Custom Software Engineering Lead

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 Sales and Distribution (SD)
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 15 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:
As an SAP SD Sales & Distribution Consultant, you will hold design authority and delivery accountability for the process area, leading multiple workstreams while remaining personally hands-on on the hardest design and configuration for Sales & Distribution (SD) within the Commercial / Order to Cash tower of the DRS SAP programme. The role exists to provide core SAP SD capability across the order-to-cash process area, holding the organisational structure, document flow and cross-module design on which the specialist modules depend.
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

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 deliver to, and own the delivery risk position reported to programme governance.
SD Core Configuration: Configure and support SAP SD core: organisational structure, sales document types, item and schedule line categories, copy control, delivery and billing document flow.
Cross-Process Design: Contribute to order-to-cash design across order, delivery, billing and pricing, and keep decisions consistent across the process chain rather than optimised per module.
Master Data Dependency Management: Work with the owning towers on customer, material and pricing master data, and resolve process failures caused by data rather than configuration.
Cross-Module Design Consistency: Keep design decisions consistent across order, delivery, billing and pricing, and arbitrate where two specialist modules want incompatible behaviour from the same document or master object.
Integration & Dependencies: Operate across the full order-to-cash chain and into Finance for revenue posting and into Inventory, EWM and TM for fulfilment. Credit Management, Collections, Cash Application and Customer Master Data are owned by the Finance tower.
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 order-to-cash failures that cross module boundaries and have no clear owner: 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 order-to-cash design review and cross-module exception analysis 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 to 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
SAP SD Core: Deep hands-on configuration across SD core: organisational structure, document types, item categories, copy control and document flow in S/4HANA or ECC.
Order to Cash Breadth: Expert-level capability across order, delivery, billing and pricing rather than depth in one area only.
Integration Knowledge: Comprehensive command of SD integration to FI, MM, Inventory and warehouse execution.
Problem Diagnosis: Proven capability to trace an order-to-cash failure end to end and identify where in the chain it originated.
Flexible Deployment: Breadth across the process area, with the capability to deepen into a specialist module as programme scope requires.
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.
Hands-On Currency: Hands-on configuration or design-level build work on the primary skill within the last 24 months. Advisory, pre-sales, governance or oversight-only experience during that period does not satisfy this requirement. Where recent experience is advisory, a technical validation forms part of selection.
Technical Mentoring & Capability Building: Demonstrated development 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 S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition order-to-cash scope items
Advanced returns, ATP or condition contract specialisation
SD data conversion from ECC to S/4HANA
Fiori order-to-cash application set

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.
Working proficiency in SAP Joule for Consultants, either held on appointment or achieved within 90 days of joining.

15 years full time education

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