SAP & Corporate Systems Tech Lead

Job Description

Come Make an Impact on Millions of Brazilians!

At RecargaPay, we’re on a mission to deliver the best payment experience for Brazilian consumers and small businesses, by building a powerful digital ecosystem where the banked and unbanked connect, and where consumers and merchants have a one-stop shop for all their financial needs.

We serve over 10 million users and process more than USD 4 billion annually. We’ve been profitable since 2022 and operate our own credit business. We are an AI-first, 100% remote team, scaling in the rapidly changing Brazilian financial market.

Our goal? Deliver the best payment experience in Brazil for people and small businesses alike.

We value autonomy, ownership, and a bias for action. We’re looking for people who are curious, hands-on, and driven by impact, who want to solve real problems, work with strong teams, and rethink what’s possible.

If you’re ready to do your best work, at scale, with purpose, this is your place.

Responsibilities

As SAP & Corporate Systems Tech Lead, you will be the founding hands-on technical leader for RecargaPay’s SAP and Corporate Systems capability. You will be responsible for the stability, evolution, integration, and technical governance of our SAP S/4HANA platform and the surrounding ecosystem of corporate applications across Finance, HR, Legal, Audit, Compliance, and Procurement. 

This is a founding role. You will help build RecargaPay’s internal SAP and Corporate Systems technical capability from the ground up, reducing dependency on external partners, creating governance standards, and establishing the operating model required to support a regulated, fast-growing fintech. 

You will work in close partnership with the squad's Product Owner, who owns product direction, business stakeholder management, vendor relationships, and RFI/RFP processes. Your role is to lead the technical execution of the roadmap, establish engineering and governance standards for SAP and Corporate Systems, and ensure that every change is observable, auditable, secure, and aligned with applicable regulatory frameworks such as BACEN, LGPD, Brazilian fiscal requirements, and SOX where applicable. 

This is a deeply hands-on role. You are expected to stay close to the system and the team: reviewing and validating configurations,  leading version upgrades and module updates, applying SAP Notes related to fiscal, legal, and regulatory changes, debugging production incidents, tuning HANA performance, governing transports, and pairing with Basis engineers, Functional Specialists, implementation partners, and internal engineering teams when needed.  

Your leadership is exercised through proximity to the team: leading by example, reviewing configurations and changes, and acting as Tier 3 escalation for the most complex incidents. You are the primary technical reference of the squad and the main technical interface with Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, internal Specialists, and external implementation partners.

Champion a “clean-core / SAP-Minimalist” strategy, ensuring that S/4HANA remains as standard and maintainable as possible by prioritizing API-first integrations, avoiding unnecessary customizations, and moving non-core or highly variable business logic to external automation and orchestration layers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the hands-on technical execution of the squad’s roadmap in partnership with the Product Owner, ensuring delivery quality, operational continuity, compliance and regulatory alignment, and sustainable technical decisions across SAP and Corporate Systems. 
• Own the technical governance  and evolution, taking action as required ,  of the SAP S/4HANA landscape end to end, including release upgrades, support packs, kernel updates, system refreshes, environment strategy, Basis activities, and coordination with external partners where applicable.
• Define and implement the SAP and Corporate Systems operating model, including demand intake, prioritization criteria, ownership boundaries, support model, escalation paths, governance forums, change and release management, documentation standards, and lifecycle management. 
• Define operational health indicators for SAP and Corporate Systems, including availability, job failures, interface errors, transport quality, incident recurrence, audit findings, SLA adherence, and business-impacting failures. 
• Define integration patterns between SAP and the broader corporate ecosystem, prioritizing API-first, event-driven where applicable, secure, auditable, and loosely coupled architectures. 
• Lead, hands-on, the adaptation of the SAP platform to fiscal, legal, and regulatory updates impacting Brazil and LATAM, including SAP Notes adoption, baseline alignment, master data impacts, and coordination with the Functional Specialist for the modules currently in scope.
• Oversee and actively support SAP HANA administration practices, including system replication, backup and recovery, performance tuning, capacity planning, and incident response, ensuring that internal teams and partners follow reliable and auditable standards.
• Govern the Transport Management System (STMS) and Change Request Management (ChaRM on Solution Manager 7.2 or SAP Cloud ALM), ensuring safe and traceable changes across DEV, QAS, and PRD.
• Define and enforce SAP security baselines: user lifecycle, SoD principles, SSO, audit logs, and certificate management aligned with LGPD, BACEN, and SOX where applicable.
• Establish master data governance practices for critical SAP objects such as Business Partner, chart of accounts, cost centers, legal entities, vendors, employees, tax data, approval hierarchies, and authorization-relevant attributes. 
• Operate and evolve SAP environments on cloud (RISE with SAP or AWS, depending on the landscape), including HA/DR strategy, sizing, and cost awareness.
• Champion the “SAP-Minimalist” strategy, keeping the S/4HANA core clean by prioritizing API exposure and shifting non-core business logic to external automation layers.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for the integration and continuous evolution of non-SAP corporate platforms (e.g., HRIS, Legal Tech, GRC tools), ensuring a cohesive and auditable tech stack — while the Product Owner leads vendor selection, RFI/RFP, and contract governance.
• Run technical rituals for the squad: design sessions, change advisory boards, post-mortems, patch planning, and tech debt grooming.
• Act as the internal technical authority for SAP and Corporate Systems, reviewing solution designs, estimates, configurations, transports, integrations, security impacts, documentation, and production readiness for work delivered by internal teams or external implementation partners. 
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex production incidents, serving as Tier 3 escalation and ensuring durable corrective actions.
• Promote responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools (Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) for scripting, log analysis, runbook generation, and documentation.
• Define team objectives and contribute to technical goals , ensuring alignment with the company's broader strategies and objectives.
• Facilitate communication within the squad and across technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment and timely delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Actively participate in the recruitment, training, and development of team members, fostering a productive and growth-oriented environment.
• Collaborate with other Tech Leads, aligning technology strategies and contributing to the evolution of the company's technical direction.
• Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration in your team.
• Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement efforts, driving team evolution through feedback and actionable insights.
• Support team staffing decisions by matching people to tasks based on skills, priorities, and development opportunities.
• Support the definition and follow-up of individual development goals aligned with team objectives and business priorities.

