SAP EWM ASRS Development Lead

• Additional Information 25% travel to Buffalo, New York
• Remote Job

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We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on SAP EWM ASRS Development Lead to join a large-scale SAP transformation program for a leading manufacturing organisation. This is a senior, technical leadership role for someone with very strong SAP EWM and warehouse automation experience who can ramp up quickly and make an immediate impact.

You will work closely with the client’s internal SAP team, implementation partners and external automation vendors. You will provide technical leadership and drive key design and integration decisions. As the link between the PMO, SAP functional teams, architects and developers, you will keep development moving smoothly from requirements through build, testing, defect resolution and deployment. You will also make sure SAP EWM integrates seamlessly with warehouse automation (ASRS) systems.

• Lead end-to-end technical design and development of SAP EWM warehouse automation solutions
• Drive key design and integration decisions across SAP EWM and automation systems
• Define development standards, architecture patterns and integration frameworks for EWM and ASRS
• Review and approve technical specifications, development objects and solution designs
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for EWM custom developments, enhancements, reports, interfaces, forms and workflows

• Serve as the primary technical contact for ASRS and automation vendors
• Coordinate interface design, message mapping, error handling, acknowledgements and exception processing between SAP EWM and vendor systems
• Deliver inbound, outbound, inventory, replenishment and pallet movement integration processes

• Work closely with the client’s internal SAP team, implementation partners and external vendors
• Align multiple teams and vendors around shared priorities, decisions and timelines
• Communicate status, risks and technical decisions clearly to the PMO and program leadership
• Maintain a prioritised, development-ready backlog aligned with project milestones
• Make sure requirements, specifications, dependencies and approvals are complete before development begins
• Control work-in-progress, and resolve stalled work, bottlenecks and resource constraints
• Translate project plans into a development demand plan and balance it against available capacity
• Give the PMO clear visibility into status, capacity, blockers, risks and upcoming demand

• Enforce development standards, documentation, technical and code reviews, and unit testing
• Coordinate delivery of RICEFW objects, ABAP, BAdIs, APIs, IDocs, SAP AIF, Fiori and related integrations
• Make sure…