SAP Development and Integration Manager

SAP Development and Integration Manager

Purpose of the Role

As a team player within the SAP Centre of Excellence (CoE), you and your team will deliver development, integration, extension, and automation services across a hybrid SAP landscape, including S/4HANA Finance, GRC on RISE with SAP, SAP ECC HCM, SuccessFactors, SAP Data Services, Insurance Analyzer/PaPM transition activities, SAP Fiori, and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

You will lead SAP development and integration specialists responsible for business-as-usual enhancements, project delivery, cloud-operated SAP integration, clean-core compliant extensions, and fit-for-purpose automation. The role requires guiding solution decisions between in-core configuration, released APIs, side-by-side BTP extensions, and governed integration patterns.

You will act as a subject matter expert in modern SAP development, integration, and AI-enabled engineering practices, including RAP/CDS/OData, SAP Integration Suite, API-led and event-driven integration, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Build, Business Application Studio, Joule for Developers, and SAP Business AI enablement where appropriate.

You will undertake selected development and integration activities directly while coaching the team to follow SAP CoE governance, BTP governance, clean-core principles, secure-by-design integration, and DevSecOps-aligned delivery practices.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & People Management

• Lead and manage the Development & Integration team.

• Set individual and team objectives aligned with SAP CoE and IT strategy.

• Conduct performance management, goal setting, coaching, and development discussions.

• Manage employee engagement, wellbeing, and retention.

• Plan succession and talent development activities.

• Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation.

Technical Leadership & Delivery

• Receive, assess, prioritise, and allocate JIRA requests, ensuring appropriate separation between BAU, project, integration, and technical debt work.

• Ensure regular stakeholder engagement and governance forums for alignment, prioritisation, escalation, and capacity planning.

• Define and maintain SAP development standards aligned with best practices for a hybrid SAP landscape.

• Manage resource allocation across support, project delivery, BTP, integration, and AI enablement initiatives.

• Enforce release, incident, change management, audit, security, and SAP CoE governance procedures.

• Ensure development and integration decisions comply with BTP governance, clean-core principles, approved architecture patterns, and formal design review requirements.

• Lead the modernisation of custom code, integrations, and extensions to support RISE with SAP, SAP BTP Cloud Foundry, hybrid landscape operations, and SuccessFactors.

• Guide the transition from point-to-point integrations to centrally governed Integration Suite, API-led, and event-driven architectures.

• Troubleshoot technical defects across ABAP, BTP, integrations, Fiori, workflow, and hybrid connectivity layers.

• Advise functional teams and business stakeholders on enhancement options, including standard SAP functionality, released APIs, side-by-side extensions, automation, and embedded AI capabilities.

• Provide technical mentoring, capability uplift, and development standards for team members.

• Undertake selected development and integration activities while ensuring knowledge transfer, documentation, and operational handover.

Qualifications

• Matric.

• Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Relevant SAP certifications in SAP BTP, Integration Suite, ABAP Development, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Build, and/or SAP Business AI will be advantageous.

Knowledge Requirements

• Working technical knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance, GRC, ECC HCM, SuccessFactors, SAP Data Services, Master Data Governance, Insurance Analyzer, and/or PaPM transition concepts.

• Strong knowledge of SAP BTP as an enterprise extension and integration platform.

• Knowledge of clean-core principles, side-by-side extensibility, released APIs, ABAP Cloud, and upgrade-stable development practices.

• Knowledge of SAP Integration Suite, API Management, Cloud Connector, event-driven integration, and secure hybrid integration patterns.

• Awareness of Joule for Developers, SAP Business AI, generative AI governance, and responsible AI practices.

• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices using SAP and enterprise tooling.

• Ability to interpret, analyse, and challenge written requirements with a strong focus on fit-for-purpose architecture and operational sustainability.

• Ability to prioritise work based on operational risk, regulatory and audit requirements, roadmap commitments, and capacity constraints.

• Ability to deliver within strict deadlines while maintaining documentation, handover, and support quality.

General Experience

• 7+ years' experience in SAP development and integration, including ABAP and modern SAP integration tooling.

• 3+ years' experience working with SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP, preferably within a hybrid or RISE with SAP / Cloud ERP operating model.

• Practical experience with SAP Integration Suite/CPI, APIs, OData, IDoc/RFC integrations, and secure connectivity patterns.

• Experience leading or coordinating technical teams, backlog prioritisation, release/change governance, and stakeholder engagement.

• Experience in SAP Cloud ALM, BTP Cloud Foundry migration, clean-core remediation, custom-code modernisation, or AI-assisted development will be advantageous.

• Experience in regulated industries or large-scale enterprise environments will be advantageous.

• Experience with DevSecOps practices, source control, CI/CD, and controlled transport and release governance will be advantageous.

Required Behavioural Competencies

• Highly responsible with the ability to work independently and make pragmatic technical decisions.

• Strong commitment to continuous learning across SAP cloud, AI, integration, and security domains.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong stakeholder and service-orientation mindset.

• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills.

• Self-motivated with a strong focus on delivery, quality, documentation, and operational excellence.

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work effectively under pressure, both independently and as part of a team.

• Team player with a coaching mindset and commitment to capability development.

• Security-conscious, governance-aware, and comfortable operating in regulated environments.