SAP Futures Environments Manager

Requirements

• Environment baseline and landscape map

• ? Build one current-state map of every SAP Futures environment: ECC, PO, Gateway, SuccessFactors instances, Concur, BTP and Integration Suite tenants, IAS/IPS and Content Server.


• ? Record for each environment: purpose, system and client, version, owner, users, connected systems, data currency and current usage (programme, BAU or both).


• ? Identify gaps, conflicts and single points of failure, including environments shared between programme and BAU.

SAP Futures Environment Strategy & Roadmap

• ? Define the target environment landscape across DEV, SIT, UAT, training, regression and production for each product.


• ? Set out how environments connect: integration and connectivity paths, identity and authentication (IAS/IPS, SSO), and which non-production systems talk to each other.


• ? Define ownership, BAU versus programme usage, provisioning lead times and the Concur Phase 2 environment needs.


• ? Plan the transition-state landscape for the future S/4HANA conversion, including which ECC and PO environments must stay until then.


• ? Take the strategy through the Technical Review Board for sign-off.

Environment operating model

• ? Set up an environment booking and scheduling process so test phases, training and BAU fixes do not clash.


• ? Define the data refresh and test data approach for each environment, covering refresh frequency, anonymisation and GDPR requirements.


• ? Agree transport and release management rules across ECC, SuccessFactors, Concur and Integration Suite, aligned with CAB.


• ? Define environment entry and exit criteria for each test phase.

Ongoing responsibilities

• ? Act as environments lead at Technical Review Board, CAB and design authority sessions.


• ? Keep environment risks, issues and dependencies current in the programme RAID log, and report progress weekly to the SAP Technical Programme Manager.


• ? Maintain the environment register, booking calendar and refresh schedule.


• ? Manage environment access requests and periodic access reviews with Security and Basis.

Key deliverables

• ? A current-state environment register covering every SAP Futures system, with an owner and purpose for each environment.


• ? A signed-off SAP Futures Environment Strategy & Roadmap, including the S/4HANA transition-state landscape.


• ? An agreed environment operating model: booking and scheduling, data refresh and test data, transport and release management, and entry and exit criteria.


• ? An environment plan aligned with the programme plan, with readiness confirmed before each test phase and training event.


• ? A handover pack so D&T can run the environments in BAU after the programme.

Role boundaries

The Environments Manager owns the environment strategy, plan and operating model. These stay elsewhere:

• ? System builds, client copies and Basis configuration - SAP Basis team. This role sets requirements and schedules the work.


• ? SuccessFactors build and tenant configuration under the SoW - NTT DATA. This role assures environment readiness rather than building it.


• ? Integration design and the integration catalogue - SAP Futures Integration Lead. This role makes sure environments are connected to match that design.


• ? Identity, SSO and Concur IC add-on decisions - SAP Technical Programme Manager.


• ? Test strategy, test scripts and test data content - programme test lead. This role provides the environments and refresh approach that testing depends on.

Essential experience

• ? Proven SAP environment management experience on a major transformation programme.


• ? Hands-on knowledge of SAP landscapes across ECC and cloud products, including SuccessFactors and BTP.


• ? Track record of writing environment strategies and roadmaps covering DEV, SIT, UAT, training, regression and production.


• ? Experience running environment booking, data refresh and test data processes, including data anonymisation.


• ? Strong understanding of SAP transport and release management, and of change control through CAB.


• ? Confident working with Basis teams, a systems integrator (SI) and SAP, and holding them to agreed timelines.


• ? Clear communicator with technical teams, testers, trainers and business stakeholders.

Desirable experience

• ? Higher education experience.


• ? SAP Concur and S/4HANA environment planning, including ECC to S/4HANA conversion landscapes.


• ? SAP Integration Suite and PO environments and connectivity.


• ? Identity environments (SAP IAS/IPS or similar) and SSO across non-production systems.


• ? Release and transport tools such as SAP Cloud ALM, Solution Manager ChaRM or similar.


• ? GDPR-compliant test data management in non-production systems.

#J-18808-Ljbffr