Senior Manager – SAP Minor Enhancement Technical Lead

Job Description

Hiring to replace our current Minor Enhancement pool from AMS service provider.

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Senior Manager SAP Minor Enhancement Technical Lead

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview:

The SAP Minor Enhancements Technical Lead will be responsible for managing technical teams (onsite), enhancing, maintaining and supporting the SAP design and development process by developing new programs, resolving defects, providing assistance in solving end user problems, answering development, basis, integration and authorization related questions, and testing/validating development effort.

The Incumbent will work with a globally diverse set of teams which includes SAP Basis, Security, ABAP, SAP functional team members, Infrastructure team and other IT process partners providing support for existing and new initiatives.

The candidate will work closely with and advise the SAP Technical Architect on architectural topics and new applications / technologies to be integrated.

The candidate will lead some cross-functional projects, relied upon to answer complex questions, and assists with program-wide initiatives.

Our organization is on a transformation journey, and we envision using newer SAP technologies and infrastructure as part of this transformation and the candidate must have exposure to these new technologies. It is expected that the candidate will be able to both lead technical initiatives and be hands-on. 

What will you do in this role: 

• Provides technical leadership, managing team members in Basis, Integration, Authorization and ABAP (onsite) through coaching and mentoring and perform peer reviews of the technical work of team members for quality assurance.
• Strong team player, able to effectively lead and generate high results from the team.
• Experiences in either design, development, coding, authorizations, integrations, basis for SAP landscapes
• Interface with functional teams to ensure the proper integration of business processes and procedures.
• Prepare comprehensive technical program documentation of technical specifications, test conditions, test plans, and test data.
• Provide guidance on how to leverage SAP based specific technologies to create the most effective solutions in the assigned areas.
• Formulate and define best practice programming standards that meet regulatory compliance requirements for Implementation, Support and Upgrade Projects.
• Provide consulting on solutions including how to leverage standard SAP functionality and how to enable requirements while minimizing on-going maintenance costs in the assigned areas

• Communicates effectively with project team members at different technical knowledge levels and across diverse geographical locations. 

• Work with service providers, prioritize project deliverable, and determine implementation approaches. 

• Work independently with a high level of quality, speed, reliability, and efficiency. 

• Work with other team members and proactively share expertise to ensure team success. 

What Should you have: 

• Minimum of 8-10 years prior experience   

• Prior customer-facing roles and management is preferred 

• BSc degree in Information Technology or a related field 

• Strong interpersonal skills and can establish and maintain credibility and a collaborative relationship. 

• Have a strong analytical skill set enjoys finding new solutions and efficiently delivering quality results. 

• Self-motivated and can work independently and in team environment. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to translate an idea to system blueprint.
• Ability to communicate an idea in business terms.
• Ability to provide mentoring and coaching to other technical team members.
• Experience in Pharmaceuticals industry is a plus.

• Experience with at least few full cycle SAP implementation, including realization, go-live and post-go-live support with SAP S/4HANA experiences, preferred

• Familiarity with upgrading large complex SAP ECC systems and experience in supporting complex system builds, transports reviews, system upgrade support including SPAU/SPDD resolution.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business, Emerging Technologies, Hiring Management, Methods and Tools, Program Implementation, Requirements Management, SAP HCM, Software as a Service (SaaS), Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Technical Advice

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Job Posting End Date:

08/28/2025

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