Engineering Manager, SAP S/4HANA

We are seeking an Engineering Manager, SAP S/4HANA to lead the functional specification team and work closely with business stakeholders to translate business needs into clear requirements, functional designs, and a delivery roadmap.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience with SAP S/4HANA Sales and Distribution (SD) and end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) processes, along with automotive industry knowledge.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of engineers, analysts, and SAP professionals, including the functional specification team.
• Organize the team around effective areas of ownership, as needed.
• Set clear performance expectations, hold regular one-on-ones, and support career growth and development.
• Build a team culture centered on accountability, collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Manage hiring, onboarding, capacity planning, and resource allocation.

Delivery and Production Ownership

• Own end-to-end delivery, including planning, prioritization, resourcing, dependency management, and removal of blockers.
• Lead production support for SAP products and integrations, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and resolution of production issues.
• 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.

Product, Functional, and SAP Solution Ownership

• Own the roadmap and solution direction for SAP S/4HANA capabilities supporting Sales and Distribution and Order to Cash.
• Lead the functional specification team, ensuring specifications are clear, complete, traceable to business requirements, and ready to guide solution design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand processes, define requirements, prioritize enhancements, and align on outcomes.
• Facilitate working sessions with business and technical teams 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 that align with SAP S/4HANA capabilities, SD, and end-to-end O2C processes.
• Partner with business teams to understand and improve processes spanning relevant 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.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a primary connection between the 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 regular updates to leaders and partners on roadmap progress, delivery status, production health, and risks.
• Coordinate with architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, integration, and other cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive solutions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in SAP delivery, engineering leadership, product delivery, or a related discipline.
• 2+ years demonstrated experience leading teams, 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 the 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.

Benefits

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