Senior Integrated Tool Chain Lead for SAP S/4HANA Transformation

Role: Senior Integrated Tool Chain Lead for SAP S/4HANA Transformation

Location: Remote with Travel

Hire Type: Full Time

12 - 18 years of experience

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong experience in SAP S/4HANA transformation programs, including Greenfield or Brownfield implementations.

• Hands-on expertise in SAP Cloud ALM for requirements, test management, defect management, monitoring, and operational visibility.

• Practical experience with SAP LeanIX for enterprise architecture repository, capability mapping, application dependency insights, and meta-model governance.

• Strong working knowledge of JIRA, JIRA Xray, backlog management, agile delivery execution, work item synchronization, and delivery metrics.

• Experience with Tricentis TOSCA for test automation, regression suites, test execution, and integration with the broader toolchain.

• Ability to define end-to-end traceability from business process to enterprise architecture, backlog, test execution, defects, and release outcomes.

• Experience working in SAFe Agile delivery environments, including ARTs, PI planning, cross-ART dependencies, objectives, and delivery governance.

• Strong understanding of integrated toolchain governance, templates, workflows, naming conventions, taxonomy, audit compliance, data quality, and access control.

• Ability to create executive dashboards and KPIs covering delivery health, backlog status, testing coverage, defect leakage, and architecture insights.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define the integrated toolchain vision, strategy, and architecture aligned with SAP Activate and SAFe delivery models.

• Establish the end-to-end traceability model across business process tools, SAP LeanIX, JIRA, SAP Cloud ALM, TOSCA, testing, defects, and delivery reporting.

• Lead setup, configuration, and adoption of SAP Cloud ALM for requirements, testing, defect management, monitoring, and operational visibility.

• Configure and govern SAP LeanIX for enterprise architecture, capability mapping, application dependency analysis, and architecture-to-delivery traceability.

• Drive JIRA setup for agile backlog management, work item flow, PI planning support, ART execution, and cross-team delivery visibility.

• Enable TOSCA-based test automation and regression management, ensuring linkage between requirements, test cases, execution status, and defects.

• Design and implement integrations such as SAP Cloud ALM to JIRA, LeanIX to JIRA or SAP Cloud ALM, and capability-to-delivery traceability flows.

• Define the toolchain operating model covering tool ownership, administration model, governance cadence, release controls, change management, and access governance.

• Create standard templates, workflows, naming conventions, taxonomy, reporting standards, and compliance mechanisms across the toolchain.

• Support Solution Train Engineer, PMO, enterprise architects, QA, Basis, security, functional teams, system integrators, and business users with dashboards, KPIs, adoption support, and governance reviews.

• Conduct onboarding workshops, enablement sessions, and stakeholder reviews to drive adoption across global and multi-vendor delivery teams.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

Strong stakeholder communication, executive reporting, governance mindset, cross-functional collaboration, ability to work with global and multi-vendor teams, structured problem solving, adoption leadership, and focus on standardization, scalability, audit compliance, and data quality.