Technical Service Manager, Global Cloud Operations, Palo Alto

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Meet The Team

The Global Cloud Operation (GCO) team ensures customers get maximum value from their cloud journey through strong end‑to‑end operations. Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) operates SAP’s Cloud ERP Private offering (RISE with SAP), delivering technical managed services globally. Technical Service Managers (TSMs) oversee all technical aspects of the customer lifecycle, providing proactive, fixed‑scope, outcome‑based services across the full SAP stack. ECS helps customers maintain stable IT operations and supports their transition to the intelligent enterprise with S/4HANA. The organization focuses on reducing complexity, ensuring stability, mitigating risk, lowering total cost of ownership, and enabling customers to innovate efficiently.

What You’ll Do

As Technical Service Manager (TSM), we are looking for an accomplished Senior SAP Technical Consultant in delivering high-quality results consistently. As a key member of ECS, you will be contributing to SAP's Global strategy of helping customers with adoption of SAP S/4HANA on their path to the Intelligent Enterprise.

Technical Service Manager (TSM) acts as a trusted technical & Delivery advisor in the safeguarding and optimization of customer investments into SAP ECS. TSM owns the customer landscape and advise on critical and complex landscape changes during life cycle management. TSM will work as a team with ECS internal service delivery and other roles within SAP to serve and delight our customers, by providing quality services throughout their entire lifecycle.

This is a customer-facing role where you will be part of the ECS North America regional team .

Following are the key tasks that this role will perform:

• Primary contact for the customer regarding technology and cloud service delivery discussions.
• Run regular cadence with stakeholders at customer and manage expectations with regards to service delivery. Act as first escalation point.
• Own the technical discussions with the customer and act as the orchestrator of experts to obtain expertise from the SAP delivery organization as required.

• • Ownership & detailed understanding of the customer landscape managed within ECS & understand interdependencies between systems (both within ECS and beyond).
  • Support the Account team and the TechOps teams for execution of the service delivery plan and calendar.
  • Analyze customer technical requirements and organize / co-ordinate experts from ECS Delivery team and drive those topics to resolution to the satisfaction of the customer.
  • Present the intricacies of the private offering, technical details, and engagement model to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Support the customer or SAP services teams to build customer-specific cloud roadmaps that cover topics around Infrastructure Architecture, Technical Managed services, security, and integration.
  • Guide customers on all technical aspects like Business Continuity, Security & Compliance, Networks, etc.
  • Assess customer security and network requirements to make sure the SAP security architecture framework can meet customer requirements.
  • Conduct Technical & operational reviews (monthly) to measure the progress against defined Cloud architecture & roadmap; establish and drive resolution plans to resolve issues and problems to completion.
  • Support the migration roadmap together with partners, System Integrators, and or SAP Professional Services.
  • Comprehensive knowledge on S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration path, methodology and tools.
  • Understanding of various SAP cloud solutions and integration scenarios of SAP systems with BTP, Ariba, SuccessFactors etc.

What You’ll Bring

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• • Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management.
  • High proficiency in the SAP product portfolio, offerings, and industry solutions.
  • Strong technical project management skills & customer-facing experience
  • Strong ability to translate between technical and non-technical audience with confidence
  • Strong engagement management, relationship building and de-escalation skills
  • Excellent presentation, communication and moderator skills
  • Good understanding of SAP solutions (releases, platform interdependencies, etc.)
  • Good understanding of operational aspects (Application or Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment.
  • Good understanding of capabilities of at least one Hyperscale Clouds (AWS; MS Azure or GCP).
  • Willingness to undertake customer-related travel on short notice.

• • 6+ years of experience with SAP Basis administrative duties REQUIRED.
  • 6+ years of customer-facing SAP Technical Consulting experience.
  • 6+ years of solution design, enterprise architecture, and/or SAP implementation.
  • 4+ years’ experience in technical project management for SAP Operations or Implementation

Nice to Have

• • SAP NetWeaver, OS/DB migration, SAP HANA, TOGAF certifications are plus.
  • Experience and certifications with IaaS Providers (AWS, MS Azure, or GCP) are an advantage.
  • SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills would be very helpful but not mandatory.
  • Understanding of Cloud ERP Private (RISE with SAP)
  • Cloud security including Cyber Security, Encryption, and key management knowledge is preferred.

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Requisition ID: 448868 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

Nearest Major Market: San Jose
Nearest Secondary Market: Palo Alto
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