Director, SAP App Dev. & Innovation

NBCUniversal•New York, NY

8d•$260,000 - $260,000•Remote

About The Position

Responsible for integrating software and hardware frameworks, systems and product design functions and for designing underlying architecture for use in one or more product offerings. Evaluate final results of design assuring accomplishment of technical objectives and prepare/present reports outlining the outcome of projects and make recommendations for necessary actions to achieve desired results. Manage technical SAP Teams through complex system development and deployment. Solutions to include artificial intelligence, application development and integration in one unified environment. Re-engineer, transform and maintain custom SAP SOH workloads on S/4 and BTP. Analyze custom workloads on current stack and establish a framework to migrate objects and get to clean core. Provide technical guidance and architectural inputs for code remediation to S/4. Actively lead SAP technical vision to leverage best practices and drive maximum business value. Apply technology to complex processes with a drive toward relentless simplification and reduction in TCO. Evaluate business requirements and architect SAP solutions providing an integrated approach. Be up-to-date on latest SAP technology stack and act as strategic advisor to product and business teams on how to leverage SAP products and tools. Manage Technical architecture analysis, research, design and development of new functionality and integration with key applications and services under SAP ecosystems. Guide the engineering team to develop, configure and implement the solution as per the product development standards and best practices. Ensure technical integrity of projects, making sure that common technical elements are leveraged, and that work is not duplicated. Participate in product roadmap and product strategy definition. Coordinate with other technical teams to ensure compatibility with their solution components and be in alignment with their roadmap. Hold self and others accountable to the committed deadlines and ensure successful deliverables. Act as a mentor, coach, and provide training to engineers and consultants by sharing solution and technical expertise.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline (or foreign degree equivalent), plus 12 years of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation focused on SAP integration/development.
Experience consulting on more than eight (8) SAP ECC implementation or S/4 HANA implementation projects.
Experience with various SAP modules and Integration development working on large-scale SAP ECC and SAP S/4 transformations.
Experience with SAP Technical and functional experience with SAP products and various solution offerings.
Deep technical experience in SAP ECC Application engineering development using the ABAP based frameworks like Business Add in's (BADI), Application Link Enabling (ALE IDOC), Smartforms, Application List Viewer (ALV), and others.
Experience with Business Process re-engineering or process improvement experience with broad-based information systems.
Experience leveraging released BAPI’s or API's to develop customizations and creating wrappers for requirements where no released or standard BAPI’s are available.
Experience working with interfaces in addition to Web Services, such as Java connectors and Rest APIs communicating with non-SAP applications.
Experience with transformation projects e.g., from SAP ECC to S/4 HANA (ECC, SOH or S/4 Conversions, green field, brown field, blue field etc.).
Deep technical experience in SAP SOH and/or S/4 HANA Application engineering development using the S/4 HANA Extensibility model.
Experience with in-App extensions using key user and in-app frameworks using the RAP (Restful ABAP programming) model.
Experience with side-by-side extensions in BTP using the Cloud Application Programming (CAP) Model.
Experience developing SAP Fiori applications.
Experience with Clean Core principles for developing S/4 HANA.
Experience designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based applications using SAP BTP services for activities like Technical Development using Business Application Studio (BAS), SAP Build and Workzone and using the Integration Suite for developing end-to-end integrations.

Responsibilities

Integrating software and hardware frameworks, systems and product design functions and for designing underlying architecture for use in one or more product offerings.
Evaluating final results of design assuring accomplishment of technical objectives and prepare/present reports outlining the outcome of projects and make recommendations for necessary actions to achieve desired results.
Managing technical SAP Teams through complex system development and deployment.
Designing solutions to include artificial intelligence, application development and integration in one unified environment.
Re-engineering, transforming and maintaining custom SAP SOH workloads on S/4 and BTP.
Analyzing custom workloads on current stack and establishing a framework to migrate objects and get to clean core.
Providing technical guidance and architectural inputs for code remediation to S/4.
Leading SAP technical vision to leverage best practices and drive maximum business value.
Applying technology to complex processes with a drive toward relentless simplification and reduction in TCO.
Evaluating business requirements and architecting SAP solutions providing an integrated approach.
Staying up-to-date on latest SAP technology stack and acting as strategic advisor to product and business teams on how to leverage SAP products and tools.
Managing technical architecture analysis, research, design and development of new functionality and integration with key applications and services under SAP ecosystems.
Guiding the engineering team to develop, configure and implement the solution as per the product development standards and best practices.
Ensuring technical integrity of projects, making sure that common technical elements are leveraged, and that work is not duplicated.
Participating in product roadmap and product strategy definition.
Coordinating with other technical teams to ensure compatibility with their solution components and be in alignment with their roadmap.
Holding self and others accountable to the committed deadlines and ensuring successful deliverables.
Acting as a mentor, coach, and providing training to engineers and consultants by sharing solution and technical expertise.