Director, Core Platforms Architecture

Constellation Brands•Rochester, NY

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Constellation Brands, Inc. seeks a Director, Core Platforms Architecture for its Rochester, NY location. This role is accountable for the lifecycle management of all SAP systems and tightly coupled technologies. The position involves establishing practices and providing oversight for application of service packs, version upgrades, and preventative/corrective maintenance through the change management process. The Director will influence product roadmaps, lead a team responsible for SAP BASIS, HANA database, and SAP Security, and maintain knowledge of SAP roadmaps and emerging technologies. Key responsibilities include driving operational excellence, providing incident and problem management, leading interactions with other architecture and product teams, and establishing best practices for monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP environment. The role also involves maintaining performance and capacity plans, establishing data retention and archiving strategies, developing and testing Disaster Recovery plans, assessing cybersecurity threats, and formulating remediation strategies. A significant aspect of the role is leading and architecting SAP TM implementation from a platform perspective and understanding/defining security roles and authorizations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
7 years of relevant SAP Basis Platform experience.
Leading a team.
SAP Basis planning, installations and configurations (SAP S/4 HANA, FIORI, SLT, SOLMAN, GRC, TM, BTP, Signavio, Cloud essentials, DWC, and BOBJ).
HANA High Availability and Disaster Recovery hosted in cloud or hybrid environment.
Running and maintaining SAP in hybrid environments and exposure to multiple cloud platforms such as AWS, RISE, Azure, or GCP.
Connecting SAP systems with other enterprise applications, cloud platforms, or third-party services.
Utilize experience with the latest and new dimensional SAP products like SAP DWC, SAP Signavio, SAP BTP is mandatory.

Responsibilities

Assure availability, continuity, integrity, security, and recovery of all SAP components.
Accountable for lifecycle management of all SAP systems and tightly coupled technologies.
Establish practices and provide oversight for application of service packs, version upgrades, preventative, and corrective maintenance.
Influence CBI product roadmaps based on expertise and evolution of vendor products.
Lead a team with responsibilities and capabilities in SAP BASIS, HANA database and SAP Security.
Maintain knowledge of SAP roadmap and emerging technologies impacting SAP Basis, make recommendations to improve efficiency, throughput, capabilities and/or capacity.
Drive operational excellence, provide level III incident and problem management, including resolution and root cause analysis of complex SAP Basis and database issues.
Lead interaction with Core Product, Platform Management and Enterprise Architecture teams to deliver solutions within budget and timeline constraints.
Lead Platform Operations team members, providing technical guidance and mentoring.
Establish best practices and oversee monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP environment and SAP transport system.
Maintain performance and capacity plans (including licensing) in line with product roadmap developments.
Establish data retention and archiving strategy and lead team responsible for implementation and continuous evolution.
Develop Disaster Recovery plans, procedures, and test scenarios in collaboration with Cloud Engineering team.
Review current SAP application landscape, continually assess environmental requirements aligned with product team roadmaps, lead build (or decommissioning) of SAP instances.
Responsible for understanding and defining security roles and authorizations required by the platform team, ensures appropriate controls and usage of privileged access.
Lead and architect SAP TM implementation from Platform Management and Enterprise Architecture perspective.
Conduct periodic assessments of cybersecurity threats and system vulnerabilities and develop comprehensive remediation strategies.
Formulate and execute implementation plans aligned with industry best practices and regulatory compliance requirements.