Director, Enterprise Applications – SAP Platform

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Director, Applications Platform leads the SAP technical platform team responsible for reliable delivery, operations, and continuous improvement of Cepheid’s SAP application landscape. This role provides day-to-day leadership across SAP Basis, SAP BTP services, ABAP development standards, Fiori enablement, integrations, SAP security enablement, automation, and DevOps practices. The Director partners with Enterprise Applications leadership, architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, compliance, and vendor teams to execute approved roadmaps, maintain platform stability, support SAP transformation initiatives, and advance Clean Core, automation, and AI-enabled productivity practices within established enterprise governance.

This position reports to the Enterprise Applications leader and is part of the Enterprise Applications organization. This is a remote role based in the USA.

In This Role, You Will Have The Opportunity To

• Lead execution of the SAP technical platform roadmap for S/4HANA, BTP, integrations, development frameworks, automation, and DevOps capabilities in alignment with Enterprise Applications priorities.
• Implement SAP best practices, Clean Core guidelines, platform standards, and cloud technology adoption plans that support approved transformation objectives.
• Manage SAP Basis and platform operations, SAP BTP services, ABAP and Fiori delivery standards, SAP integration support, SAP Security and GRC technical enablement, automation, and AI-enabled productivity initiatives.
• Maintain standards for source control, release management, deployment practices, monitoring, traceability, auditability, compliance, and release quality across SAP delivery and support processes.
• Collaborate with business, functional, architecture, infrastructure, security, compliance, and vendor teams to deliver secure, stable, scalable, and compliant platform services.

The Essential Requirements Of The Job Include

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field with 10+ years of Enterprise Applications or SAP technical delivery experience.
• 5+ years leading SAP technical teams, managed service providers, engineering partners, or platform delivery teams.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Basis, ABAP development, Fiori, SAP integrations, SAP Security and GRC, DevOps, and SDLC governance.
• Experience applying SAP operating model standards, Clean Core governance, technical standards, development frameworks, application lifecycle management, release management, and technical compliance practices.
• Experience supporting technology budgets, vendor performance, operational reliability, platform monitoring, major incident response, SOX, ITGC, validation, and audit-readiness activities in regulated environments.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 30% domestically and internationally, as needed, to support program delivery, business engagement, partner coordination, audits, training, or operational readiness.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Hands-on exposure to SAP RISE Private Cloud, SAP Clean Core governance, SAP Joule, AI-assisted development, cloud platform services, API architecture, or enterprise automation.
• Experience using or improving DevOps operating practices with tools such as Jira, GitHub, SAP Cloud ALM, Rev-Trac, Control-M, or related delivery and operational platforms.
• Experience improving observability, proactive operations, automation, incident reduction, root-caused analysis, operational health dashboards, and continuous-improvement practices for business-critical enterprise applications.

Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that