Senior Engineering Manager - ERP

Xplore Inc • Markham, ON

22d

About The Position

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a technical team as we embark on a company-wide ERP transformation. This is your opportunity to use cutting edge tools to modernize the systems that run our business - driving a technical vision while leading teams to transform our ERP platform and deliver modern ERP capabilities, including Financial Management, Procurement & Source-to-Pay, Inventory & Asset Management and Supply Chain Management, alongside our broader Telecom digital and operational domains.

Requirements

• 8+ years in software engineering roles with 3+ years leading teams (people leadership and delivery accountability) in a product-centric or Agile delivery environment.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise systems and integrations in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Broad understanding of modern ERP platforms, with direct involvement in a legacy-to-modern ERP transformation.
• Experience supporting or delivering core ERP functional domains such as project finance tracking, general ledger, supply chain, and budgeting/planning.
• Strong technical background with modern application development, APIs/integration patterns, and cloud fundamentals (preferably Azure).
• Demonstrated experience building software that accounts for performance, observability and security
• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery outcomes (quality, cycle time, reliability) using metrics, continuous improvement, and pragmatic engineering practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate between business outcomes and technical execution.
• 8+ years working with ABAP/RAP, or other comparable programming languages used in enterprise and ERP application development
• Working experience with APIs using technologies like REST, GraphQL, gRPC, OData, and/or SOAP XML/iDocs for ERP integration
• Hands-on or delivery experience with SAP S/4HANA or a comparable modern ERP platform (e.g., Oracle Cloud ERP, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics 365), including extensibility via SAP BTP, Fiori/UI5, and ABAP/RAP)
• Demonstrated experience with ERP migration and modernization tooling (e.g., SAP Activate methodology, Migration Cockpit, data reconciliation, and cutover planning) for transformations from legacy platforms
• Working knowledge of core ERP functional domains: project systems/project finance tracking, general ledger and financial accounting (FI/CO), supply chain and materials management, and budgeting/planning
• Test automation: Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber
• AI Tooling: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and/or other equivalent technologies
• Strong understanding of Cloud Native principles and frameworks

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Telecom OSS/BSS domains and operational lifecycle processes.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives (legacy decomposition, platform migration, integration modernization, domain/platform realignment).
• SAP certification(s) (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP Activate) or equivalent modern ERP platform credential, and/or experience with ERP reporting and analytics tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud or SAP BW/4HANA.
• Exposure to SRE/production operations practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident management, runbooks, post-incident reviews, operational automation).
• Experience working with distributed teams and vendors/partners

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple software developers across cross-functional Agile teams, ensuring consistent delivery of business value, predictable execution, and strong engineering discipline.
• Drive AI adoption, modernization of applications, and integrations across our ERP landscape, aligning delivery with engineering and enterprise architecture direction.
• Own the technical roadmap for our ERP transformation, including migrating core financial and operational capabilities to a modern ERP platform, and coordinating data migration, integration, and cutover across teams.
• Establish and evolve engineering practices for including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure-by-design, and operational readiness.
• Practice servant leadership by supporting developers and technical leads through hiring, performance development, career paths, mentoring, and ensuring a culture of accountability, learning, and inclusion.
• Collaborate with product owners, business leaders and partners on roadmap execution, capacity planning, dependency management, and risk/issue escalation across teams and vendors/partners.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, security, resiliency, scalability, data integrity, and compliance while adopting modern software development principles, frameworks and platforms

Benefits

• As a condition of employment and in order to comply with industry related data security standards, this position is subject to the successful completion of a Criminal Background Check. Details will be supplied to applicants as they move through the selection process.
• Xplore is committed to creating an accessible environment and will accommodate disabilities during the selection process. Please let your recruiter know during the selection process of any accommodation needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed