The Lead SAP Engineer will be part of a team providing technical leadership and support for the SAP business systems and participate in strategic projects as needed. The individual shall contribute to strengthening the business processes, performing both technical analysis and systems support activities. The ideal candidate will have prior manufacturing industry experience, SAP development leadership experience, be initiative-taking and thrive in a fast-paced work environment with complex operations.
Summary of Responsibilities:
- Be the technical leader and architect to support the production environments for all SAP modules employed by the business.
- Understand the overall SAP direction.
- Ensure the modules supported and their integration points with other systems and modules are aligned with the SAP road map.
- Understand the Cleveland Cliffs SAP landscape and architecture to better maintain the environment and manage vendor relationships that provide managed service to support the SAP systems.
- Ability to lead a team of technical resource including developers and basis staff members.
- Be able to provide technical guidance, review transport listings, approve any infrastructure changes, and approve installs.
- Ensure sustainability of the SAP processes configured in these modules.
- Ensure all new developments conform to standards, and ensure the standards are kept up to date.
- Hands on designing, specifying, configuring, and approving to move changes to production.
- Lead and perform technical mapping, gap analysis, and recommend the best way to address the gaps.
- Write and approve detailed technical specifications for workflow, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms (WRICEF). Ensure that the solution implemented in each phase is consistent with the overall direction and the end state.
- Author technical specifications at the level required for off-site ABAP or other technical development.
- Estimate the development effort required.
- Responsible for technical performance of developers working on SAP changes.
- Perform change reviews and promote change requests to production.
- Coordinate self and other technical developers along with communication and support with business users.
- Review and align with the IT teams to ensure accurate delivery of changes required by the business.
- Assign technical work to team members and perform technical workload balancing.
- Provide level 3 support for production systems and project implementations, as necessary.