SAP Technical Lead

Job Summary:
The Principal Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. Ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility, and integrations of solutions throughout. Advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and raises the engineering skills within the squad. Scope of delivery is for a single squad.

Responsibilities:
Responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application.  Maintains thoughtful application design that promotes reuse, portability, and ease of code maintenance. Builds subject matter expertise in the business area that the platform or application supports. Leads with high autonomy the execution and utilization of reference implementations, best practices, frameworks and standards, and architectural and design decisions within a squad. Notifies technical stakeholders of technical or functional changes.

Contributes to the team's backlog to capture work that promotes the team's mission and advances the team's technical foundation. Partners with teammates to refine the product backlog. Partners with peer Engineers and the Product Owner to lead the team in breaking down larger bodies of work (epics) into smaller, well-understood items (stories) that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensures stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Communicates with key partners and dependent squads to understand scope of planned work. Partners with Product Managers in the domain to inform prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap. Generates stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, and simplification.

Participates in team's agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Helps drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seeks ways to drive continuous improvement within team. Leads team through resolution of blockers, and implementation of new practices identified as part of team's continuous improvement goals.

Understands the team's application architecture and how it fits into the team's broader area as well as to the enterprise via key dependencies. Partners with Solution Architects to understand, help define, and adopt enterprise patterns and technology goals. Implements reference architectures with tool selection and implementation to deliver cost effective solutions that drive the right business value.  Helps maintain architecture documentation for relevant capabilities and systems.

Mentors individuals in the squad and peers on partner squads on technical delivery.  Works to build technical skills in teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn. Participates in communities of practice on technical topics and encourages team members to join where technical interests or development opportunities align.

Partners with established vendors on implementations, modernization, capability improvements, and framework updates. Influences partners' roadmaps. Performs technical evaluations and makes recommendations around new incoming solutions.

Establishes and manages quality standards, decisions, and implementations. Leverages automation where possible to create efficiency and reliability in delivery of software. Ensures application, performance, uptime, and scale. Defines and maintains high standards of code quality. Participates in peer code reviews to ensure quality, consistency, and knowledge transfer is part of regular delivery. Troubleshoots and fixes bugs and security risks. Identifies bottlenecks, patterns, and potential solutions related to incoming bugs and defects to improve software efficiency. Partners with peer engineers on software development lifecycle improvements. Creates and maintains support playbooks.

Leverages best practices, technologies, and instrumentation to lead the team in regular monitoring and observation of health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support and inform roadmap/backlog improvements. Partners with the squad and peers across squads to diagnose performance issues found in monitoring. Identifies and implements new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers and stakeholders.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Additional Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 8+ years of professional experience and mastery of relevant technical or business skills required to accomplish the job.
• 5+ years of designing Big Data systems and processes in a Cloud environment
• Expert in SQL and query optimization techniques
• 5+ years’ experience with programming languages
• 3+ years of Apache Spark with Python Experience in design and development of an Enterprise CI/CD process
• Expert in all technologies in the data platform (Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and SQLDB). 
• Coding proficiency in a modern programming or scripting language Azure stack experience preferred (Logic and Function apps)
• Knowledge of database systems (SQL)
• Experience in creating automation of repeatable tasks
• Strong understanding of data design concepts
• Demonstrated knowledge of SDLC and change management Demonstrated ability to create logical flow diagrams
• Excellent project and time management skills
• Ability to work and collaborate with cross functional teams, and manage partner expectations
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Ability to evaluate processes and drive improvement
• Ability to foster new ideas and concepts and make decisions surrounding complex issues
• Functional understanding of data architecture concepts
• Intermediate understanding of privacy laws and regulations
• Exposure to wholesale and/or retail solutions preferred
• Experience with Data Catalogs, business glossaries, data governance, and metadata management preferred
• Experience defining and implementing Data Governance models based on industry best-practices preferred
• Travel: None
• Work Schedule: Standard Hours

Career Band: Professional
Jobs on this career band have a knowledge management focus and are primarily responsible for results achieved through their own work. Requires the application of theoretical knowledge, typically gained through formal education or equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles and concepts of a defined profession. Jobs at higher career levels may guide small teams in their area of subject matter expertise. Jobs at the at the most senior levels of this career band set disciplinary strategy within their areas of expertise.

Criteria & Management Requirements:
• Problem Solving: Identifies and solves complex problems that impact multiple areas. Applies independent analysis based on in-depth research and critical thinking to recommend solutions.
• Decisions: Routinely analyzes unique issues or problems and functions with a high degree of autonomy.
• Knowledge: Requires specialized knowledge and expertise in own job discipline and deep experience in integrating related disciplinary knowledge. Applies specialized knowledge of industry standards/practices on key projects and initiatives.
• Business Acumen: Interprets internal/external business challenges. Recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services to distinguish from the competition.
• Communication & Influence: Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view. Converts technical information to compelling business context and advice.
• Impact: Decisions will have significant impact to multiple departments or disciplines.
• Leadership: Manages projects and end to end programs with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity. Provides training and leadership for other team members. Key role in planning and coordinating with others for projects or tasks. May contribute input to the performance review of other team members. Primary role is an individual contributor however may also manage one lower level employee.

Work Environment: Typical Office

Other Work Environment Requirements: 
Typical Office: Operates in a typical office environment, routinely uses computer and other standard office equipment.

Other Physical Requirements: 
Typical Office: Generally sedentary for prolonged periods, may occasionally require ability to move about or adjust/move items weighing up to 10 lbs. in all directions; Constantly requires collaboration and the ability to communicate with others to exchange information while in a typical office setting. Collaboration is generally conducted in person unless the role has been pre-approved for remote work.

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.