Senior Manager of SAP

About the role

Join our Growing Team and see why Summit Utilities, Inc was named as one of the Fastest Growing Denver Area Private Companies 2019 and 2020; Best Places to Work in Maine 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and Best Places to Work in Arkansas 2020 and 2023, Oklahoma 2022 and 2023 and Missouri 2023. Summit is a growing natural gas utility company providing safe, reliable and clean burning natural gas service to homes and businesses in Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Missouri and Oklahoma.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, coaching, and performance management for SAP Security, SAP Basis, Enterprise Architecture, and SAP development teams, including ABAP, Fiori/UI5, and SAP BTP developers.
• Support professional development through mentoring, skills advancement, and career pathing aligned with evolving SAP technologies.
• Promote a collaborative culture between architecture, development, security, and operations teams to ensure cohesive solution delivery.
• Own and evolve the SAP technical architecture strategy for the S/4HANA on RISE environment, including core ERP, extensions, integrations, and development platforms.
• Define and enforce architectural standards and design principles for custom development across ABAP, Fiori, and SAP BTP.
• Oversee SAP Basis operations, including environment management, transports, upgrades, patching, monitoring, and system refreshes.
• Drive proactive performance optimization and capacity planning efforts in coordination with development and functional teams.
• Guide enterprise architecture practices related to SAP and its integration with non-SAP platforms and cloud services.
• Act as the senior technical point of contact for SAP, RISE providers, system integrators, and development partners.
• Lead evaluation and adoption of new SAP capabilities, including SAP BTP services, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required. Advanced degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Extensive experience in SAP technical roles, including SAP Basis, SAP Security, SAP architecture, and SAP custom development.
• Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA, including development and extensibility concepts; experience with RISE or cloud-based environments strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of SAP development best practices, clean-core principles, and performance optimization.
• Experience governing custom development in a regulated or audit-driven environment.
• Proven ability to align architecture, development, and operations teams around common technical standards and goals.
• Experience collaborating with system integrators and managed service providers.
• SAP development, architecture, or cloud certifications are a plus but not required.
• Track record of moving on-premises technology stacks to the cloud a plus.
• Experience in supporting and executing large-scale greenfield/brownfield SAP migrations.

Qualifications

• Service focused and can make quick, concise decisions.
• Friendly and effective communication skills are a must.
• Influencer resulting in a trusted advisor relationship between IT and business partners.
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills with the ability to manage others.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple initiatives and priorities.
• Not afraid to fail but always with a plan to remediate and improve.
• Attention to detail, especially with contracts, vendor management, and price negotiation.
• Capable of developing short and long-term plans for areas of responsibility and owns both successes and failures with humility and integrity.

Skills

• Service focused and can make quick, concise decisions.
• Friendly and effective communication skills are a must.
• Influencer resulting in a trusted advisor relationship between IT and business partners.
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills with the ability to manage others.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple initiatives and priorities.
• Not afraid to fail but always with a plan to remediate and improve.
• Attention to detail, especially with contracts, vendor management, and price negotiation.
• Capable of developing short and long-term plans for areas of responsibility and owns both successes and failures with humility and integrity.

Benefits

We understand that home and family are essential pieces of your life, and our benefits are designed to support you both at work and at home.

Pay

Competitive pay and medical/dental/vision and other benefits that provide flexibility, choice and support to our employees when they need it most.

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate remote work from Texas or hybrid capacity from one of our offices in Arkansas.

Skills

• Service focused and can make quick, concise decisions.
• Friendly and effective communication skills are a must.
• Influencer resulting in a trusted advisor relationship between IT and business partners.
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills with the ability to manage others.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple initiatives and priorities.
• Not afraid to fail but always with a plan to remediate and improve.
• Attention to detail, especially with contracts, vendor management, and price negotiation.
• Capable of developing short and long-term plans for areas of responsibility and owns both successes and failures with humility and integrity.

Qualifications

• Service focused and can make quick, concise decisions.
• Friendly and effective communication skills are a must.
• Influencer resulting in a trusted advisor relationship between IT and business partners.
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills with the ability to manage others.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple initiatives and priorities.
• Not afraid to fail but always with a plan to remediate and improve.
• Attention to detail, especially with contracts, vendor management, and price negotiation.
• Capable of developing short and long-term plans for areas of responsibility and owns both successes and failures with humility and integrity.

Benefits

We understand that home and family are essential pieces of your life, and our benefits are designed to support you both at work and at home.

Pay

Competitive pay and medical/dental/vision and other benefits that provide flexibility, choice and support to our employees when they need it most.

Schedule

Flexible schedule to accommodate remote work from Texas or hybrid capacity from one of our offices in Arkansas.