Requirements

• Academic background in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent technical experience in SAP Basis / SAP platform operations. 

• Experience acting as the internal technical authority for SAP implementation partners or managed service providers, with the ability to review and challenge solution designs, estimates, configurations, transports, integration impacts, security decisions, documentation, cutover plans, and production-readiness criteria. 
• Strong understanding of SAP clean-core principles, extensibility patterns, API-first integration, and the trade-offs between standard configuration, custom development, BTP extensions, integration middleware, and external automation or orchestration layers.  
• Solid hands-on experience operating or technically governing productive SAP S/4HANA landscapes, including SUM-based release upgrades, support packages, kernel updates, SAP Notes lifecycle management, system refreshes, technical troubleshooting, and production support. 
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with SAP HANA operational practices, including HANA System Replication, backup and recovery, backup validation, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and incident troubleshooting. 
• Strong experience with SAP transport and change governance using STMS and ChaRM / Solution Manager 7.2 or SAP Cloud ALM, including release coordination, emergency changes, approvals, traceability, segregation of duties, and audit evidence. 
• Functional understanding of the SAP modules currently in scope, with FI and CO at minimum, including Universal Journal, Business Partner, tax determination, account determination, financial postings, master data impacts, and key integration points with external systems. Knowledge of MM, SD, Treasury, Procurement, or HR-related SAP processes is a strong plus. 
• Working knowledge of SAP platform security, including technical users, SSO, certificates, audit logs, role transport controls, emergency access support, and collaboration with Security/GRC teams on SoD-related controls. 
• Working knowledge of Linux administration, preferably SUSE or RHEL, and scripting experience with shell, Python, or equivalent languages for automation, monitoring, operational analysis, and reliability improvements. 
• Experience operating or governing SAP landscapes on cloud or managed SAP platforms such as RISE with SAP and/or AWS, including HA/DR strategy, backup validation, sizing, performance baselines, vendor coordination, and cost awareness. 
• Experience leading technical squads or technical workstreams in fast-paced environments, including technical roadmap execution, architecture and configuration reviews, partner delivery reviews, mentorship, incident prioritization, and close partnership with a Product Owner. 
• Practical experience in regulated or high-volume environments such as fintech, banking, payments, retail, or e-commerce, with exposure to compliance frameworks such as BACEN, LGPD, or SOX, and Brazilian fiscal complexity such as NF-e, SPED, ICMS, PIS, COFINS, ISS, and IRRF. LATAM localization experience beyond Brazil is a strong plus. 
• Experience coordinating technical adaptations of SAP platforms to fiscal, legal, and regulatory changes, including SAP Notes adoption, version baseline alignment, master data impacts, transport planning, regression support, and validation of fiscal or financial flows in partnership with functional specialists and external partners. 
• Experience with SAP BTP, Cloud Connector, and SAP Integration Suite is a strong plus. Familiarity with BW/4HANA or analytics-related SAP components is desirable.  
• Knowledge of or experience with modern SAP transport and development practices such as gCTS, abapGit, and CI/CD applied to SAP assets including Fiori/UI5, BTP, and integration artifacts is desirable. 
• Experience supporting SAP integrations with tax engines or fiscal platforms from a platform and integration perspective, including connectivity, transport coordination, monitoring, error handling, and production readiness.  
• Practical experience applying AI-assisted tools for scripting, documentation, log analysis, coding,  runbook generation, regression support, or operational knowledge management is desirable. 
• Familiarity with the broader Corporate Systems ecosystem, including HRIS, Legal Tech, GRC, Procurement, Finance, Compliance, and workflow / automation platforms, is desirable. Familiarity with localized banking systems in Brazil is a nice-to-have. 
• Familiarity with FinOps and cloud-cost considerations for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition, RISE with SAP, or SAP workloads on AWS is a strong plus. 
• SAP certifications in S/4HANA Technology, SAP HANA Technology, SAP NetWeaver Technology, SAP BTP, or SAP Integration Suite are desirable. 
• Experience building or improving internal SAP platform governance, documentation, support models, monitoring practices, or operating standards is highly desirable. 
• Experience defining or improving SAP operating models, including support levels, escalation paths, release participation, transport governance, environment strategy, partner handoffs, documentation standards, and audit evidence practices. 
• Experience with SAP observability and reliability practices, including job monitoring, interface monitoring, HANA health indicators, availability, performance baselines, certificate expiration alerts, backup validation, incident recurrence analysis, and operational dashboards. 
• Experience defining integration patterns between SAP and external corporate systems, prioritizing API-first, secure, auditable, loosely coupled, and maintainable architectures. 
• Experience producing or governing technical evidence for audits, including transport approvals, change logs, access reviews, incident records, recovery test evidence, backup evidence, and operational control documentation. 
• Fluent Portuguese and advanced Spanish and English required given LATAM operations.
  

