Manager Application Development
Listed on 2026-06-25
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IT/Tech
Primary Purpose
The Manager III, SAP Application Development is responsible for leading the design, build, and delivery of SAP custom and extended solutions across S/4
HANA and SAP BTP in support of the Retail Spine program, a business‑led, IT‑enabled transformation program designed to unlock long‑term competitiveness, improve operational efficiency, and deliver enterprise‑wide capabilities aligned to the future state operating model. The manager leads a team of SAP application developers and champions an AI‑first engineering approach, leveraging AI‑assisted development, automation, and intelligent tooling to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational reliability.
All development activities are executed in alignment with Clean Core principles, the RISE with SAP extensibility model, and responsible AI practices to protect system maintainability, security, and upgradeability. The manager partners closely with SAP Platform Engineering, functional technology leads, systems integrators, and third‑party vendors to deliver secure, reliable, and fit‑for‑purpose SAP solutions on schedule. Through strong technical leadership, modern engineering practices, and a culture of continuous improvement, this role plays a critical part in enabling the company's retail and digital transformation objectives.
and Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational leadership over SAP application development functions, overseeing the design, build, and delivery of solutions across S/4
HANA and SAP BTP in alignment with Retail Spine program objectives, SAP Activate delivery phases, and clean core adoption principles. - Own and enforce the Clean Core extensibility standard across all development activity, ensuring custom and partner solutions leverage SAP‑approved extensibility patterns – including BAdIs, released APIs, RAP‑based extensions, side‑by‑side BTP extensions, and event‑driven architectures – and that technical debt introduction is governed and minimized throughout the program lifecycle.
- Define and maintain the development taxonomy and delivery scope across ABAP (RAP, CDS Views, OData services), Fiori/UI5 applications, SAP BTP services, workflow and process automation, forms, integrations, and cloud‑native components – ensuring full WRICEF visibility, traceability, and prioritization alignment with program releases.
- Lead API‑first and service‑based design standards, governing the use of OData, REST APIs, SAP Integration Suite (CPI), and event messaging frameworks to enable scalable, decoupled integration across the retail ecosystem and enterprise application landscape.
- Govern SI‑delivered application development work products, ensuring adherence to architecture standards, clean core compliance, code quality benchmarks, security requirements, and performance expectations – including participation in design reviews, code reviews, and transport governance processes.
- Partner with SAP Solution Architects, Platform, and Basis teams to ensure development patterns are aligned to the RISE with SAP target architecture, BTP platform strategy, and long‑term technology modernization roadmap – proactively identifying and resolving architectural conflicts before they reach build.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards across the full development lifecycle, including coding standards, peer and architecture review gates, automated testing frameworks, Dev Sec Ops practices, transport management discipline, and release readiness criteria – operating consistently across Agile, hybrid, and program‑controlled delivery models.
- Establish standards, governance frameworks, and adoption roadmaps for AI‑assisted development tooling including SAP Joule and equivalent developer productivity platforms defining acceptable use policies, quality guardrails, code review requirements, and clean core compliance validation to ensure AI‑generated outputs meet program architecture and security standards.
- Own the application development contribution to key SAP Activate phase gates – including Fit‑to‑Standard workshops, design sign‑off, build quality reviews, and go‑live readiness assessments – ensuring development work streams are a…
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