Engineering Manager, SAP S/4HANA

Ford Motor•Dearborn, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Ford Motor Company is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team that builds, delivers, and supports technology products and services powered by the 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 leads the functional specification team and partners with business stakeholders to turn business needs into requirements, functional designs, and a delivery roadmap. The role guides solution and integration decisions, develops a high-performing team, and drives dependable delivery, platform reliability, and continuous improvement. The position owns SAP S/4HANA capabilities supporting Sales and Distribution (SD) and end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C). It includes leading delivery and production support, setting operational measures, guiding functional and technical solution work, and aligning business and technology stakeholders on requirements, priorities, scope, timing, and trade-offs. The role also coordinates with architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, integration, and other cross-functional groups. The position is leadership level 6, with a stated salary range of $132,800–$250,800. Final salary grade and base pay 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 will be 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 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 ownership areas as needed.
Set performance expectations, conduct regular one-on-ones, support career development, and 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 SAP product and integration production support, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and issue resolution.
Establish and monitor operational measures for service reliability, process performance, and support responsiveness.
Track delivery risks, timelines, dependencies, and technical debt; communicate and escalate issues proactively.
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 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 enterprise systems.
Promote scalable, secure, reliable, supportable solutions through design reviews, testing, and sound release practices.
Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve data quality, automate work, and strengthen platform performance.
Serve as a primary connection between engineering and functional teams and business stakeholders, including sales, order management, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and IT.
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.