[Hiring] Senior Manager - Development, SAP @Builders FirstSource

Role Description

The Senior Manager, IT – Software Engineering and Development, leads the team responsible for the quality, maintainability, security, and delivery of Project Elevate custom development. This role manages Senior Engineers and other development resources, sets engineering direction and standards, and is accountable for translating business and architecture priorities into clean-core, scalable solutions across SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

• Lead the Project Elevate application-development function and provide accountable management from demand intake and solution design through build, test, deployment, stabilization, and transition to support.
• Manage Senior Engineers, engineers, contractors, and delivery partners; establish clear goals, assign work, balance capacity, remove impediments, and hold the team accountable for quality, schedule, documentation, and business outcomes.
• Set the technical direction, operating model, development standards, naming conventions, documentation expectations, security requirements, code-review practices, and quality gates for BFS and vendor-delivered application development.
• Ensure Senior Engineers translate approved functional requirements into complete technical designs, estimates, development plans, unit-test plans, deployment dependencies, operational documentation, and support readiness.
• Govern the design and delivery of RICEFW objects, Fiori applications, CDS views, OData services, APIs, workflows, integrations, extensions, and related SAP and BTP solutions; personally engage in complex, high-risk, or business-critical decisions and escalations.
• Champion SAP clean-core principles by prioritizing fit-to-standard, released APIs, zero modification, in-app extensibility, ABAP Cloud/on-stack extensibility, and side-by-side BTP solutions before classical extensions.
• Provide governance across SAP S/4HANA, ABAP, RAP, CDS, SAP Fiori/UI5, SAP Gateway/OData, SAP BTP, CAP, SAP Build, HANA Cloud, workflows, events, and API-based integration patterns, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture and product roadmaps.
• Establish and monitor engineering quality measures, including technical-specification approval, peer review, automated and manual code checks, performance analysis, secure coding, test evidence, defect trends, technical debt, transport readiness, and production stability.
• Partner with functional and business leaders early in solution discussions to assess standard capabilities, clarify gaps, compare extensibility options, and make transparent decisions that balance business value, maintainability, risk, cost, delivery speed, and upgrade compatibility.
• Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture, Integration, Security, Basis, Data, Testing, Release Management, and application owners to resolve cross-system dependencies and deliver integrated end-to-end capabilities.
• Own development portfolio planning, estimates, resource forecasts, delivery commitments, risks, dependencies, status reporting, and release readiness; communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly to program and technology leadership.
• Oversee controlled deployment through approved change and transport processes and ensure appropriate cutover support, production validation, hypercare, root-cause analysis, remediation, operational monitoring, and knowledge transfer.
• Manage systems integrators, offshore teams, contractors, and software-development partners; review estimates, staffing, designs, code-quality outcomes, test results, delivery plans, and knowledge-transfer progress, and take corrective action when expectations are not met.
• Develop reusable engineering patterns, templates, accelerators, automation, technical roadmaps, and continuous improvements to the software-development lifecycle, DevSecOps practices, release processes, and support model.
• Recruit, onboard, coach, mentor, and retain technical talent; conduct regular performance and development conversations, create succession and capability-development plans, and build a culture of ownership, collaboration, inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Maintain sufficient technical depth to challenge designs, guide engineers, resolve escalations, evaluate emerging SAP capabilities, and represent the development function in architecture and governance forums.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ten or more years of relevant software-engineering or enterprise-application experience, including substantial SAP application-development experience in SAP S/4HANA or SAP ERP environments.
• Five or more years of people leadership, delivery leadership, or technical-team management experience, including responsibility for senior engineers, employees, contractors, and systems-integration partners.
• Demonstrated experience leading custom SAP solutions through requirements, architecture and technical design, estimation, development, code review, testing, transport, deployment, stabilization, and production support.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA extensibility, clean-core principles, ABAP, RAP, CDS, enhancements, workflows, interfaces, forms, OData services, Fiori/UI5, SAP BTP, APIs, integration patterns, and cloud-based extension approaches.
• Experience establishing and enforcing secure coding, performance optimization, source/version control, peer review, automated quality checks, testing, DevSecOps, release governance, and software-development lifecycle practices.
• Experience managing delivery portfolios, budgets or resource plans, vendor commitments, cross-functional dependencies, risks, executive communications, and production-service outcomes in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong leadership, coaching, decision-making, analytical, troubleshooting, negotiation, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Requirements

• Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions.
• Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
• Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism.
• Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.
• Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working; adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle.
• Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked.
• Makes decisions and takes responsibility; directs and leads others even in ambiguous circumstances.
• Builds high performing teams by integrating a diversity of skills and personalities and creating a deep sense of accountability and shared purpose.
• Focuses on developing, coaching, and mentoring talent to improve individual and organizational performance.
• Builds relationships and takes account of the needs of multiple stakeholders to influence and drive decisions for beneficial business outcomes.
• Takes action, initiates activity and seizes opportunities for new business; pursues goals with persistence and achieves outstanding results.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance plans.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• PTO (including paid sick time).
• 8 paid holidays per year (for salaried and hourly team members).

Company Description

Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.