Senior Manager of SAP

Overview

Summit Utilities, Inc. is a growing natural gas utility company serving homes and businesses in Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Missouri and Oklahoma. Summit emphasizes safety, excellence, innovation, and community stewardship. We have recognition as a fast-growing private company and as a Best Places to Work in multiple states. We offer remote or hybrid work options.

Senior Manager of SAP
—This position provides overall technical direction, stability, security, and evolution of Summit’s SAP landscape. It operates within a cloud-based SAP S/4

HANA environment on RISE and provides strategic oversight and day-to-day leadership for SAP Security, SAP Basis, Enterprise Architecture, and SAP development teams (ABAP, Fiori/UI5, and SAP BTP). The Senior Manager is the primary technical authority for SAP architecture and platform decisions, ensuring a secure, efficient, scalable environment aligned with business priorities and regulatory requirements typical of a natural gas utility. Partner with IT leadership, functional leaders, and external vendors to establish best practices for system architecture, development standards, performance optimization, and operational excellence;

shape the roadmap for growth, innovation, and AI-enabled capabilities. This role combines deep SAP technical expertise with strong people leadership and a forward-looking mindset; a strong customer service-oriented philosophy is essential. Utilities sector experience is preferred.

• Leadership & People Management
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  Provide leadership, coaching, and performance management for SAP Security, SAP Basis, Enterprise Architecture, and SAP development teams (ABAP, Fiori/UI5, SAP BTP). Support professional development through mentoring, skills advancement, and career pathing. Promote collaboration between architecture, development, security, and operations teams to ensure cohesive solution delivery.
• SAP Technical Architecture & Governance
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  Own and evolve the SAP technical architecture strategy for the S/4
  
  HANA on RISE environment, including core ERP, extensions, integrations, and development platforms. Define and enforce architectural standards and design principles for custom development across ABAP, Fiori, and SAP BTP. Balance innovation with maintainability, performance, and regulatory compliance.
• SAP Development Oversight (ABAP, Fiori, BTP):
  Provide strategic direction for SAP custom development across ABAP, Fiori/UI5, and SAP BTP. Ensure secure coding practices, performance best practices, and SAP-extensibility models. Guide decisions on side-by-side extensions, clean-core principles, and use of SAP BTP services. Establish governance for code quality, transport management, deployment processes, and lifecycle management.
• SAP Basis & Platform Operations
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  Oversee SAP Basis operations, including environment management, transports, upgrades, patching, monitoring, and system refreshes. Ensure system availability, performance stability, and disaster recovery readiness. Drive proactive performance optimization and capacity planning with development and functional teams. Define and track operational metrics for system health.
• SAP Security & Compliance
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  Oversee SAP security architecture, role design, access governance, and segregation-of-duties controls across standard and custom solutions. Ensure security is embedded in development and architectural decisions. Partner with cybersecurity, audit, and compliance teams for reviews, remediation, and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Architecture & Collaboration
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  Guide SAP-related enterprise architecture and its integration with non-SAP platforms and cloud services. Ensure integrations, APIs, and extensions on BTP or other platforms align with architecture principles. Contribute to IT roadmaps to align SAP investments with business strategy.
• Vendor & Stakeholder Partnership
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  Act as senior technical contact for SAP, RISE providers, system integrators, and development partners. Provide technical oversight of vendor-delivered work and ensure adherence to standards. Communicate risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to IT and business leadership.
• Future Evolution &…