SAP Payments Chapter Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: Chapter Lead for SAP Payments

• Focus: Lead a team of SAP Payments experts, develop skills and agile ways of working, and advance an AI strategy for the payments domain.

Description

You will lead and develop a chapter of SAP Payments experts with responsibility for Payments systems, while shaping the chapter and furthering AI-supported ways of working. You’ll advise on technology and strategy topics including SAP FS-CD and banking communication, and identify practical AI and agentic AI use cases within existing system and architecture boundaries. You will also drive innovation and change through the chapter and support cross-site collaboration and agile organizational development.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional and disciplinary leadership for a chapter of experts; develop competencies, collaboration, and the technical direction.

• Advise on technological and strategic questions for Payments, including SAP FS-CD and bank communication.

• Develop a future-oriented AI strategy and identify concrete AI and agentic AI use cases within current system and architecture limits.

• Promote innovation and change; co-create new AI-supported ways of working with your chapter.

• Coordinate cross-site collaboration, strengthen knowledge exchange, and build a shared professional identity of the chapter.

• Provide guidance to executives and stakeholders on technology, strategy, and organizational topics; actively shape the further development of an agile organization.

Requirements

• Degree in Business Informatics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration with an IT focus, or a comparable program.

• Multi-year experience leading IT experts and working in SAP environments.

• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP FS-CD, Payments, and common IT architecture and strategy methods.

• Ability to develop experts, plan skills structurally, and accompany change processes in a supportive, empathetic way.

• Experience structuring meetings and collaborating with Product Owners and Agile Masters.

• Experience in cross-functional squads and agile rituals; willingness to drive knowledge sharing and build a strong professional community.

• Ability to involve relevant stakeholders early, communicate roadmaps clearly across hierarchy levels, and build consensus in complex coordination situations.

• Customer and service orientation: structured requirements intake, value-based prioritization, proactive support for solution needs, and willingness to grow into complex Payments (FS-CD) domain topics.

Benefits

• Up to 60% home office and flexible working hours (6–21).

• 30 vacation days plus additional days off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

• Health and fitness offerings, company pension plan, and employer benefits.

• Christmas and vacation pay, performance bonus, and mobility allowances.

• Opportunities for diverse personal development.

• Encourages applicants even if they don’t meet every requirement.