SAP Integration Tech Lead

Description

SAP Integration Tech Lead

Hybrid - travel onsite to Newark, DE (2 weeks a month)

Must reside in TX, IL, NJ, OH, DE, MD, PA, VA, NC, GA, or FL

The SAP Integration Lead independently leads and handles all requirements and coordination with vendors and SIs with minimum supervision. The lead is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing integration solutions across SAP and nonSAP systems. This role ensures seamless data flow, system interoperability, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards. It requires deep expertise in SAP technologies, middleware platforms, and integrations.

• Partner with SAP functional leads (Finance, IS-U, Billing, EAM, HR), application owners, security, and platform teams to refine requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Translate business processes into integration contracts and SLAs; facilitate design reviews and UAT.
• Independently lead endtoend integration initiatives across SAP and nonSAP systems with minimal supervision.
• Serve as the primary integration point of contact for business stakeholders, vendors, and Systems Integrators (SIs).
• Enforce enterprise integration standards, patterns, and best practices (APIled, event driven, asynchronous where appropriate).
• Lead integration governance, including design reviews, interface standards, naming/versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Act as technical lead and decision authority for integration design and implementation.

• Design, develop, and deploy iFlows using SAP BTP Integration Suite (CPI) following APIled and event driven patterns.
• Implement integrations across REST, SOAP, OData, SFTP/FTP, IDoc, RFC/Proxy, JMS/AMQP.
• Build reusable assets (templates, canonical schemas, policy sets) and enforce naming/versioning standards.

• Write efficient, maintainable Groovy scripts for mappings, validations, exception handling, and custom adapters.
• Work with XML, JSON, CSV, XSLT, message mappings, and content-based routing.
• Apply integration patterns: request/reply, pub/sub, async messaging, orchestration, scatter gather, reliable delivery.

• Ensure high quality, consistent data flow between SAP and nonSAP systems; protect PII and sensitive data via encryption, masking, secure credentials.
• Align with SAP data models (IDocs, BAPIs, Business Events, CDS exposure).

• Own L2/L3 integration incident support; perform RCA and implement preventive fixes.
• Use CPI monitoring, message tracing, SAP Cloud ALM/Sol Man (or equivalent), and alerting to meet SLAs.

• Publish and secure APIs via SAP API Management (OAuth2/JWT, API keys, mTLS, caching, traffic shaping, quotas, spike arrest).
• Govern APIs across dev/test/prod with consistent versioning, documentation, and lifecycle controls.

• Produce design specs, sequence diagrams, interface catalogs, runbooks, operational guides.
• Manage transports via BTP TMS, CTS+/gCTS, and CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops/Jenkins/Git Hub Actions).
• Establish automated testing with Postman/Ready
  
  API, mocks, regression suites.

• Monitor throughput, latency, error rates; optimize mappings, batching, adapter choices.
• Manage CPEA consumption: track entitlements, select optimal service plans, rightsize tenants/subaccounts.

• Education: Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (foreign equivalent accepted).
• Work Experience: 7+ years of handson experience with SAP and nonSAP integrations, including BTP Integration Suite (CPI) designing, building, and operating iFlows.
• Driver s License: Regular Driver s License.
• Licensure/Certification: SAP BTP Integration Suite certification preferred.
• Strong Groovy scripting; ABAP knowledge (proxies/BAPIs/IDocs) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of integration patterns, protocols, middleware: REST, SOAP, OData, SFTP/FTP, JSON, XML, XSLT, JMS/AMQP.
• Working knowledge of SAP integration points with S/4
  
  HANA/ECC (IDoc/BAPI/ALE/Proxy) and common cloud/SaaS endpoints.
• Experience with SAP Cloud Connector, Destinations,…