SAP Development Manager

About the role

The Manager, SAP Integration & Development role at WME Group is a hands-on technical leadership position responsible for driving SAP development, integration architecture, and technical delivery across the organization's global finance systems landscape.

Responsibilities

• SAP Development & Technical Leadership
• Design, develop, test, and deploy SAP custom applications, enhancements, reports, interfaces, conversions, forms, workflows, and integrations.
• Write and maintain ABAP code and contribute to development efforts across SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC environments.
• Serve as the senior technical lead for SAP development and integration initiatives.
• Participate directly in solution architecture, technical design, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and complex problem resolution.
• Perform code reviews for internal developers, consultants, and offshore teams to ensure adherence to development standards, performance requirements, security guidelines, and SAP best practices.
• Establish coding standards, development frameworks, quality assurance processes, and release management procedures.
• Provide technical coaching and mentorship through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Drive technical remediation and modernization efforts associated with SAP transformation programs.
• Integration Architecture & Delivery
• Design, build, and support integrations between SAP and enterprise applications.
• Lead integration initiatives involving finance, revenue, treasury, banking, travel, reporting, and third-party SaaS platforms.
• Develop and support APIs, web services, middleware integrations, and cloud-based integration solutions.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for SAP Integration Suite, BTP, and enterprise integration technologies.
• Establish integration governance, monitoring, support, and documentation standards.
• Participate in custom code analysis, remediation planning, and technical assessments.
• Evaluate existing integrations and recommend future-state architecture and integration approaches.
• Partner with implementation consultants and system integrators throughout project delivery.
• Team Leadership & Vendor Management
• Lead and coordinate global teams consisting of employees, contractors, consultants, system integrators, and offshore development resources.
• Manage day-to-day activities of offshore SAP development and integration teams to ensure quality, delivery, and operational excellence.
• Cook up technical delivery across internal teams and third-party implementation partners.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Operational Support
• Serve as the escalation point for complex technical and integration issues.
• Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Improve application performance, reliability, scalability, and support processes.
• Support production releases, upgrades, and ongoing optimization efforts.
• Ensure systems meet security, compliance, and audit requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of SAP technical development experience.
• Deep hands-on SAP S/4HANA development experience.
• Strong ABAP programming experience with demonstrated ability to design, develop, debug, review, and support enterprise-scale SAP solutions.
• Experience building and supporting complex SAP integrations using APIs, web services, middleware, SAP Integration Suite, and related technologies.
• Proven ability to remain hands-on in development activities while leading technical teams.
• Experience conducting code reviews and mentoring development teams.
• Experience managing offshore SAP development and support teams.
• Strong vendor management experience, including oversight of consulting partners and system integrators.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP ECC development and technical architecture experience.
• SAP Basis knowledge is a big plus.
• Experience supporting SAP ECC to S/4HANA transformation initiatives.
• Experience with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and SAP Integration Suite.
• Experience with .net is a big plus.
• Knowledge of Finance, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, Treasury, and Reporting processes.
• Experience integrating SAP with ERP, CRM, treasury, banking, reporting, data warehouse, travel, and cloud applications.
• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
• SAP certifications in S/4HANA, BTP, Integration Suite, or SAP development technologies.
• Experience within media, entertainment, sports, talent representation, licensing, royalty, or professional services organizations is a significant plus.