Job Description Summary

The Global Senior Solution Engineer for SAP transport management is responsible for overseeing and managing the SAP transport landscape across multiple systems (e.g., DEV, QA, PROD). This role ensures the controlled, secure, and efficient movement of SAP objects and changes, supporting system stability, compliance, and release management processes.
The role combines hands-on technical expertise with organizational responsibilities, ensuring efficient delivery, adherence to standards, and alignment with business, architectural and compliance requirements.
The Global Senior Solution Engineer for SAP transport management plays a key role in driving technical excellence, SAP system stability, mentoring team members, and collaborating closely with functional and ABAP Solution Owners and Engineers as well as Architects.

Job Description

Position Purpose:

The Global Senior Solution Engineer for SAP transport management is responsible for overseeing and managing the SAP transport landscape across multiple systems (e.g., DEV, QA, PROD). This role ensures the controlled, secure, and efficient movement of SAP objects and changes, supporting system stability, compliance, and release management processes.

The role combines hands-on technical expertise with organizational responsibilities, ensuring efficient delivery, adherence to standards, and alignment with business, architectural and compliance requirements.

The Global Senior Solution Engineer for SAP transport management plays a key role in driving technical excellence, SAP system stability, mentoring team members, and collaborating closely with functional and ABAP Solution Owners and Engineers as well as Architects.

Your Key Responsibilities: 

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to

Transport Management

• Manage the SAP Transport Management and Release Management across the system landscape
• Coordinate and control all transport requests, including imports and exports
• Ensure transports are migrated between environments following defined procedures
• Monitor transport queues and resolve transport-related errors or conflicts
• Schedule transports according to release windows and business priorities
• Support emergency transport handling and production fixes

Quality & Compliance

• Enforce transport governance, naming conventions, and documentation standards
• Ensure segregation of duties and audit compliance in transport activities
• Maintain logs and documentation for audit readiness
• Support internal and external audits related to SAP changes

Process Improvement

• Optimize transport workflows and automation
• Implement best practices for SAP transport management
• Support implementation of tools such as SAP ChaRM, CTS+, or third-party solutions
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in SAP operations

What you’ll bring to the role: 

Essential Requirements: 

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, IT, or related field.

Fluent English required (oral and written).

• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience with SAP Transport Management System (TMS)
• Experience with SAP Basis administration and CHARM (Change Request Management) in SAP Solution Manager
• Understanding of CTS / CTS+ and dual-track landscapes
• Experience with SAP environments (ECC, S/4HANA, BW, etc.)
• Experience in regulated environments (GxP, SOX compliance)

Why Sandoz? 

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health. 

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.  

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!  

  

Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.  

 Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:  

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve. 

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Skills Desired

Agile Project Management, Business Partnering, Change Management, IT Service Delivery, Performance Management