilities, Solutioning. Externally - IBM, SAP, HP, Microsoft (as part of agreed strategy with SIC LT)

- Always ensure where inefficiency or simplification opportunities exist, catalog and propose changes to drive change

- Ensure cost efficiency, simplification and standards approach to all delivery activities

- Selects appropriately from applicable standards, methods, tools and applications and use.

- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.

- Communicates fluently orally and in writing and can present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Maintains awareness of developing technologies and their application and takes responsibility for personal development.

- Prepared to take on challenging work outside own comfort zone

- Injects a sense of pace and urgency into the workplace, expediting decisions and getting stuff done in double-quick time; willing to address sensitive blockages without delay

- Responsible for ensuring alignment to Innovate and CTO strategy in all deliverables

- Consultation point for SIC technical issues

- Encourage excellence in design and implementation

- Maintain all SIC architectural design documentation

- Undertake cross project design reviews

- Influence strategies for SAP Infrastructure solutions and innovations by providing in-depth knowledge of SAP

- Support Innovate on Roadmaps, POC, Capability Delivery and Building Block Development and evolution

- Support Innovate in realizing target architecture

- Support Operate on resolution of critical issues & problems

- Providing technical leadership to all elements of SIC deliverables.

- POC and Capability requirements and technical management and leadership

- Providing a KEC focus across all work streams of SIC

- Cost effective and aware stewardship of the SAP hosting infrastructure platform

- Drive standardization of the SAP Cloud Infrastructure

- Core members of the SIAA (SAP Infrastructure Architecture Authority)