SAP Development and Integration Manager

What will you do?

As a team player in the SAP CoE team, you and your team will deliver development, integration, extension and automation services across the organisation’s hybrid SAP estate, including S/4

HANA Finance and GRC on RISE with SAP, SAP ECC HCM on-premise, Success Factors, SAP Data Services, Insurance Analyzer / PaPM transition activities, SAP Fiori and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

You will lead SAP development and integration specialists responsible for business-as-usual change, project delivery, cloud-operated SAP integration, clean-core compliant extensions, and fit-for-purpose automation. The role must guide solution choices between in-core configuration, released APIs, side-by-side BTP extensions and governed integration patterns.

You will act as a subject matter expert on modern SAP development, integration and AI-enabled engineering practices, including RAP/CDS/OData, SAP Integration Suite, API-led and event-driven integration, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Build, Business Application Studio, Joule for Developers and SAP Business AI enablement where appropriate.

You will still undertake selected development and integration requests directly, while coaching the team to follow SAP CoE governance, BTP governance, clean-core principles, secure-by-design integration and Dev Sec Ops -aligned delivery practices.

Your role and that of your team requires deep technical understanding of the SAP ecosystem with knowledge of integration and extension enabled by the following:

• BTP CPI-S (Cloud Platform Integration Suite)
• API Management and API-led integration
• OData, REST and SOAP services
• Released SAP APIs, BAPIs and IDocs where appropriate
• Event-driven integration patterns, including SAP Event Mesh where applicable
• SAP Cloud Connector and secure hybrid connectivity
• SFTP and managed file transfer patterns
• Success Factors integration patterns, including Business Integration Builder / replication and Point-to-Point integration
• RFC only where justified and governed for legacy or retained on-premise scenarios

Knowledge of some or all of the following SAP technologies is essential:

• ABAP and ABAP OO
• RESTful ABAP Programming Model (RAP), CDS Views, Fiori Elements and OData
• SAP Fiori, UI5, HTML, CSS and Java Script
• SAP Business Workflow and workflow extension patterns
• SAP BTP:
  Integration Suite, Business Application Studio, Cloud Foundry, Transport Management and related platform services
• Groovy scripting for integration flows
• SAP Build Apps / SAP Build Process Automation where appropriate
• Joule for Developers / AI-assisted development practices, including code explanation, unit test generation and code modernisation support

• Lead and manage the Development & Integration team.
• Set individual and team objectives aligned to the SAP CoE and IT strategy.
• Conduct performance management, goal setting, coaching and development discussions.
• Manage employee engagement, wellbeing and retention.
• Plan succession and talent development activities.
• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and innovation.
• Receive, assess, prioritise and allocate JIRA requests, ensuring appropriate separation between BAU, project, integration and technical debt work.
• Ensure periodic client and stakeholder cadences for alignment, prioritisation, escalation and capacity planning.
• Define and maintain development standards within the SAP CoE, adhering to best practice for the hybrid landscape.
• Maintain resource levelling across support, project delivery, BTP, integration and AI enablement demand.
• Enforce Release, Incident, SAP Change Management, audit, security and SAP CoE governance procedures.
• Ensure development and…