Manager, Software Engineering (SAP BTP Integration)

Company Description
We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Comcast NBCUniversal has announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company ('SpinCo') comprised of most of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel along with complementary digital assets Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass, and SportsEngine. The well-capitalized company will have significant scale as a pure-play set of assets anchored by leading news, sports and entertainment content. The spin-off is expected to be completed during 2025.
As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
Job Description
NBCUniversal's product and engineering teams drive transformation of key Finance processes across Record-to-Report (RTR), Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Order-to-Cash (OTC), Treasury, Tax and FP&A. In additional, our engineering teams will play a key role in cross-functional workstreams like Transformation Management Office (TMO), master data governance, reporting, security, risk and controls and change management.
Project Keystone will be a multi-year endeavor, driving NBCUniversal's transformation goal of building a globally standardized, flexible, and data-driven business platform that enables NBCU to make better and faster decisions based on real time insights.
This Manager, Software Engineering role will oversee the implementation, management, and optimization of SAP BTP solutions within the organization, leading RTR team and S2P team of developers and architects to design, build, and deploy cloud-based applications utilizing BTP tools ensuring alignment with business objectives and best practices across the platform.
Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a team of SAP professionals (onsite and offshore) in designing, developing and implementing SAP solutions adhering to NBCU engineering standards
• Work with the team of architects and onsite leads to improve SAP BTP engineering development strategy, architecture, and governance of application development and engineering related activities for NBCU
• Manage team and work with product and other engineering teams to architect, design and evaluate different technical design options for custom development options keeping in mind industry best practices and NBCU development standards
• Provide estimates for technical work effort when required and ensure high-quality and on-schedule deliverables
• Design, develop, track and produce reports on complex technical project plans in line with overall PMO published build and development timelines
• Take a lead role in maintaining and enforcing development standards, and providing architecture and design guidance to the development team
• Manage relationships with Product Teams, Change Management, Testing and other Engineering teams like BASIS and SAP ABAP development team to identify opportunities for improvements or cost savings
• Mentor and train application developers and other engineering team members keeping in mind NBCU's Operations and Technology goals in mind to foster a high performing engineering team
• Stay ahead with the latest SAP technologies and trends to provide recommendations for adoption and integration
• This person will drive innovation and exploration in the SAP Engineering space at NBCU. They will encourage and support experimentation with new SAP technologies and tools. This involves setting aside dedicated time for team members to explore and prototype solutions, and organizing internal hackathons or knowledge-sharing sessions to ensure the team stays current and competitive
• Responsible for contributing to integration solutions between SAP and non-SAP systems

Qualifications
Basic Requirements:

• Education degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering or related discipline with an information technology focus, or an equivalent combination of education and training that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential functions of the job
• Experience as an Architect/Senior consultant with a total of 7+ years SAP integration (development) experience, including 4+ years as a Team Lead and a minimum of 2+ years as a people manager.
• Working knowledge on various large-scale implementations.
• Experience independently managing and leading a large development team engaged in SAP BTP including activities such as providing estimates, planning and managing execution as well as reporting of status of technical build activities including issues and risks
• Deep knowledge of software development life cycle and release management cycle phases including the different testing life cycles.
• Experience performing system monitoring tasks to ensure business continuity
• Familiarity with change management procedures using cloud transport management
• Experience in overseeing Cloud Connector configuration activities, including mappings for HTTP, RFC and TCP protocols.
• Understand connectivity principles and system performance considerations.
• Be able to describe topics such as high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and security best practices.
• Participate in establishing governance process for user access management and update processes.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, policies, and troubleshooting approaches.
• Experience in transformation projects e.g., from SAP ECC to S/4 HANA (S/4 Conversions, green field, brown field, blue field etc.)
• SAP BTP Development Experience:
  • Strong development skills in SAP BTP and its component tools and former SAP integration tools
  • Strong troubleshooting skills to assess performance, support in monitoring and tracing to make recommendations for improvements

Desired Characteristics:

• Relevant SAP technical certification
• Knowledge working with AEM, API management and Cloud ALM
• Confirmed ability to be flexible and agile, both independently and in a team
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage and collaborate in a team environment

Additional Requirements:

• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee's residence.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $140,000 - $200,000 (bonus eligible)
We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.
Additional Information
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