SAP Validation Lead

The SAP Validation Lead will be responsible for leading Computer System Validation (CSV) activities and ensuring compliant execution of validation processes for SAP S/4

HANA programs within a regulated GxP environment. This role will drive validation planning, risk-based assessments, execution oversight, defect management, and release readiness activities across SAP implementations, upgrades, integrations, and data migration initiatives. Working closely with business, quality, compliance, and technology teams, the SAP Validation Lead will ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, data integrity principles, and corporate quality standards while supporting successful delivery of enterprise SAP transformation programs.

* Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

As an SAP Validation Lead
, you will play a key role in governing and executing validation activities across SAP S/4

HANA initiatives, ensuring systems and processes meet regulatory, quality, and business requirements. You will establish validation approaches, lead risk-based validation assessments, oversee validation lifecycle activities, and ensure appropriate documentation, traceability, and compliance controls are maintained throughout project delivery.

In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to support validation planning, testing oversight, defect management, release readiness reviews, and compliance assessments. You will help drive consistency in validation processes across SAP functional areas, monitor quality and compliance risks, and support audit and inspection readiness activities.

The ideal candidate is an experienced validation professional with strong expertise in SAP S/4

HANA, Computer System Validation (CSV), and GxP-regulated environments. This individual will bring a proven track record of leading validation programs, managing complex SAP implementations, and driving quality and compliance excellence across enterprise-wide business transformation initiatives.

• Define and maintain the enterprise SAP S/4
  
  HANA validation strategy and governance framework.
• Support establishing validation standards, procedures, templates, and best practices aligned with regulatory requirements and company SOPs.
• Lead risk-based validation assessments for projects, enhancements, releases, interfaces, reports, and data migrations.
• Establish and govern the Validation approach, methodology, Validation planning and standards.
• Govern validation lifecycle execution from requirements through release approval.
• Drive standardization of validation methodologies across SAP functional streams and integrated systems.
• Ensure compliance with GxP regulations, computerized system validation requirements, data integrity principles, and corporate quality policies.
• Ensure appropriate documentation, traceability, and validation evidence are maintained.
• Define and govern defect lifecycle, logging, classification, severity and priority, triage, aging, service-level expectations, root cause analysis, duplicate and invalid handling, and deferral controls.
• Facilitate governance-level defect reviews and escape quality risks, unresolved critical defects, overdue actions, and decision gaps.
• Ensure defect trends and risk exposure are visible to accountable stakeholders and appropriately considered in readiness decisions.
• Define and maintain Validation metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and report standards for execution progress, coverage, defects, aging, trends, automation, risks, and readiness.
• Review validation documentation for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
• Ensure end-to-end requirements traceability from requirements through testing and defect…