{"id":2941140,"url":"https://alion.io/job/builders-firstsource-senior-manager-development-sap","title":"Senior Manager- Development, SAP","company":{"id":15085,"name":"Builders FirstSource","domain":"bldr.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/bldr","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Dayforce","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":100,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":36,"computed_at":"2026-10-20T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Enterprise Apps","role_family":"Enterprise Apps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":92000,"max_usd":175000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":279},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ABAP","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"CDS Views","optional":false},{"name":"SAP BTP","optional":false},{"name":"SAP Fiori","optional":false},{"name":"SAP Gateway","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-20T05:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-20","last_verified_at":"2026-10-21T04:49:48Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"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 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). The Senior Manager partners with business, functional, architecture, security, Basis, data, testing, release-management, support, and systems-integration leaders to ensure predictable delivery, strong technical governance, effective talent development, and successful transition of solutions into operations.\n\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nLead 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.\nManage 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.\nSet 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.\nEnsure Senior Engineers translate approved functional requirements into complete technical designs, estimates, development plans, unit-test plans, deployment dependencies, operational documentation, and support readiness.\nGovern 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.\nChampion 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.\nProvide 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.\nEstablish 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.\nPartner 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.\nCoordinate 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.\nOwn 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.\nOversee 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.\nManage 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.\nDevelop reusable engineering patterns, templates, accelerators, automation, technical roadmaps, and continuous improvements to the software-development lifecycle, DevSecOps practices, release processes, and support model.\nRecruit, 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.\nMaintain sufficient technical depth to challenge designs, guide engineers, resolve escalations, evaluate emerging SAP capabilities, and represent the development function in architecture and governance forums.\n\nSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES\nThis job has supervisory responsibilities, including direct accountability for Senior Engineers and other assigned employees or contractors. Responsibilities include workforce and succession planning; talent selection, onboarding, coaching, training, and development; establishing goals and performance expectations; planning, assigning, prioritizing, and directing work; conducting regular feedback and performance reviews; recognizing contributions; managing capacity and delivery accountability; and addressing performance, conduct, or team concerns promptly, with escalation when necessary.\n\nMINIMUM REQUIREMENTS\nTo 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. \nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.\nTen 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.\nFive or more years of people leadership, delivery leadership, or technical-team management experience, including responsibility for senior engineers, employees, contractors, and systems-integration partners.\nDemonstrated experience leading custom SAP solutions through requirements, architecture and technical design, estimation, development, code review, testing, transport, deployment, stabilization, and production support.\nStrong 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.\nExperience establishing and enforcing secure coding, performance optimization, source/version control, peer review, automated quality checks, testing, DevSecOps, release governance, and software-development lifecycle practices.\nExperience managing delivery portfolios, budgets or resource plans, vendor commitments, cross-functional dependencies, risks, executive communications, and production-service outcomes in a complex enterprise environment.\nStrong leadership, coaching, decision-making, analytical, troubleshooting, negotiation, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.\n\nCOMPETENCIES\nEvaluates 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.\nTechnical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.\nAdjusting 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.\nFocuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations. \nDemonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.\nAgile 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.\nBias 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.\nProvides Leadership: Makes decisions and takes responsibility; directs and leads others even in ambiguous circumstances, coordinating activities; provides encouragement and inspiration to help others succeed.\nBuilds Effective Teams: Builds high performing teams by integrating a diversity of skills and personalities and creating a deep sense of accountability and shared purpose.\nDevelops Talent: Focuses on developing, coaching, and mentoring talent to improve individual and organizational performance. Contributes to building talent that the industry, market, and BFS needs.\nManages Stakeholders: Builds relationships and takes account of the needs of multiple stakeholders to influence and drive decisions for beneficial business outcomes.\nDrives Success: Takes action, initiates activity and seizes opportunities for new business; pursues goals with persistence and achieves outstanding results.\n\nBFS COMPETENCIES\nBusiness and Financial Acumen\nDemonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis\nTeaches business and financial acumen to others.\nUnderstands KPIs and how BFS makes money. \nKnows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.\nUnderstands customer sales and engagement. \nDemonstrates functional and/or technical expertise. \nUnderstands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.\nUnderstands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.\nResults Driven\nHolds self and others accountable. \nCommunicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver. \nManages competing priorities effectively.\nDemonstrates appropriate urgency. \nDrives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values.\nEmbraces and follows best practices.\nDemonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.\nStrategic Thinking and Decision Making\nLeverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes. \nDemonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner. \nBalances short-and-long term priorities \nDemonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking. \nAsks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.\nServant Leadership\nDemonstrates humility by putting others first. \nBuilds trust-based relationships. \nLeads by example with kindness and respect. \nCollaborates well across all areas of the business. \nAdvocates for others\nActively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.\nDemonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same.\nEmotional Intelligence\nDemonstrates situational awareness – knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations. \nDemonstrates self-awareness – understands strengths and weaknesses. \nDemonstrates empathy – puts themselves in other’s shoes. \nAssumes positive intent.\nDevelops and Leads Others\nDrives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations. \nInvests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations. \nFosters a respectful and inclusive environment.\nEmpowers, motivates, and inspires others.\nCoaches and mentor others for their development.\nGuides and persuades others to deliver positive outcome...","description_format":"text","description_chars":13521,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":5,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Wholesale","Building Materials"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-20T17:19:54Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":77500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":36,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T04:58:39Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/builders-firstsource-senior-manager-development-sap","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/builders-firstsource-senior-manager-development-sap.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T04:58:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7338,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":15085},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=15085"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbuilders-firstsource-senior-manager-development-sap"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbuilders-firstsource-senior-manager-development-sap"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbuilders-firstsource-senior-manager-development-sap"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/builders-firstsource-senior-manager-development-sap\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbuilders-firstsource-senior-manager-development-sap"}]}