SAP S4 HANA Program Manager - Associate Director - 61139961 Job at Cognizant, Boston, MA

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  • Cognizant
  • Boston, MA

Job Description

About Cognizant’s SAP Practice

Cognizant’s SAP practice is part of our Enterprise Platform Services (EPS) unit. In Cognizant’s SAP practice, we help enterprises maximize business value in the digital economy. As part of this practice, you will drive digital acceleration, to prepare our clients for the approaching autonomous business by unlocking the value of digital with industry-specific outcomes. Our extended service portfolio and business solutions help our clients gain competitive leadership, discover new revenue streams and achieve business agility—all with the operational mandates of cost and efficiency.

Cognizant is a Global Strategic Service Provider (GSSP) of SAP services with presence across the World. Our strong client base includes 13% of Fortune 500 companies, 3 of the top 5 Fortune 500 Pharma companies, 2 of top 5 Fortune 500 technology companies 3 of top 5 Fortune 500 Industrial companies, and 4 of top 5 Global Animal health companies by turnover.

We are certified in multiple SAP technologies. Our strong credentials include Global SAP Certified Provider of SAP BTP Operations, Global SAP Certified Provider of SAP Cloud and Infrastructure Operations, Global SAP Certified Provider of DevOps, Global SAP Certified Provider of SAP S/4HANA Solutions Operations, Global SAP Certified Provider of SAP SuccessFactors Solutions Operations, Global SAP Certified Provider of SAP HANA Operations, and Global SAP Certified Provider of SAP Business Suite Solutions Operations.

With Cognizant SAP, there are diverse career opportunities available to candidates due to our strong ecosystem of Hyperscalers (Microsoft, Google, AWS etc), Partnership with next gen technology providers like BluePrism, Automation anywhere; as well as companies like Syniti, Signavio and Qualtrics and of course, across SAP technologies and products like S/4HANA, Cloud & Technology ECC, SuccessFactors, BTP, Signavio, CX and Digital Commerce and Analytics. Candidates also get exposure to functional and domain consulting and SAP strategy & road mapping.

Cognizant Technology Solutions is currently seeking a highly skilled SAP Principal Functional Architect – Build Lead who will be catering to the North America customers and involves supporting proactive and reactive business opportunities such as managed services and transformation. The individual will be closely working with our onsite sales / delivery teams, and participate in solution discussions, and workshops.

Role: SAP Principal Functional Architect – Build Lead

Job Level: Associate - Director

Location: Boston, MA

Duration: Full Time only - Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

The annual salary for this position is between $156,500/year to 183,500/Year depending on the experience and other qualifications of the candidate.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Functional Architect with 18 to 20 years of expertise as build lead. This role is crucial for driving our strategic initiatives and ensuring seamless integration across modules.

Role Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating detailed project plan for design and build phase for the SAP S/4HANA Global Template

• Lay groundwork for the offshore team in terms of environment readiness, access, extension standards and spring plan so that they can hit the ground running

• Coordinate between design/functional and build/technical teams so that the teams are equipped to deliver the backlogs for each of sprints for the baseline config and RICEFW

• Create daily and weekly burndown reports to track progress of Sprint

• Work with various teams to unblock challenges and mitigate risk so that teams can deliver per their sprint plan

• Present status to various stakeholders about sprint progress

Work with Data Migration, cut over and Test Leads to support them as needed

Role Qualifications:

• Experience in agile methodology and managing sprint cycles

• Ability to lead large teams and experience in SAP S/4HANA program implementation as SAP Program Manager

• Exposure to RICEFW development life cycle and technical development best practices

• Ability to create detailed project plan, RAID Log, Sprint burndown charts

• Ability to work with SAP functional and technical teams to be the bridge between them and facilitate RICEFW development and testing

• Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

• Ability to set, manage and meet expectations with stakeholders.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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