Core Platforms Engineering Team Lead (m/f/d)

Join Liebherr, a global leader in engineering and manufacturing, as we advance our digital transformation journey. We are looking for a motivated Core Platforms Engineering Team Lead (m/f/d) to play a key role in our newly established SAP & Digital Center in Madrid.

Creating passion: your responsibilities

• Own and manage Liebherr’s core platforms, including the SAP S/4HANA landscape and Azure-based environments supporting Microsoft Dynamics 365, ensuring stability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Define and enforce platform standards, governance frameworks, and best practices, ensuring alignment with Liebherr’s global architecture and transformation programs.
• Lead and develop a team of platform specialists and technical architects across SAP, Azure, testing, release management, and authorization domains, fostering a high-performing and collaborative environment.
• Oversee change and release management processes, ensuring controlled, high-quality, and timely deployments across systems and landscapes.
• Ensure the availability and proper operation of testing environments, supporting integration testing, user acceptance testing, and overall delivery readiness.
• Drive robust authorization and access management practices, ensuring compliance with security standards and audit requirements.
• Collaborate closely with Development & Integration teams, Solution Architects, consultants and program leadership to ensure alignment between platform capabilities and delivery needs.
• Manage external partners and service providers, ensuring service quality, performance, and alignment with Liebherr standards.
• Monitor platform performance, risks, and dependencies, proactively identifying improvement opportunities and ensuring continuous optimization.
• Support transformation programs (S/4HANA, Dynamics 365, SAP MDG) by providing a stable and scalable platform foundation aligned with business and IT requirements.
• Travel (up to 30%) to Liebherr sites worldwide to support platform alignment and transformation activities.

Contributing your strengths: your qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in SAP and enterprise platform environments, including strong exposure to SAP S/4HANA landscapes.
• Proven experience leading platform, infrastructure, or technical operations teams in complex, multinational environments.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA landscape architecture, including system environments, transport management, and platform operations (e.g., SAP Basis concepts).
• Solid knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure, and their role in supporting enterprise applications such as Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Experience with change and release management processes, testing lifecycle management, and authorization concepts within large-scale system landscapes.
• Proven ability to operate in large transformation programs, understanding the interaction between platforms, development, integration, and business processes.
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to build, develop, and guide high-performing, cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences and align across multiple domains.
• Experience working with external partners and managing service delivery in a structured and performance-driven manner.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured, pragmatic, and results-oriented mindset.
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Cloud ALM is a plus.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken); additional languages (e.g., German) are an advantage.
• Willingness to travel internationally (up to 30%) as required by project work.

Our commitment to you: your benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package that recognizes your expertise.
• Flexible and hybrid working model.
• Creative freedom and responsibility to shape processes and solutions in our global transformation.
• Continuous learning and development with tailored training and certification opportunities.
• Meal vouchers.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Option to include a premium private health insurance package as part of the flexible remuneration.
• A safe, stable and international workplace within a trusted family business that invests in people. xghoner

Location

Liebherr IT Shared Service Centre Ibérica, S.L.

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Parque Norte. Alamo building Serrano Galvache, 56
28033 Madrid
Spain (ES)

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