Engineering Manager I – SAP CPI
Role Overview: As an Engineering Manager, you will actively engage in your engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in managing engineering teams to deliver solutions that delight customers and users, while also driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments. You will leverage your extensive engineering craftsmanship and advanced proficiency across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your exemplary track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. The ideal candidate will be a role model and engineering mentor, advocating engineering excellence, and leading cross-functional teams to design, develop, test, deploy, and operate advanced software solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Outcome-Driven Accountability: Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes. Lead engineering teams to deliver solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, lean designs and implementations.
Technical Leadership and Advocacy: Serve as the technical advocate for products and engineering teams, promoting and supporting evolutionary releases (e.g., alpha, beta, MVP). Ensure proper planning, code integrity, quality, alignment with customer goals, architecture designs, and NFRs.
Engineering Craftsmanship: Possess passion and experience as an individual contributor, responsible for fostering a culture of engineering excellence within the team, being hands-on with design, configuration and/or code part of the time, contributing to team velocity. Work daily with the engineering teams to resolve any issues, blockers, or impediments, perform code reviews and optimizations, maintain coding standards compliance, and ensure that technical debt is addressed continuously within sprints to achieve comprehensive quality. Be self-driven to learn new technologies, experiment with engineers, and inspire the teams to learn and drive application of those new technologies. Mentor and coach product engineering team to cultivate and nurture strong masters of crafts with passion towards product outcomes.
Customer-Centric Engineering: Lead engineering teams to develop lean solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs. Engage with customers and product teams to deliver the right solution for the product in the right way at the right time.
Incremental and Iterative Delivery: Exhibit a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning. Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Integration: Work collaboratively with empowered, cross-functional teams including product management, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security. Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value. Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.
Advanced Technical Proficiency: Possess deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles, Agile methodologies, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, deployment techniques like Blue-Green, Canary to minimize down-time and enable A/B testing approaches. Act as a Role-Model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery, ensuring high-quality outcomes with minimal waste. Demonstrate proficiency in product development, from conceptualization and design to implementation and scaling, with a focus on continuous improvement and learning.
Domain Expertise: Quickly acquire domain-specific knowledge relevant to the business or product. Translate business and user needs into engineering plans (e.g., sprint plans, enables, tasks, priorities). Navigate various enterprise functions such as business and enabling areas as well as product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security to drive product value and feasibility as well as alignment with organizational goals.
Effective Communication and Influence: Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly. Inspire and influence stakeholders at all levels through well-structured arguments and trade-offs supported by evidence, evaluations, and research. Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.
Engagement and Collaborative Co-Creation: Engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all organizational levels, from team members to senior executives. Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co-creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals. Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.
The team: US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte’s primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte’s success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world’s largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.
Requirements:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree (e.g., MS) preferred but not required.
- 12+ years of hands-on experience in SAP CPI/CI with focus on inetgrations with SAP Success Factors.
- Minimum 3 years managing engineering or technical teams in SAP HR environments.
Technical Skills:
- Deep expertise in SAP CI Cloud Integrations, API management & Webservices with a strong background on SAP SuccessFactors
- Experience working with SAP, SuccessFactors, CI middleware or related products.
- Working Knowledge in Groovy, XSLT, Java Script, and Message mapping
- Integrating SAP HR and SuccessFactors with internal/external systems
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Working knowledge service-oriented architecture (SOA)
- Working knowledge Enterprise application integration (EAI)
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- Having a working knowledge in cockpit, different pallet functions, standard and custom Iflows and admin-related tasks is crucial.
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Should have knowledge to effectively manage and optimize connections between SAP & non-SAP systems
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Extensive hands on experience on
- Compound Employee API
- Complex Iflows
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SF & SFTP Adapters
- BTP – Cockpit and administrative activities
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CI/CD, CTMS, Event Mesh, MDI (Master data Integration)
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Knowledge on CAPM, Joule, AI Core, PMT
Leadership & Project Management:
- Proven ability to lead and manage cross-functional engineering teams from inception to delivery.
- Establish and maintain detailed project plans, metrics, schedules, resource plans, and status reports.
- Identify project risks and develop effective mitigation strategies.
- Provide project leadership, direction, and feedback to team members.
- Motivate and influence teams beyond direct authority to achieve project milestones and deliverables.
- Convey project status and updates to global business leads and key stakeholders.
- Present formal presentations and executive summaries to Leadership, including recommendations and status updates.
Operational Responsibilities:
- Ensure SAP CI iflows are delivered according to business specifications and statutory requirements.
- Resolve escalated integrations issues, collaborating with Talent and application teams.
- Support and coordinate efforts of Subject Matter Experts, Development, QA, Usability, Training, Transport Management, and other internal resources for successful system enhancements and fixes.
- Contribute to the development of standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency across projects.
- Oversee the creation and maintenance of internal documentation and end-user training materials.
- Be the main point of contact and handle the design, development and delivery of the project.
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Support the Deloitte Core HR & SuccessFactors applications
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Act as primary liaison between business and technical resources to effectively communicate business requirements into high quality business solutions
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Team with customers to encourage business process improvements, to identify data integrity issues, and to implement proactive solutions
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Interact with development team on a regular basis - suggest and implement innovative ideas and solutions; ensure process adherence.
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Communicate effectively with clients and project team to ensure the requirements are met and recommend better solutions wherever applicable during the project.
- Review detailed systems design document and Design consistent, extensible, and integrated data access enterprise components across distinct data sources and platforms.
- Experience with technical programming; capable of managing and overseeing design, programming, and implementing various technical solutions.
- Design long-term, reliable, and end-to-end technical architectures. Develop functional architecture design and contribute to product vision.
- Serve as a technical liaison between the business, project team and developers/tester.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage diverse situations, complex projects, and shifting priorities with passion, empathy, and care.
How You will Grow: At Deloitte, our professional development plans focus on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day and excel in everything they do.