Soft Skills

• Ability to build structure in ambiguous environments, creating standards, governance, documentation, and decision-making mechanisms where they do not yet exist. 
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating alignment and decision-making.
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with Product Owners, Specialists, Engineering, Security, Operations, partners, and other teams or squads in defining priorities and delivering value.
• Experience mentoring engineers, guiding career development, and fostering a growth-oriented, high-performance team environment.
• Technical leadership through proximity, leading by example with strong day-to-day, hands-on presence in the SAP landscape.
• Capacity to make thoughtful, context-aware decisions that balance technical debt, delivery speed, business impact, risk, and compliance.
• Ability to recognize team dynamics, support team members through challenges, and cultivate psychological safety.
• Proactive in owning outcomes, addressing blockers, and ensuring that the squad delivers on commitments.
• Comfortable working in changing, regulated environments — reprioritizing as needed and adjusting to new business, regulatory, or technical demands, including high-pressure cutover windows.
• Skilled in managing disagreements constructively and promoting consensus through dialogue.
• Capable of influencing product and technical decisions at squad level and beyond, aligning technical initiatives with broader company goals.
• Oriented toward retrospectives, feedback loops, and implementing process and culture improvements.
• High degree of autonomy and accountability, with a bias for action and results-oriented problem solving, combined with strong documentation and audit-trail discipline.
• Comfort operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, flexing between system design, configuration, and stakeholder engagement as needed.
• Ability to make decisions based on accurate information, technical indicators, and impact metrics, using data to prioritize initiatives, guide trade-offs, and measure success.
• Pragmatic modernization mindset: balancing strict regulatory compliance with a long-term vision of a decoupled, API-first enterprise architecture.

Industry-Specific Knowledge

It is highly desirable for the Tech Lead SAP to have experience operating SAP technology in fintech, banking, payments, retail, or e-commerce environments, particularly companies with multiple legal entities and LATAM fiscal complexity, where regulatory frameworks (BACEN, LGPD, SOX where applicable) shape platform decisions. Strong candidates will have led platform adaptations driven by recurring fiscal, legal, and regulatory changes in Brazil and LATAM, current examples in the portfolio include the SAP S/4HANA release upgrade cycle and the Brazilian Tax Reform (Reforma Tributária) transition, with new initiatives expected each year as the regulatory landscape evolves.

Benefits

• Competitive and market-aligned salary.

• Remote work — wherever you are, you’re part of the team!
• Home office allowance through a monthly deposit in the RecargaPay app.
• Health and dental plans with no co-pay.
• Life insurance.
• Flexible meal allowance (via Flash).
• TotalPass membership to take care of your health.

Diversity & Inclusion at RecargaPay

At RecargaPay, you’ll have the freedom to be who you are because we believe that diverse perspectives and experiences make us more creative and stronger. Here, everyone is welcome to express themselves authentically. We value the richness of each journey and the multiple ways of seeing the world, without distinctions of gender, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, or any other characteristic that makes us unique.

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Industry-Specific Knowledge

It is desirable to have practical familiarity with one or more core financial domains such as lending, payments, credit cards, open finance, fraud prevention, merchant acquiring, or investment services, along with an understanding of their fundamental workflows and business drivers. Experience in how these domains intersect to influence revenue, risk management, and customer satisfaction is highly valued.

Ideally, candidates will have applied this knowledge to deliver solutions such as loan-origination engines with real-time decisioning; scalable payment-processing platforms integrated with core banking systems and third-party gateways; secure open-finance interfaces compliant with industry regulations; automated fraud-detection pipelines leveraging behavioral analytics; or financial reporting and reconciliation engines for regulatory compliance. The ability to translate complex compliance mandates (e.g., KYC/AML, PCI-DSS, GDPR) into resilient, high-performance systems without compromising user experience is considered a strong asset.