**We help the world run better** At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. \#SAPECSCareers **WHAT YOULL DO:** You, as our Lead of Applications Root Cause Analysis will: + Implement and drive the necessary processes and services to follow up on outages, failed service requests, customer escalations and other IT problems. + Coordinate the globally distributed team members who are participating in root cause analysis for applications and ensure they come to consistent results. + In areas beyond our teams responsibility, you will drive efficient collaboration with the corresponding other teams inside and outside ECS. + In case of customer concerns, you will also act as an escalation contact supported by the corresponding experts of the global application team. + Identify & drive initiatives to increase quality of cloud operations, reduce outages, improve efficiency and collaboration. + Beyond RCAs, you will ensure agreed deliverables e.g. improvement action items are delivered in time and reoccurring problem patterns are identified and addressed in projects. + With your broad knowledge on SAP applications, you can also provide technical advice to stakeholders as well as guide your team members. + Directly support customer success by occasionally taking part in the rotational role assignment as the ECS Manager on Duty. **WHAT YOU BRING:** + Proven record and ability to motivate, coach, and lead teams with or without formal authority. + Proven Experience in Project Management. Planning and tracking deliverables in a structured and transparent way. + Communication with customers on technical, service and operations topics, ability to handle escalated customer cases up to senior management level. + Cloud and Customer Mindset and previous experience in Cloud Operations or Support organizations for private cloud or public cloud offerings. + Strong understanding of the processes and working models of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services. + Solid understanding of SAP application technology used by ECS esp. the S/4HANA and SAP ABAP platform from a Basis technology perspective + Very good networking and communication skills towards stakeholders inside and outside SAP, e.g. customers, other ECS teams, Tool Development, Product Development, Product Support etc. + Very good English language skills + 12 years relevant IT experience **MEET THE TEAM:** Within the Product Engineering board area, the mission of the Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) Delivery organization is to run and operate SAPs private cloud offering. Isolated private cloud landscapes are built for customers both in SAP owned datacenter as well as on IaaS infrastructure provided by hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services (AWS). ECS delivered services include backups, patching, provisioning and upgrades, restore and disaster recovery, infrastructure monitoring and event detection. Services are delivered from all regions (EMEA/MEE/AMER/APJ) having a strong international focus and cultural diversity. **Bring out your best** SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. 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Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training. **EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability** Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. **Compensation Range Transparency** : SAPbelieves the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAPs commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 184200 - 313200(USD) USD.The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidatewill be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills,experience, scope ofthe role, location, etc. as determinedthrough theselection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits (https://www.sapnorthamericabenefits.com/en/public/welcome) . Requisition ID: 412911| Work Area:Information Technology| Expected Travel: 0 - 20%| Career Status: Professional| Employment Type: Regular Full Time| Additional Locations:#LI-Hybrid