Director, SAP Development

Location: Oakland, California

Requisition ID # 164326-en_US

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Our IT professionals are at the enterprise's core, leveraging modern technology to deliver safe and reliable energy to our customers. We use AI, the cloud, data science, and the latest tools and programming languages to solve hard, interesting problems and tackle challenges like the ever-growing threat of climate change, wildfires, and breaches of cyber security. Join us and experience the satisfaction of being a technology enabler for a company that leads the industry in innovation.

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• Full-Time

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• Curious

• Results-driven

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Benefits

PG&E is proud to provide a comprehensive benefits program to help you take care of your physical, emotional and financial health. In addition to the offerings below, you can expect inclusive programs in areas such as performance recognition, training and employee development, mentoring and more.

Paid Time Off

Vacation, Sick Hours, Holidays, Family Leave

Employee Resource Groups

16 ERGs at the core of our DEIB culture that support employee development and foster business relationships

Professional Development

Leadership and Employee Development Courses, LinkedIn Learning, Mentoring Program and up to $8,000 for Tuition Reimbursement

Healthcare

Low-Cost Medical, Dental, Life/Accident/Disability Insurance and Free Vision

Healthcare & Dependent Care FSA

Pre-tax employee-funded accounts that cover certain out-of-pocket medical and dependent care expenses

Retirement Plans

401(k) Matching up to 8% AND Cash Balance Pension (no cost to you)

Job Details

Requisition ID # 164326

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Information Technology (IT) organization designs, develops, operates and maintains the technology and telecommunications systems that enable PG&E to meet its commitment to providing safe, reliable and affordable service to customers.

IT partners with the business by increasing capabilities through the development of additional functionality, implementing new technologies, reducing costs, increasing productivity, and facilitating organizational and business effectiveness through enabling technologies.

Position Summary

The Director, SAP Development is a key leadership role leading all development for PG&E’s Propel program, a major business and technology modernization program to unlock customer value by simplifying the way we work together. Propel will migrate PG&E to the new version of SAP, S/4HANA, seizing this unique opportunity for PG&E to standardize business processes, clean the technology core, and enable innovation for breakthrough change across Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Information Technology.

The Director, SAP Development will report directly to the Senior Director, Development & Operations and be responsible for overseeing all technical workstreams for Propel – the transformation program at PG&E that defines, delivers, and supports business solutions enabled by SAP S/4HANA ERP and adjacent platforms. This role will have technical delivery leadership responsibility for Enterprise Design and four releases (2025-2030) for PG&E’s current ERP transformation program shifting from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA.

Scope of business processes include Design to Operate (DTO), Source to Pay (STP), Inventory to Deliver (ITD), Forecast to Plan (FTP), Record to Report (RTR) and Hire to Retire (HTR). Solutions include: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Fieldglass, EPPM, SAC, BOBJ/BW, BTP and hundreds of non-SAP applications.

This role will lead SAP application development, set up and govern clean core development standards, automate testing and DevOps methodology. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and technical expertise to ensure seamless integration across a diverse application landscape.

The ideal candidate should have long history of delivering SAP projects leading development workstreams and directly managing development team members.

This position will be based at PG&E headquarters in Oakland, California. The candidate must have willingness to commute into the Oakland, California office at least 3 days a week; relocation assistance offered.

Key Skills, Experience and Responsibilities:

• Lead the preparation, execution, and transition of ECC to S/4 with the goal of moving to a clean core.

• Lead all RICEFW development, design scalable architectures, and build clean, maintainable solutions.

• Ensure optimal integration of SAP with other enterprise systems and technologies.

• Manage and execute the transition to a clean core using ABAP cloud and the Business Technology Platform (BTP).

• Develop and maintain development standards and establish KPIs to measure design and code quality and track post-implementation performance.

• Document and manage SOPs for software and information platform systems.

• Monitor project progress, manage resources, and ensure alignment with quality standards.

• Build and lead offshore teams of developers and technologists.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with BASIS, infrastructure, architecture, and functional leaders to achieve results.

• Elevate team members' skills and knowledge of SAP's latest technologies and trends using various forums like training sessions, code jams, and hackathons.

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Transformational Leadership:

• Demonstrates a holistic view of the engineering, asset and work management and delivers a compelling enterprise vision of how the technology platforms can contribute to growth and performance.

• Creates long-term goals that inspire others and demonstrate innovative thinking.

• Plots a path from the present to the future and understands what must change to get there.

Strategic Mindset

• Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

• Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.

• Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.

• Maintaining an environment of open dialog and free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires

• Using various- communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.

• Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Optimizes Team Performance

• Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.

• Creating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.

Values Diversity and Creates Inclusion

• Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Fiscally Responsible

• Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.

• Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Leads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner

• Sponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes ethics, safety and compliance.

• Building on necessary level of industry, company and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.

Provides a High Level of Customer Service

• Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field.

• 10+ years of hands-on experience as a technologist and expert in SAP development languages and platforms (SAP ABAP, BTP application development).

• At least 2 full lifecycle ERP transformation programs enabled by SAP S4/HANA

• Broad technical architecture knowledge SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, BTP and SAP cloud solutions

• Experience in governing development across multiple projects simultaneously to ensure adherence to development standards.

Preferred

• Experience leading offshore teams of developers.

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• S/4 migration and implementation experience from a single instance using bluefield and greenfield approaches.

• Applied experience in SAP Activate Methodology and/or similar methodologies used by system integrators

• Delivered large complex SAP programs as delivery lead from big 4 consulting firm

• Experience in working in global setting where global design was established and realized

Compensation

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $186,000

Bay Area Maximum: $316,000

Director and Senior Director level roles are also eligible to participate in short and long term incentive programs (STIP and LTIP)