What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is North America's preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we're heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies - and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer's was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you're looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The SAP S4 Technical Lead plays a pivotal role in driving the success of SAP S4/HANA implementations, enhancements, and upgrades. This position involves leading a team of developers and technical consultants to deliver high-quality SAP solutions that align with business objectives. The SAP S4 Technical Lead will collaborate across functional and technical teams to design, configure, and implement SAP systems that support the organization's strategic goals. This role demands an experienced leader capable of providing expert guidance, ensuring seamless system integrations, and ensuring technical excellence throughout the project lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design, architecture, and implementation of SAP S4/HANA solutions, ensuring alignment with business processes and technical standards.
• Partner with senior business stakeholders to translate complex technical requirements into effective SAP solutions.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including design specifications, test plans, and deployment guidelines.
• Oversee the development of custom SAP solutions, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and organizational standards.
• Provide strategic technical leadership and mentorship to a team of developers and technical consultants, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Conduct code reviews, ensuring compliance with best practices, performance optimization, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve high-priority technical issues across SAP S4/HANA systems, delivering timely resolutions to minimize business disruption.
• Collaborate closely with functional teams to ensure smooth and effective integration of SAP solutions with other enterprise systems.
• Manage end-to-end project timelines, deliverables, and resource allocation to ensure successful implementation and adoption of SAP solutions.
• Stay current with the latest SAP technologies and industry trends, proactively recommending solutions for system optimization and innovation.
• Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance within the SAP environment, applying best practices for system reliability and performance.
• Develop and execute comprehensive testing strategies to validate SAP solutions' functionality, performance, and user acceptance.
• Provide ongoing technical support and knowledge transfer to end-users and key stakeholders, enabling successful system adoption and utilization.
• Contribute to project budgeting, resource planning, and capacity management to meet project goals.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards throughout project delivery.
  

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Continue to move ETP forward by modernizing the org design for efficiency and effectiveness
• Develop customized, learner-driven training, enhanced by digital technologies such as video, social media, mobile and analytics, online resources
• Provide insight to inform performance metrics and KPIs for overall ETP and how it supports SGWS as well as measure performance and value drivers for this team
• Lead the evolution of the ETP career lattice in partnership with HR
• Partner with the CIO to develop and cascade yearly objectives for the ETP team and support updates to the mission and vision of the department to support overall SGWS objectives
• Monitor span of control and balance internal/external resources
• Assist leaders with succession planning and identifying top talent
• Build organizational talent by creating a learning environment that ensures employees realize their highest potential
• Act at the industry face for ETP as we focus on being an employer of choice from select universities
• Build programs through the community that support building a diverse pipeline of STEAM talent including developing creative ways to incorporate into the talent pipeline

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (Graduate Degree Preferred in business, engineering, or technology, or other relevant field)
• At least 15 years of IT leadership experience in a large scale IT organization or relevant experience as a CIO in a smaller enterprise
• Experience with direct management of a diverse technology team covering multiple functions within
• Experience leading or being part of leadership during an IT transformation
• Knowledge of digital concepts, standard IT governance models, various project delivery methodologies, technology organization design, and establishing key performance measures
• Passion for diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Strong presence in the community representing SGWS
• Experience successfully leading and delivering enterprise level, multi-million dollar, highly complex programs
• Travel required up to 50% of time

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.