Manager, SAP Development & Integration

Manager, SAP Development & Integration

An experienced technical manager to lead our Development and Integration engineering team through an ambitious multi-year SAP transformation. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with platform governance—partnering with IT and business stakeholders to prioritize work, manage technical debt, and introduce modern SAP and integration capabilities that improve productivity and reliability. The position is responsible for driving S/4

HANA development, BTP Integration Suite buildout, while also providing people leadership and capability governance for Data Engineering (SAP Datasphere) and Testing through domain leads.

Key Responsibilities

• Own ABAP development standards, code review governance, and technical design approval to ensure secure, maintainable solutions.
• Lead S/4
  
  HANA and BTP ABAP delivery (RAP/CAP) and Fiori extension work aligned to roadmap priorities.
• Build application development practices that improve delivery quality, reuse, and Team Member productivity.
• Own PI/PO to SAP BTP Integration Suite migration planning, delivery governance, and decommission sequencing.
• Provide architectural direction for integration patterns and API-based connectivity across a hybrid ECC/S/4 landscape.
• Support change and release processes for integrations (deployment standards, runbooks, and operational handoffs).
• Partner with IT leadership and business stakeholders on prioritization, ensuring capacity is aligned to transformation milestones and operational needs.
• Work with stakeholders to measure and prioritize technical debt remediation (custom ABAP reduction, integration simplification, Data modernization).
• Explore emerging SAP/BTP capabilities and industry trends; recommend solutions that improve stability, performance, and business value.
• Provide people leadership and delivery oversight to Data Engineering Lead, including intake, prioritization, capacity planning, and execution governance.
• Establish and govern SAP Datasphere platform practices and standards (modeling patterns, naming conventions, performance guidance, transport/release approach, and documentation).
• Ensure the team delivers reliable, secure, and auditable data products and pipelines from SAP and non-SAP sources, partner with security and data governance stakeholders on access, retention, and compliance expectations.
• Define and monitor operational and quality metrics for data products (freshness, data quality, lineage completeness, incident trends) and drive continuous improvement through the team.
• Lead the Testing capability across SAP delivery through the Testing Lead, including test strategy, planning standards, defect triage governance, and release readiness reporting.
• Define and govern test standards and tooling (regression approach, test data management, automation strategy) to improve coverage, consistency, and cycle time.
• Ensure stakeholder alignment and readiness for UAT and cutover validation (environment readiness, entry/exit criteria, and sign-off coordination).
• Own quality metrics and continuous improvement (defect leakage, escaped defects, automation rate, post-release stability) and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into delivery practices.
• Lead and develop domain leads across ABAP Development, Integration Platform, Data Engineering, and Testing; manage performance, coaching, and succession planning.
• Manage third-party provider performance for development and integration services; hold partners accountable for quality and delivery outcomes.
• Participate in vendor/contract decision support by providing input on scope, standards, and delivery expectations.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Team Member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is an office setting with varying degrees of temperature and noise levels. The vast amount of work is conducted in a climate-controlled office. Travel may be required.

Physical Demands

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