Project Role : Custom Software Engineering Lead
Project Role Description : Own the technical direction and architecture of custom software solutions, leading teams through design and delivery. Set development standards and ensure code quality, scalability, and performance aligned to business objectives.
Must have skills : SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Supply Chain
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 15 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
As an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Supply Chain Integration Lead,you will hold design authority and delivery accountability for the process area, leading multiple workstreams through their Managers while remaining personally hands-on on the hardest design and configuration for Supply Chain Integration within the Supply chain & logistics tower of the DRS SAP programme. The role exists to own supply chain integration on S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, where extensibility is constrained by design and delivery must remain within released APIs and standard scope.
You carry delivery risk for the process area and are expected to enter a drifting workstream, establish an evidenced position and reset the plan. You remain hands-on: the most difficult design and configuration work is yours, as is the review gate before work leaves the process area. Quality, defect trend and release readiness sit with you, together with the AI standard and the technical development of the Managers you lead.

Roles & Responsibilities:
Scope & Decision Rights: Hold design authority for the process area and remain hands-on. The hardest design calls are taken by you personally, and you prove the pattern before the team builds to it. You approve decisions that carry downstream cost, hold the review gate on work leaving the process area, set the quality gates Managers deliver to, and own the delivery risk position reported to programme governance.
Fit-to-Standard & Scope Items: Lead fit-to-standard workshops against supply chain scope items, document gaps honestly, and steer requirements toward standard rather than toward extensions that will not survive an upgrade.
API & Integration Design: Design integration using released APIs, communication scenarios and arrangements, and own the end-to-end interface specification and error handling model.
Integration Suite Delivery: Build and govern integration flows on SAP Integration Suite, including mapping, exception handling, retry behaviour and monitoring.
Extensibility within Clean Core: Determine where key user extensibility, developer extensibility or side-by-side extension on BTP is appropriate, and enforce that boundary across the workstream.
Integration & Dependencies: Work across every supply chain module in scope and with the ABAP/BTP tower for extension and integration standards, and with Basis for communication setup and landscape governance.




Solution & Delivery Governance: Own solution design and delivery quality across the process area: set the design standards, approve decisions carrying downstream cost, and hold accountability for delivery risk, defect trend and release readiness across workstreams.
Delivery Recovery Leadership: Lead recovery of stressed workstreams, including interfaces failing in a constrained cloud landscape where the usual workarounds are not available: establish an evidenced position, re-plan, reallocate, remove the structural cause and report a defensible trajectory to programme leadership.
AI-Native Delivery Standards & Joule Governance: Define how AI is applied across the process area, including AI-assisted integration architecture review, interface risk analysis and Clean Core compliance checking govern the accelerator library, set validation and IP controls, and report productivity and quality outcomes. Set the standard for SAP Joule for Consultants use and the governance of its grounding content, and decide where a Joule agent is warranted against standard configuration, holding the specification and acceptance standard with the AI and AIDLC tower.
Mentoring & Capability Building: Develop the Managers who lead the workstreams: run design reviews as teaching, pair on configuration they have not done before, and codify the resulting patterns so the capability outlives the individual. Set the technical standard across the process area and own succession for its scarce skills.
Executive & Client Engagement: Represent the process area in client leadership and programme governance forums, defend design decisions, and negotiate scope and timeline against capacity.

Professional & Technical Skills:
Must-Have Skills
S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: Design authority and deep expertise on S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, including scope items, fit-to-standard and the constraints of the public cloud model.
Released APIs & Communication Setup: Recognised design authority in released OData and SOAP APIs, communication scenarios, arrangements, users and systems.
SAP Integration Suite: Design authority and deep expertise with Cloud Integration (CPI), including mapping, error handling and monitoring Event Mesh where applicable.
Extensibility Model: Expert-level expertise in key user and developer extensibility and side-by-side extension on BTP, with judgement on which to use.
Supply Chain Process Knowledge: Comprehensive command of the supply chain processes being integrated,



not integration mechanics alone.
Clean Core Discipline: Proven capability to decline an extension that compromises upgrade safety and to propose a viable alternative.
Hands-On Technical Depth: Current, hands-on command of the primary skill. This is a working design authority role, not an oversight role: the hardest configuration in the process area is expected to be done by the post-holder.
Technical Mentoring & Capability Building: Demonstrated development of Managers and senior engineers through design review, pairing and codified patterns, evidenced by capability the team retained rather than output the individual delivered.
AI-Enabled Delivery Leadership: Demonstrated definition of AI standards across an SAP delivery team or tower, including validation controls, accelerator ownership and measured productivity outcomes.
SAP Joule for Consultants & Agent Governance: Working use of SAP Joule for Consultants and the capability to set how a team uses it, covering grounding content curation and client-confidentiality controls, together with the judgement to determine where a Joule agent is warranted against standard configuration. Equivalent experience setting AI tooling standards for a delivery team is accepted in place of prior Joule exposure, with working proficiency expected within 90 days of joining.
Evidence of AI Adoption: Demonstrable record of raising delivery productivity through AI or equivalent means: AI assistant adoption, delivery accelerators, reference architectures or codified playbooks built for reuse across teams, with measurable effect on throughput or quality.
Multi-Workstream Delivery & Recovery: Demonstrated leadership across multiple SAP workstreams, including at least one engagement behind plan or under quality pressure, with personal accountability for the recovery.
Executive Stakeholder Management: Credible in client leadership forums, with demonstrated capability to make and defend design and delivery decisions under incomplete information and commercial pressure.
Good to Have Skills
SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and operations
Event-driven integration patterns with Event Mesh
SAP IBP integration
SAP BTP services beyond Integration Suite

Additional Information:
A 15-year full time education is required, as stated in the approved demand record.
Minimum 15 years of experience on the primary skill, as specified in the approved demand record.
Hands-on configuration or design-level build work on the primary skill within the last 24 months.
Solution and delivery leadership across multiple full lifecycle SAP programmes, including at least one recovery or high-pressure delivery situation.
Evidenced record of setting AI-enabled or equivalent delivery productivity standards for a team or tower.

15 years full time education

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