Engineering Manager, SAP S/4HANA

Ford • Dearborn, MI

16h • $132,800 - $250,800 • Onsite

About The Position

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for building, delivering, and supporting technology products and services powered by its SAP S/4HANA platform. This people-leader role owns the product and solution lifecycle, from roadmap and requirements through functional specification, design, implementation, release, and production support.

The manager will lead a functional specification team and work closely with business stakeholders to translate business needs into requirements, functional designs, and a delivery roadmap. The role provides direction for SAP S/4HANA Sales and Distribution (SD) and end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) capabilities, guides solution and integration decisions, develops a high-performing team, and drives dependable delivery, platform reliability, and continuous improvement.

The position serves as a primary connection among engineering, functional teams, and business stakeholders, coordinating with sales, order management, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, IT, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and integration teams. The position is leadership level 6, with a stated salary range of $132,800–$250,800. Final salary grade and base salary within the range depend on candidate skills and experience, job scope, responsibility, and competitive market value. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility is verified at hire.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of experience in SAP delivery, engineering leadership, product delivery, or a related discipline.
• At least 2 years of demonstrated team leadership experience, including people management, coaching, performance development, and resource planning.
• Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA, specifically Sales and Distribution (SD) and Order-to-Cash processes.
• Experience delivering and supporting enterprise SAP solutions across their lifecycle, including production support and incident management.
• Understanding of SAP solution design, configuration, extensions, and integration patterns.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to define priorities, clarify requirements, and manage expectations.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum or similar delivery environments.

Nice To Haves

• Automotive industry experience, including familiarity with automotive sales, order management, fulfillment, or related business processes.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation, implementation, migration, or large-scale modernization programs.
• Experience integrating SAP with dealer, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, or other enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with SAP integration technologies and approaches, such as APIs, middleware, and event-based integration.
• Experience leading functional analysts or functional-specification teams and translating business needs into functional designs and delivery requirements.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-based enterprise solutions.
• Familiarity with architecture, including service design, APIs, integration patterns, and distributed systems.
• Experience managing distributed or hybrid teams and coordinating delivery across multiple business and technology groups.
• Familiarity with production support frameworks, ITIL, or SRE practices.
• Understanding of enterprise data governance, security, compliance, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and mentor engineers, analysts, SAP professionals, and the functional specification team.
• Organize team ownership areas as needed; set performance expectations, conduct regular one-on-ones, and support career growth and development.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Manage hiring, onboarding, capacity planning, and resource allocation.
• Own end-to-end delivery planning, prioritization, resourcing, dependency management, and blocker removal.
• Lead production support for SAP products and integrations, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and resolution of production issues.
• Establish and monitor measures for service reliability, process performance, and support responsiveness.
• Track delivery risks, timelines, dependencies, and technical debt, and proactively communicate and escalate issues.
• Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies and improve delivery and support practices.
• Own the roadmap and solution direction for SAP S/4HANA capabilities supporting Sales and Distribution and Order to Cash.
• Ensure functional specifications are clear, complete, traceable to business requirements, and ready to guide solution design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand processes, define requirements, prioritize enhancements, and align on outcomes.
• Facilitate business and technical working sessions to resolve process questions, assess impacts, and agree on scope and acceptance criteria.
• Translate business needs into functional specifications, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria aligned with SAP S/4HANA, SD, and end-to-end O2C processes.
• Partner with business teams to understand and improve O2C activities such as sales order management, pricing, delivery, billing, and invoicing.
• Guide solution design and technical decisions involving SAP S/4HANA, SD configuration, extensions, interfaces, and integrations with connected enterprise systems.
• Promote scalable, secure, reliable, and supportable solutions through design reviews, testing, and sound release practices.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve data quality, automate work, and strengthen platform performance.
• Align stakeholders on requirements, priorities, scope, delivery timing, and trade-offs; provide updates on roadmap progress, delivery status, production health, and risks.
• Coordinate with architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, integration, and other cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive solutions.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager