SAP Technical Lead

Job Description

At Agilent, we advance the quality of life by enabling scientific discovery through innovative instruments, software, and services.

Agilent is seeking an experienced SAP Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across our enterprise SAP landscape and play a key role in delivering strategic business initiatives and our ongoing SAP modernization and S/4HANA transformation.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for SAP solution design, development, integration, technical standards, and overall solution quality. The successful candidate will work closely with functional teams, solution architects, business stakeholders, and implementation partners to design and deliver scalable, reliable, and maintainable SAP solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for SAP projects, enhancements, integrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Lead technical solution design and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
• Provide hands-on technical expertise across SAP ABAP, ABAP Objects, enhancements, interfaces, workflows, APIs, IDocs, OData, CDS Views, and related SAP technologies.
• Provide technical leadership for the transition from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA and adoption of modern SAP architecture and development practices.
• Promote SAP Clean Core principles, custom-code optimization, and modern extensibility approaches.
• Review technical designs and development approaches to ensure quality, consistency, performance, and adherence to development standards.
• Partner with functional teams, solution architects, integration teams, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for SAP integrations with enterprise applications and cloud platforms.
• Establish and promote SAP technical standards, development guidelines, governance, documentation, and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to internal team members and external development partners.
• Collaborate with SAP and strategic implementation partners on solution architecture, S/4HANA transformation, upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging SAP technologies and recommend opportunities to simplify and modernize the SAP application landscape.

The ideal candidate will combine deep SAP technical expertise with strong leadership, solution design, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. This individual should be comfortable remaining hands-on while providing technical direction, influencing solution architecture, mentoring teams, and helping shape the future of Agilent’s SAP technology landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of SAP technical experience, including strong hands-on experience in SAP development, technical solution design, and architecture.
• 3+ years of leadership experience, providing technical direction, mentoring team members, driving solution design, and coordinating SAP development teams and delivery partners.
• Strong hands-on expertise in SAP ABAP, ABAP Objects, enhancements, interfaces, reports, forms, workflows, IDocs, APIs, OData services, and CDS Views.
• Strong experience working with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Strong understanding of SAP technical architecture, integrations, development standards, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Experience reviewing technical designs and code and establishing development standards and best practices.
• Experience collaborating with functional teams, solution architects, integration teams, business stakeholders, and external implementation partners.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor geographically distributed technical teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation, migration, upgrade, or modernization programs.
• Experience with SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, Fiori/UI5, RAP, and modern SAP extensibility approaches.
• Knowledge of SAP Clean Core principles, side-by-side extensibility, and custom-code optimization.
• Experience with SPDD/SPAU and SAP custom-code remediation as part of upgrades or transformation programs.
• Experience working within a large, complex, global SAP environment.
• Experience leading or coordinating onshore/offshore teams and external implementation or support partners.
• Relevant SAP certifications in ABAP, S/4HANA, BTP, or related SAP technologies are preferred but not required.

Additional Details

This job has a full time weekly schedule. Applications for this job will be accepted until at least October 27, 2026 or until the job is no longer posted.

The full-time equivalent pay range for this position is $127,680.00 - $199,500.00/yr plus eligibility for bonus, stock and benefits. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. During the hiring process, a recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for a preferred location. Pay and benefit information by country are available at: https://careers.agilent.com/locations

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and merit-based employer that values individuals of all backgrounds at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, pregnancy, race, religion or religious creed, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, local law, ordinance, or regulation and will not be discriminated against on these bases. Agilent Technologies, Inc., is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive in the workplace where everyone is welcome, and strives to support candidates with disabilities. If you have a disability and need assistance with any part of the application or interview process or have questions about workplace accessibility, please email [email protected] or contact +1-262-754-5030. For more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please visit www.agilent.com/en/accessibility.

Travel Required:

10% of the Time

Shift:

Day

Duration:

No End Date

Job Function:

IT