SAP & Corporate Systems Tech Lead

About the role

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 respons