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Responsibilities:
- Design, manage, and optimise the global SAP BTP account structure (sub-accounts, environments, entitlements) and system landscapes to ensure stability, high availability, and performance.
- Enforce technical governance, quality standards, and security policies across internal teams and external providers to prevent technical debt and ensure compliant implementations.
- Drive proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement, acting as the ultimate escalation point for complex platform, integration, and runtime issues.
- Collaborate closely with Architecture, Development, and Business teams to align custom solutions with SAP standard approaches, evaluate innovations, and provide long-term technology roadmaps.
- Drive the strategy and management of SAP Build Work Zone (Standard & Advanced) as the central, secure digital entry point for both SAP (S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba) and third-party applications.
- Design role-based, persona-oriented digital experiences, ensuring scalable portal use cases, seamless lifecycle management, and high adoption of Work Zone capabilities.
- Support SAP RISE and S/4HANA transformations by designing BTP-based integration, extension scenarios, and cost-optimized, transparent service consumption models.
- Govern access management and authorization concepts (including IAS/IPS, standardized role models, and least-privilege access) across both the BTP and Work Zone landscapes.
- Mentor junior colleagues, champion knowledge transfer, and advocate for best practices and documentation across the global team.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a comparable qualification; 7+ years of experience in SAP platforms, integrations, or cloud-based enterprise solutions.
- Proven hands-on experience with SAP BTP services (e.g. Integration Suite, Extension Suite, Workflow, Connectivity, API Management), SAP Build Work Zone (or SAP SAP Enterprise Portal / Fiori launchpad concepts) SAP RISE and S/4HANA transformation programs.
- Deep expertise in SAP BTP architecture, account models, life-cycle management, and security concepts (IAS/IPS, identity federation, and least-privilege authorisation models).
- Solid hands-on experience in ABAP (Modern concepts, CDS, RAP, ABAP Cloud) and BTP Full-Stack (Frontend: UI5/Fiori Elements; Backend: CAP based on Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript).
- Strong proficiency with SAP Integration Suite (CPI), state-of-the-art patterns (OData, REST, GraphQL, event-driven), and SAP Build Work Zone (Standard & Advanced).
- Experience in administration, performance tuning, and optimization of SAP HANA and PostgreSQL databases, alongside general SAP Basis/infrastructure knowledge.
- Understanding of cloud-native networking, automation/scripting, and ITIL-based operations (incident/problem management, AMS governance).
- Strong analytical skills, high-quality awareness for sustainable solutions, and the ability to take full ownership in a global, distributed environment.
- Strong communication skills to bridge technical and business audiences globally; fluent English is required, German is a plus.
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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