Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Join the transformation of SCE’s operations with our $1B+ NextGen Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) program. We are modernizing processes and systems, migrating to SAP’s next-gen ERP software, and enabling new digital solutions to enhance automation, integrate AI, and improve data quality.

We are seeking a senior technical leader to head our Data Transformation, Deployment & Cutover team within the Technical Integration department within our NextGen ERP program. As a Principal Manager, you will lead a team of senior managers, technical leads, and partners to oversee data transformation, including profiling, cleansing, cataloguing, conversion, governance, and archiving. You will also define and manage the enterprise-wide cutover strategy across multiple releases and platforms, ensuring readiness through mock cutovers, dress rehearsals, and simulations.

This role ensures enterprise readiness with stakeholders, IT, and business resiliency. You will manage the transition to steady-state operations, support model activation, documentation handoff, and stabilization, while establishing governance processes across teams, vendors, and partners. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a multi-year ERP program transforming the electric utility industry.

Key Focus Areas:

• Program & Project Management: Manage the full lifecycle of solution development and deployment. Lead cross-functional teams including architects, engineers, and program managers. Drive Agile practices to ensure delivery of business outcomes.
• Data Transformation: Lead automated profiling, cleansing, conversion, governance, and archiving across various domains.
• Deployment/Cutover: Ensure system, technology, and organizational readiness, manage cutovers, and oversee integration and governance.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with business and IT leaders to define and deliver technology solutions. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders for architecture, QA, and deployment. Communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• People & Vendor Management: Mentor and guide a hybrid team of technical and project leaders. Manage vendor relationships to ensure alignment with program goals.
• Financial Oversight: Manage budgets and financial planning for technical initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field. Advanced degrees are preferred.
• Experience providing IT leadership for large, complex or enterprise-level projects/ programs with substantial systems integration components.
• Five (5) or more years of experience leading and mentoring a team of direct reports that consist of senior technical managers, project managers, and consultants.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience in Information Technology Program Management or large enterprise IT Project Management, including scope, schedule and budget.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience working in infrastructure and technical platform strategy development and execution;. building large-scale distributed systems and applications, including design, development, (distributed) architectures, networking, security, and performance tuning.
• Five (5) or more years of experience designing technical migration processes in support of migrating on-premises environments to cloud environments and operating models in support of SAP ERP implementations.
• Experience with SAP S4/HANA and/or SAP ecosystem applications (examples: Asset Manager, SuccessFactors, Ariba, ECC, EAM, Finance, etc..), having executed at least 1 full lifecycle SAP ERP or S/4 cloud migrations. 
• One or more of the following certification(s) 
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) 
  • Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) 
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 
  • Technical Certifications from AWS or Microsoft Azure, such as AWS Solution Architect. 
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent certification(s) (e.g. CSPO, CSP, CSD, DASM, SSM, PSM, PSPO, or A–CSM)\ 
  • SAP ACTIVATE  

Additional Information 

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. 
• Position will require up to 10% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory. 
• Relocation may apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don’t just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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