Core Platforms Engineering Team Lead

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. Location Liebherr IT Shared Service Centre Ibérica, S.
L. Parque Norte. Alamo building Serrano Galvache, Madrid Spain (ES) #J-18808-Ljbffr