Role SummaryWe 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.
Key Responsibilities Include:- 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
The ideal candidate will possess:- 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.
Technical Qualifications- 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
Preferred Qualifications- 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
