What are the responsibilities and job description for the SAP Manager position at EDF Renewables?
Scope of Job:
The SAP Manager is an experienced software development manager that leads the SAP ERP team. The North American SAP team at EDF Renewables has made the transition to agile delivery and is made of colleagues with different experience levels. The SAP Manager will help and lead the team continue to develop and learn the skills needed to adapt to the latest approach to SAP: S/4HANA, Cloud, CI/CD.
This leadership position will showcase the strategic thinking, coordination and mentoring skills as the SAP Manager navigates the team towards the continuous development and improvement of the company’s ERP, SAP. EDF Renewables’ adoption of AI and machine learning technologies to reduce the barriers between our (internal and external) customers and their data will leverage the knowledge of the advances in the SAP landscape to deliver meaningful solutions that more effectively produce renewable energy.
Responsibilities:
Lead, develop, and coach the team of functional analysts and developers for organizational and educational growth
Hiring and on-boarding, performance reviews, career development support
Cultivating strong teams and keeping working practices and team agreements healthy
Continuously improving the way we work to ensure delivery of a high quality product
Enabling and fostering creativity and innovation within those processes
Helping teams adapt to our rapidly changing corporate and industry landscape
Connect strategic advancements in SAP’s roadmap to EDF Renewables’ business value
Actively contribute to vision, strategy, architecture, and own the technical roadmap for SAP
Create an environment of education, trust, openness, agility, and motivation
Support the team learning agile software development approaches while transforming the software development process according to the DevOps principles
Facilitate the creation and implementation of complex technical solutions with the team
Coach the team to estimate complexity and effort to enable to smooth delivery flow
Optimal team staffing: The right people in the right seats with the right skills at the right time
Promote and support a culture of safety
Supervision of Others:
None
Qualifications:
Five to seven years of demonstrated experience leading SAP development teams as a delivery manager, technical lead, architect, or senior developer
Familiarity with SAP cloud engineering practices, SAP Activate, SAP ChaRM, API management Service Oriented environments, Cloud Native Architecture, Big Data and Enterprise Data Warehouse a plus
Experience with shifting teams to iterative and incremental software development and delivery using Continuous Integration, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, backlog development, story writing, task development, and release management
Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tool for work management and reporting
Experience in conflict resolution and leading by example through values of openness, honesty and respect
Working Conditions:
95% of time is spent in the office environment / working remote, utilizing computers (frequent use of various Microsoft software/programs), phones, and general office equipment. 5% of time is spent outside of the office visiting vendors’ and/or internal customers’ sites in additional to attending various conferences and meetings. Fiscal Responsibilities:
