The Integration Lead is responsible for enterprise-wide ownership of SAP integration execution to enable secure, scalable, and reusable integrations across SAP and non SAP systems, supporting S/4HANA and cloud platforms under defined governance, security, and performance standards‑SAP systems, supporting S/4HANA and cloud platforms under defined governance, security, and performance standards.
Goal of function:
Own the SAP integration strategy and execution across the enterprise, ensuring secure, scalable, and reusable integrations that enable end-to-end business processes across SAP and non-SAP systems. Provide leadership for API-led connectivity, data exchange, and event-driven patterns to support S/4HANA and cloud platforms while complying with governance, security, and performance standards and Data Privacy.
Organization:
The function incumbent reports to: SAP Center of Excellence - SAP COE Lead
Tasks:
Lead Application Maintenance and Development activities, ensuring seamless integration between S/4HANA and internal/external systems using SAP Business Technology Platform Integration Suite (IS).
Lead L2/L3 support for integration interfaces and middleware components.
Validate and Architect the Integration design and Solutions
Manage incident resolution, root cause analysis (RCA), and defect remediation.
Provide governance for enhancements and Recommend Best Practices.
Ensure SLA adherence and optimize interface performance.
Lead and mentor the integration team members.
Provide effort estimation, resource planning, and status reporting
Collaborate with functional and technical teams for end-to-end delivery
Secondary Tasks:
Coach and mentor integration developers; perform design/code reviews and promote best practices.
Drive automation for build and deployment (CI/CD) of integration artifacts.
Partner with Basis, Security, and Data teams on performance tuning, identities, and data quality controls.
Lead complex cutovers and hypercare for integration-heavy releases.
Evaluate emerging SAP/BTP integration capabilities and recommend adoption roadmaps.
Contribute to vendor RFPs and SoW reviews for integration tooling and services.
Key Performance Indicators:
Please list distinguishing qualitative and quantitative features by means of which performance in the position can be measured.
Interface availability and performance SLAs (throughput, latency, error rate).
Defect density and mean time to detect/resolve (MTTD/MTTR) for integration incidents.
Deployment success rate and lead time for changes (CI/CD).
Reusability/adoption of standardized integration assets and APIs.
Compliance with security and data governance controls (e.g., SoD, PII handling).
Qualifications, experience, know-how, and skills critical for success:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
12+ years of SAP integration experience, with at least 4+ years on SAP BTP Integration Suite.
Strong experience integrating SAP S/4HANA with SAP and non-SAP systems.
Hands-on expertise in BTP-IS, API Management, and middleware architecture.
Experience in SAP S/4HANA-BTP-IS Integration, Development & Maintenance of environments.
Proven experience in leading offshore teams and Co-Ordinating Onsite and near-shore teams.
SAP BTP or Integration Suite certification (MUST).
Important personal qualities:
Customer-centric, outcome-driven, and pragmatic.
Strong leadership and coaching capability.
Analytical and structured problem solver; attention to detail with a quality mindset.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management across business and IT.
Other specialized knowledge:
SAP PI/PO, SAP Cloud Integration (CPI), SAP BTP Integration Suite (API Management, Event Mesh, Integration Advisor).
EDI Integration experience dealing with ANSI X12, EDIFACT, EDICOM. Dealing with 3PL integrations.
Experience using Groovy Script and JavaScript.
API-first and event-driven integration patterns; security (OAuth2, SAML, TLS/SSL).
IDoc/RFC/ALE, OData/REST/SOAP; message mapping, error handling, retries, and monitoring.
DevOps/CI-CD for SAP integration artifacts; Git, Jenkins/Azure DevOps, transport automation.
SAP ChaRM or Cloud ALM for change and transport control
SAP S/4HANA and 3rd Party integration (IDoc, OData, SOAP, RFC, REST, EDI)
Life Sciences Industry experience (preferred).
Exposure to GXP standards.
Fluent English; additional European language a plus.
Proficiency with SAP Solution Manager/Cloud ALM, Interface Monitoring (e.g., SAP Application Interface Framework/PAI), and log/metric tools; working knowledge of Azure/AWS services for connectivity.
S/4HANA core processes (O2C, P2P/S2P, M2D, R2R), SAP Ariba, SuccessFactors, and common non-SAP SaaS endpoints.
Willingness to work with global teams across time zones; occasional travel; support critical releases as needed.