Technical Manager, Integration Suite & AI Enablement

We are seeking a high-level contributor to serve as the Technical Manager for our Integration Suite. This is a hands-on development role focused on building the connective tissue between our SAP core and our evolving AI capabilities. You will be the primary architect and developer responsible for ensuring our data flows are optimized for AI model consumption, real-time analytics, and seamless SAP functional operations., * Hands-on Development: Direct responsibility for building, testing, and deploying complex integrations using SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration, API Management, Event Mesh).

• AI Data Orchestration: Design and develop high-performance APIs and data pipelines that enable AI/ML services to interact with S/4HANA and third-party data sources.
• Design Mentorship: Act as the "North Star" for the broader integration team, providing architectural guidance, code reviews, and design patterns that others can follow.
• SAP Functional Alignment: Leverage your understanding of SAP modules (e.g., SD, MM, FI) to ensure that technical integrations respect business logic and standard SAP best practices.
• Performance Tuning: Optimize integration flows for high-volume AI workloads, ensuring low latency and high reliability for model inference and training data extraction.

Education Level : Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related technical field and 5-8 years of progressive experience performing SAP system integrations, * Expertise in SAP Integration: Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in designing and developing integration solutions such as SAP Integration Suite (IS), Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), and legacy PI/PO.

• API & AI Connectivity: Minimum 2-5 years of experience performing API Management using IS and Open Connectors, specifically focused on building secure, high-performance APIs that enable AI/ML model consumption and data orchestration.
• Basic Fluency with agentic coding using tools like cursor, claude code or joule for coding
• Legacy Migration & Modernization: Minimum 2 years of experience in migrating complex interfaces from legacy systems (PI/PO, Mulesoft, or Dell Boomi) to SAP Integration Suite, ensuring "AI-ready" data structures during the transition.
• Cross-Platform Ecosystems: Minimum 2 years of experience developing and configuring IS and Open Connectors between SAP and non-SAP environments (e.g., Salesforce, Vector Databases, or Hyperscaler AI services).
• Hybrid Landscape Mastery: Minimum 2 years of experience in middleware setup and optimization for both SAP ECC and S/4HANA systems, including Cloud Connector configuration and Principal Propagation.
• SAP Functional Integration: Demonstrated experience (2+ years) working with SAP Functional modules (SD, MM, FI, or PP) to ensure integration logic aligns with core business processes and data schemas.
• Technical Leadership (Hands-on): Proven ability to lead the architectural design of integration patterns, providing mentorship and best-practice frameworks to the broader team while remaining 100% active in code development.

The starting budgeted pay range for this role will generally fall between $140,000.00 - $164,700.00 per year. Scotts will consider various factors in determining the actual pay including your skills, qualifications, experience, and geographical location.In addition to the determined base salary, this role is also incentive eligible under our corporate bonus programs.For remote roles where the final candidate resides in Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oregon or Washington, state required pay thresholds will be factored into base salary.

$140000 - $164700 USD per year

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