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Manager, AMS/SAP Platform Administration and Support

Date Posted: 10/22/2026
Req ID: 50128
Faculty/Division: VP-People, Finance & Digital Services
Department: AMS/SAP Platform Administration and Support
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Existing Vacancy: Yes

Description:

Reporting to the Associate Director, AMS/SAP, the incumbent manages a collaborative and highly skilled team responsible for the technical design, administration, security, operations, and continuous evolution of the University's SAP technical ecosystem. They provide leadership for the enterprise SAP platform, encompassing on-premises licenses and cloud-based SAP subscription technologies, SAP integration processes, supporting technology platforms, and the growing portfolio of third-party enterprise applications and services that extend and integrate with the University's SAP landscape.

The incumbent collaborates closely with other EASI teams and the University’s SAP-based application primary stakeholders to investigate, advise, and assist in formulating, advancing and maximizing the value of UofT’s investment in SAP technology. The position will take a lead role in the value exploration of SAP-related technology, identifying opportunities to accelerate business innovation, gain efficiencies and transform mission-critical systems, and will inform EASI leadership and principal stakeholders on these opportunities. They will advise on and contribute to the University’s SAP technical strategy and roadmap by researching, recommending and optimizing its enterprise SAP platform services and capabilities. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring the SAP technical environment is resilient, scalable, secure,



and aligned with institutional standards, and business priorities. They oversee the planning, design, implementation, optimization, and lifecycle management of SAP platform services while ensuring the technical foundation supports reliable operations, future modernization initiatives, and evolving business capabilities.

The incumbent will also work closely with ITS Information Security, SAP, other vendors, and specialists at peer universities to research, design, build and execute a sustainable technical environment, ensuring the University’s SAP platform supports enterprise-level solutions that meet or exceed the standards, policies and security requirements of the University and technology best practices.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:

- Undergraduate degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., computer science, applied mathematics, engineering, statistics) or relevant combination of education and experience.

EXPERIENCE:

- Minimum ten (10) years’ related experience in a complex enterprise-level environment as a technical and project lead, designing, delivering and supporting institution-wide SAP solutions and their technology platforms which includes a minimum five (5) years of hands‑on SAP BASIS administration, SAP Configuration and ABAP development experience.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure cloud,



SAP solutions design, SAP Agile methodology and project planning, streamlining operational processes, and technical leadership.
- Experience in using DevOps and Agile methodologies.
- Experience leading complex and diverse, multi-stakeholder projects.
- Experience in negotiating sensitive and complex agreements.
- Experience in team building, training, mentoring, and managing highly technical staff.
- Experience negotiating with service providers, establishing and monitoring service level agreements.

SKILLS:

- Solid experience and hands‑on administration and troubleshooting of the SAP Platform resources including but not limited to: SAP Configuration, SAP BASIS Administration, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Integration Suite and PI, SAP Security, SAP Single Sign-On, SAP HANA, S4/HANA, SAP Fiori, SAP Enterprise Portal, SAP Content Server, SAP Business Technology Platform, DB2.
- Strong skills with technical solutions design, system planning, development and design, networking and computer infrastructure, capacity management, disaster recovery planning, changeover planning for complex and critical enterprise applications.
- Highly adept at conducting research into technical or project-related products and issues, to continually improve solutions and processes as technology changes.
- Exceptional business acumen, and ability to liaise with and gain agreement from a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong writing, communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to produce high quality, comprehensive communications materials and articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audienc

📌 Manager, AMS/SAP Platform Administration and Support (Toronto)
🏢 University of Toronto
📍 Toronto