SAP Technical Lead S4 HANA

R00187975 SAP S4HANA Technical Lead

With a focus on Mobility, Operational Excellence, Value to our Customers and the Electrification of vehicles, you can expect to be part of something exciting.

The Information Systems (IS) Technical Lead plays a critical role in the Americas SAP S4 technology product team and closely coordinates delivery efforts with the SCRUM Master and regional product owner.  The IS Technical Lead is also responsible for developing a sound knowledge for researching, planning, coordinating, and recommending business, cost, strategy, software, and system choices to meet an organization's business requirements. The IS Technical Lead understands problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

Job Functions:

• The IS Technical Lead is an internal consultancy role responsible for investigating processes, technology, cost, and strategy while identifying options for improving and bridging the needs of the business with the use of Information Systems and Technology. An IS Technical Lead is responsible for analyzing and documenting the Information Systems needs of clients to help identify problems and propose solutions.
• The IS Technical Lead role is to liaise with the internal business departments and the providers of services to the enterprise, as well as potentially guide/manage other Technical Leads in this capacity.
• The IS Technical Lead will manage incidents as they occur by working with multiple third-party vendors to ensure maintenance and support is carried out effectively among all parties.
• The IS Technical Lead must understand, interpret, and suggest resolution to technical systematic issues and communicate these issues effectively to management and peers.
• The IS Technical Lead will create and maintain the product backlog
• The IS Technical Lead will partner with the Product Owner and Scrum Master to ensure the project stays on track and delivers value to customers
• The scope of analysis and delivery includes all business functions within a specific business domain.
• As necessary, perform any other relevant duties across different functional areas across regionally and globally to aid in the success of the organization.

Skills and Abilities:

• The IS Technical Lead plays a vital role in the systems and business development process. Qualified Technical Leads must possess all the following skills listed below: analytical, technical, managerial, and interpersonal.
• Analytical skills to understand the organization and its functions, which helps them to identify opportunities and to analyze and solve problems.
• Agile skills to quickly move concepts from requirements to market delivery.
• Familiarity with various programming languages, operating systems, and platforms.
• Management skills to manage projects, resources, risk, and change.
• Communication skills to collaborate and influence Business Users, Programmers, and other IT/IS Teams and Professionals.  Strong ability to interpret business requirements and translate to technical solutions, while negotiating conflict and building consensus. Possess effective communication skill to Senior Managers (IS & business).
• Must be flexible and possess the ability to adapt to changing priorities and a flexible workday. May be required off work schedule to meet deliverables or respond to on-call urgent inquiries.
• Collaboration & Leadership
• Ability to establish deliverables and detail customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders and service providers to establish the deliverables for the service providers, using requirement-gathering techniques (e.g., planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups).
• Working knowledge of the following skills:
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task, and workflow analysis.
• Utilize your experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: (Functional requirements (Business Requirements Document), Use Cases, GUI, Screen, and Interface designs, develop, monitor and conduct application testing)
• Work autonomously to set priorities with business users and resolve issues across business functions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans
• Ability to interpret business logic and identify points of failure based on source code and/or error logs as part of production support for business functions within scope of expertise.
• Act as a liaison between vendors and the organization they represent. They may be responsible for developing cost analysis, functional analysis, design considerations, and implementation timelines. They may also be responsible for feasibility studies of an application or system before making recommendations to senior management.

Technologies and Competencies Experience:

• Client Server technologies – general understanding
• Cloud/SaaS technologies (preferably AWS experience) - general understanding

Possess proficiency in the following:

• Office 365 suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access).
• Microsoft Windows operating system.
• Knowledge of Project Management methodologies like Agile and Kaizen is mandatory.
• Hands-on experience in Agile projects is mandatory.
• Responsible for preparing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for technology products.
• Prepare detailed Business Process flows.
• Prepare Business process mapping.
• Participate in requirement sessions with business team, create user stories, define functional and non-functional acceptance criteria.
• Create detailed use cases for system and user acceptance testing.
• Hands on experience with Project Management tools like JIRA, Confluence, or similar.
• Hands-on experience in Agile projects is mandatory.
• Familiarity in RFI (Request for Information) / RFP (Request for proposal) processes.

Experience

• 8+ Years overall IS/IT experience with at least:
• S4 HANA
• 5+ years application implementation experience
• 5+ years experience in working with third party vendors.
• Prior experience working with offshore personnel is a plus.
• Project management experience a plus
• University Degree in computer science or related discipline.
• Advanced technical degree preferred.

What we offer

As a member of our team, you will have access to many of our benefits - because we want you to feel cared for, supported, and engaged at Nissan. Alongside comprehensive career development and learning opportunities, you will also have access to a wide range of employee benefits.

Nissan (NMEX,NEdM, NRFS, NRFM y ANZEN) realiza contrataciones con base al cumplimiento del perfil de puesto en la vacante, sin distinción (ni discriminación por género, identidad y/o expresión de género, orientación sexual, ) raza, color, idioma, religión, opinión política o de cualquier otra índole, origen nacional o social, posición económica, nacimiento o cualquier otra condición.

-Nissan (NMEX,NEdM, NRFS, NRFM and ANZEN) hires based on the fulfillment of the job profile in the vacancy, without distinction or discrimination based on gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, race, color, language, religion, political or any other opinion, national or social origin, economic position, birth or any other condition.

Mexico City Mexico