Lead the technical design, development, governance, and delivery of SAP EWM warehouse automation solutions. Own ASRS integration with automation vendors, including interface design, message mapping, error handling, inventory, replenishment, and pallet movement processes. Coordinate SAP teams, implementation partners, vendors, and PMO stakeholders while managing the development backlog, quality standards, testing, deployment, cutover, go-live, and hypercare for a large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation.
This is a remote position.
We are seeking a highly experienced, hands-on SAP EWM ASRS Development Lead to join a large-scale SAP transformation program for a leading manufacturing organisation. This is a senior, technical leadership role for someone with very strong SAP EWM and warehouse automation experience who can ramp up quickly and make an immediate impact.
You will work closely with the client’s internal SAP team, implementation partners and external automation vendors. You will provide technical leadership and drive key design and integration decisions. As the link between the PMO, SAP functional teams, architects and developers, you will keep development moving smoothly from requirements through build, testing, defect resolution and deployment. You will also make sure SAP EWM integrates seamlessly with warehouse automation (ASRS) systems.
Requirements
Technical Leadership
- Lead end-to-end technical design and development of SAP EWM warehouse automation solutions
- Drive key design and integration decisions across SAP EWM and automation systems
- Define development standards, architecture patterns and integration frameworks for EWM and ASRS
- Review and approve technical specifications, development objects and solution designs
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for EWM custom developments, enhancements, reports, interfaces, forms and workflows
ASRS Integration Ownership
- Serve as the primary technical contact for ASRS and automation vendors
- Coordinate interface design, message mapping, error handling, acknowledgements and exception processing between SAP EWM and vendor systems
- Deliver inbound, outbound, inventory, replenishment and pallet movement integration processes
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with the client’s internal SAP team, implementation partners and external vendors
- Align multiple teams and vendors around shared priorities, decisions and timelines
- Communicate status, risks and technical decisions clearly to the PMO and program leadership
Development Pipeline & Delivery
- Maintain a prioritised, development-ready backlog aligned with project milestones
- Make sure requirements, specifications, dependencies and approvals are complete before development begins
- Manage work through Ready → Assigned → Development → Unit Test → Functional Validation → Transport → Complete
- Control work-in-progress, and resolve stalled work, bottlenecks and resource constraints
- Translate project plans into a development demand plan and balance it against available capacity
- Give the PMO clear visibility into status, capacity, blockers, risks and upcoming demand
Quality & Governance
- Enforce development standards, documentation, technical and code reviews, and unit testing
- Coordinate delivery of RICEFW objects, ABAP, BAdIs, APIs, IDocs, SAP AIF, Fiori and related integrations
- Make sure development is ready for SIT and UAT, and drive root-cause resolution of recurring defects
- Support the program through design, build, testing, cutover, go-live and hypercare
Experience
- Senior, lead-level SAP EWM technical professional with a hands-on approach
- 8+ years of SAP technical experience
- 5+ years of SAP EWM implementation experience
- 3+ years leading warehouse automation or ASRS integration projects
- Experience working directly with leading warehouse automation vendors
- Proven ability to ramp up quickly and deliver in a fast-paced program environment
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Supply Chain Systems or a related field
Technical Skills
SAP EWM, SAP S/4HANA, ABAP, BAdIs and enhancements, SAP AIF, IDocs, APIs, SOAP/REST services, middleware integration, and event-driven integration architectures
Warehouse Automation Knowledge
ASRS integration, conveyance systems, WCS, WES, handling units, RF transactions, automated pallet movement, inventory automation and material flow systems
Soft Skills
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management across multiple teams and vendors
- Clear communicator with program leadership and technical teams alike
Preferred
- SAP EWM certification
- Experience in high-volume food and beverage manufacturing
- Experience supporting 24x7 warehouse operations
- Automation implementation in large-scale distribution facilities
- Familiarity with SAP BTP integration patterns
- Knowledge of automated palletising and mixed pallet building
Benefits
- Location: [remote]
- Travel: 25% travel to Buffalo, New York
What We Offer
- The chance to lead technical delivery on a large-scale SAP S/4HANA and warehouse automation program
- Work alongside the client’s SAP team, implementation partners and automation vendors
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