Senior Engineer, Development - SAP

Builders FirstSource (BFS) is executing Project Elevate, a multi-year business transformation that is standardizing core operations on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition and connected enterprise applications. The Senior Engineer, SAP Application Development, is a hands-on technical resource responsible for the quality, maintainability, security, and delivery of Project Elevate custom development. This role partners with business analysts, functional leads, architects, security, Basis, testing teams, and systems-integration partners to translate business requirements into clean-core, scalable solutions across SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Serve as a BFS technical owner for Project Elevate application development, providing hands-on engineering leadership from requirements and solution design through build, test, deployment, stabilization, and transition to support.

Review functional specifications and translate approved requirements into complete technical designs, estimates, development tasks, unit-test plans, deployment dependencies, and support documentation.

Design, develop, enhance, and troubleshoot RICEFW objects, including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, workflows, Fiori applications, CDS views, OData services, APIs, and related SAP extensions.

Apply Project Elevate development standards, naming conventions, documentation templates, security requirements, and code-review checklists across BFS and vendor-delivered work.

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.

Develop and support solutions using 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 as applicable.

Perform or approve peer code reviews and quality checks using tools such as ABAP Test Cockpit, runtime analysis, SQL Monitor, SQL Performance Tuning Worklist, and HANA query-plan analysis; ensure defects, performance issues, security findings, and technical debt are resolved before release.

Own development quality for assigned objects and vendor-delivered components, including technical-specification approval, code-review outcomes, documentation completeness, test evidence, transport readiness, and adherence to BFS architecture and engineering policies.

Partner with functional leads and business analysts early in solution discussions to evaluate standard capabilities, identify gaps, compare extensibility options, and recommend solutions that balance business value, maintainability, risk, cost, and upgrade compatibility.

Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Integration, Security, Basis, Data, Testing, Release Management, and application owners to resolve cross-system dependencies and deliver integrated end-to-end business capabilities.

Work with Security teams to incorporate authorization checks, secure coding, sensitive-data handling, workflow controls, segregation-of-duties considerations, and required role or authorization-object changes.

Coordinate with Basis and platform teams on environments, connectivity, system performance, background jobs, transports, runtime capacity, monitoring, and technical issue resolution across development, quality, training, pre-production, and production landscapes.

Create and execute technical unit tests and support functional unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, performance testing, regression testing, defect triage, retesting, and release-readiness activities.

Prepare solutions for controlled deployment through approved transport and change processes; support cutover, production validation, hypercare, root-cause analysis, and timely remediation of production defects.

Maintain traceability and status in approved delivery tools, including requirements, technical designs, build tasks, defects, risks, dependencies, test evidence, approvals, and deployment milestones.

Review vendor estimates, designs, code, test results, and delivery plans; hold systems-integration partners and contractors accountable for quality, schedule, knowledge transfer, and compliance with BFS standards.

Contribute to reusable engineering patterns, templates, accelerators, automation, technical roadmaps, and continuous improvements to the software-development lifecycle, DevSecOps practices, and release processes.

Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge-transfer materials; share best practices with BFS developers, analysts, support teams, and partners.

Provide technical mentoring and guidance to other engineers and development partners while remaining accountable for individual delivery; perform hands-on coding for complex, high-risk, or business-critical work.

Communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to project leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Four or more years of SAP application-development experience, including hands-on ABAP development in SAP S/4HANA or SAP ERP environments.

Experience delivering custom SAP objects through requirements, technical design, development, code review, testing, transport, deployment, and production support.

Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA extensibility, ABAP, CDS, enhancements, workflows, interfaces, forms, OData services, and Fiori/UI5 development.

Experience applying secure coding, performance optimization, source/version control, peer review, testing, and software-development lifecycle practices.

Experience working with systems integrators, offshore development teams, vendors, and cross-functional enterprise delivery teams.

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

COMPETENCIES

Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.

Technical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.

Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives.

Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations. 

Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.

Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments of internal and external customers and needs of the market.

Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggests improvements to current ways of working.

BFS COMPETENCIES

Business and Financial Acumen

Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis

Teaches business and financial acumen to others.

Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money.

Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.

Understands customer sales and engagement.

Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise.

Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.

Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.

Results Driven

Holds self and others accountable.

Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver.

Manages competing priorities effectively.

Demonstrates appropriate urgency.

Drives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values.

Embraces and follows best practices.

Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.

Strategic Thinking and Decision Making

Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes.

Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner.

Balances short-and-long term priorities

Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking.

Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.

Servant Leadership

Demonstrates humility by putting others first.

Builds trust-based relationships.

Leads by example with kindness and respect.

Collaborates well across all areas of the business.

Advocates for others

Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.

Demonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same.

Emotional Intelligence

Demonstrates situational awareness – knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations.

Demonstrates self-awareness – understands strengths and weaknesses.

Demonstrates empathy – puts themselves in other’s shoes.

Assumes positive intent.

Develops and Leads Others

Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations.

Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations.

Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment.

Empowers, motivates, and inspires others.

Coaches and mentor others for their development.

Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes.

Growth Mindset

Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes.

Perseveres and champions growth, even in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or possible failure.

Thinks like an owner with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity.

Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth.

Sees possibilities over problems – actively seeks solutions.

Innovation

Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things.

Continuously seeks to improve and simplify pain points in the business.

Anticipates, embraces, and leads change.

Develops and executes breakthrough strategies.

Integrity

Does the right thing even under challenging circumstances?

Communicates with honesty.

Consistently treats others fairly and equitably.

Demonstrates reliability and does what they say they will do.

Conducts tough conversations and delivers difficult messages with kindness and respect.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.

Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.

Occasional travel may be required to attend program specific working session.