Municipal energy utility scaling hydrogen transition and SAP infrastructure
Hamburger Energiewerke is Hamburg's 100%-municipal utility provider managing the city's energy supply across thermal, renewable, and emerging hydrogen sectors. The technical stack is heavily SAP-centric (BTP, S/4HANA, ECC, HANA, Integration Suite) with secondary depth in enterprise identity and data tools (Azure AD, SAML, Oracle, PostgreSQL), reflecting a large-scale utility managing grid operations and billing at enterprise maturity. Active hiring is engineering-focused (20 of 33 roles), with a Technical Managing Director vacancy signaling leadership investment in IT transformation—critical given the stated pain point of legacy SAP modernization alongside a concurrent hydrogen electrolyzer deployment project.
Notable leadership hires: Technical Managing Director
Hamburger Energiewerke supplies electricity, gas, district heating, and renewable energy to Hamburg residents and businesses. Founded in 2022 as a municipal restructuring, the company operates across geothermal, wind, solar rooftop, and emerging hydrogen infrastructure. The organization is mid-sized (501–1,000 employees) with operations spanning grid management, power plant operations, and customer-facing energy services. Core technical and operational functions center on SAP ECC and S/4HANA environments; the business is actively modernizing legacy systems while simultaneously executing major capital projects including hydrogen electrolyzer construction and thermal network expansion. Hiring velocity is accelerating, concentrated in engineering roles needed to support grid modernization and hydrogen transition initiatives.
SAP-primary stack: S/4HANA, ECC, BTP, HANA, and Integration Suite. Secondary systems include Azure AD, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Microsoft 365. Also operates CAD and GIS for grid and infrastructure design.
Hydrogen electrolyzer plant construction, S/4 ERP transformation, grid modernization for hydrogen integration, coal-to-hydrogen power plant conversion, and solar rooftop deployment (PV-Aufdachanlagen).
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