Manager - Enterprise Technology at SI Group in Schenectady, NY

The Manager – Enterprise Technology is responsible to build, maintain, and execute the enterprise applications support and technical architecture as per Global IT vision and strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Support Operations:

• Owns technical architecture for all enterprise applications and platforms, ensuring an effective service performance.
• Provide technical leadership to develop, implement, and monitor consistent architectural standards across the SAP and other enterprise applications landscape.
• Define application administration and security IT policies and standards.
• Partner with infrastructure team to define data back policies and disaster recovery process.
• Able to establish roadmap and strategy for enterprise application platforms
• Supports and leads initiatives that require significant technical and application administration expertise.
• Provides technical leadership and mentorship on software development tools, technology and Agile development methodologies.
• Leads projects, programs, portfolios across platforms as needed
• Partner with other IT functions and Global business leaders to ensure proper focus on business requirements.
• Develop operational procedures and processes to ensure adequate support of environments.
• Responsible System administration and application security of enterprise applications such as SAP, LIMS, Salesforce, Oracle Fusion.
• Monitor enterprise applications health and fine tune system performance.
• Audit application security and Segregation of Duties.
• Handles issue escalation, risk management and service delivery.
• Executes on continuous improvement of the existing software applications and architecture. Ensures quality work consistently.

People Leadership

• Directs, guides, and manages the team to provide technical oversight to ensure smooth support operations and successful projects completion.
• Perform the people management functions for the team: Performance reviews, talent management, employee training and development, etc.
• Continually evaluate the Enterprise Application Services structure and people to improve productivity and effectiveness.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere that is stimulating and motivating to the team.
• Manage departmental human resources to ensure they remain appropriately trained, motivated, and effectively utilized.

General

• Must have experience in establishing and maintaining collaboration with other functional leaders such as IT, commercial, supply chain, finance, manufacturing, regulatory and legal.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by Manager.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of work experience in information technology or business, with 6+ years of leading IT operational activities for enterprise applications n a global or multi-national environment.
• Chemical industry experience is a plus.

Specific Functional Competency Requirements

• Expertise in SAP technologies: SAP Basis, ECC, S4, DB HANA, SOLMAN, SAP ABAP, SAP NetWeaver, SAP Fiori, SAP Web Dispatcher, SSO, SAP Data Services
• Must have prior experience SAP basis and enterprise application administration
• Deep understanding of SAP Security and GRC functionality
• Hands on experience with SAP application installations, patches, upgrades, system tuning, and production support
• Knowledge of SQL, Windows operating system and Cloud hosting such as AWS
• Prior experience with system and data back and Disaster Recovery process
• Strong technical skills, with a focus on supporting consolidation, merging, and overall system and application administration
• General understanding of enterprise applications and other commonly used business application platforms
• Build relationships with business, IT partners and become a trusted technical advisor
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving and system troubleshooting
• Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate both technical and non-technical information with team members at various levels, including business leaders
• Must have comprehensive project management understanding and experience