SAP Platform Manager (Remote)

About the role

Stryker is looking for a Platform Manager for its SAP technical platform, working remotely. You will lead the strategy, lifecycle management and continuous improvement of the SAP platform, covering the roadmap, standards, upgrade strategy, vendor engagement and technical governance. The role is hybrid, defined as being able to come into the office at least one day per week, with travel of about 20%.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and communicate the SAP technical platform roadmap, standards, upgrade paths and architecture principles.
• Lead planning and execution oversight for SAP initiatives, integrations, upgrades, migrations, patching and decommissioning.
• Partner with infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, application and business teams on platform capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging SAP technologies and recommend adoption, modernization, automation and simplification.
• Manage vendor, managed service provider and consulting partner engagement, including scope, delivery oversight and performance management.
• Provide cost, sizing, effort estimates and technical input for projects, business cases and investment decisions.
• Drive standardization, governance, documentation and continuous improvement across platform engineering, environment management and release planning.
• Communicate strategy, risks and decisions to IT leadership, business stakeholders and project teams.
• Lead, coach and develop team members or partner resources.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in a related field preferred.
• 8+ years of information technology experience.
• 7+ years of SAP technical platform, SAP Basis or SAP infrastructure experience.
• Prior experience supporting at least two SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC implementations, migrations, upgrades or major technical releases.
• 3+ years managing SAP environments supporting more than 1,000 users.
• Demonstrated experience in at least five of the listed SAP areas (e.g., S/4HANA, ECC, BW, PI/PO, Basis, Landscape Management, high availability, upgrades, migrations, Cloud ALM).

Required skills

• Preferred: SAP technology certification, SAP S/4HANA certification, SAP Business Technology Platform certification or cloud certification.
• Preferred: experience with SAP high availability, disaster recovery architecture and recovery testing, and system sizing and capacity planning.
• Preferred: knowledge of data center operations, cloud infrastructure, network concepts and enterprise monitoring; experience in regulated, global or highly complex environments; experience presenting to director-level stakeholders.

What we offer

• Pay ranges depending on U.S. work location, from $118,000 to $255,700 annually.
• Remote work with hybrid flexibility (at least one day in the office per week) and about 20% travel.