Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.
This role provides leadership for custom application development, integrations, extensions, automation, and innovation capabilities within the SAP ecosystem. The position ensures all enhancements are developed using modern SAP architecture principles while minimizing technical debt and preserving clean-core strategies. As guardian of SAP extensibility and platform innovation, the role enables business differentiation without compromising system stability. The leader drives adoption of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) capabilities to accelerate digital innovation and future scalability. This capability is essential to ensure the transformed ERP environment remains adaptable to evolving business requirements.
Development leadership
● Lead a global ABAP and BTP engineering team across onshore and offshore, spanning template build,
deployment wave support, and sustaining engineering.
● Own the technical backlog, capacity plan, and delivery commitments across product domains, working directly
with functional solution owners and process leads.
● Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, performance, security, ATC checks, peer review, unit
testing, and documentation.
● Establish CI/CD pipelines, transport governance, and release management across the landscape, with quality
gates enforced in the pipeline rather than in review meetings.
Clean core custodianship
● Own the extensibility decision framework and act as approval authority for any classical modification or in-core
enhancement, with escalation rather than absorption when the standard is challenged.
● Drive extensions to key-user and developer extensibility, side-by-side on BTP, and released SAP APIs and BAdIs.
● Own custom code lifecycle management: inventory, usage analytics, remediation, retirement, and continuous
reduction of the custom footprint. Custom code is a liability with a carrying cost, and you own the trend line.
● Ensure the landscape stays upgrade-ready so RISE release cycles and innovation adoption remain routine.
BTP platform ownership
● Own the BTP architecture and its services — Integration Suite, Build, Application Development (CAP/RAP),
Event Mesh, Workflow, Business Rules, and Datasphere where relevant.
● Establish BTP governance: subaccount and space design, entitlement management, identity and
authorization, DevOps tooling, and cost transparency by consumer.
● Build the API and event layer that exposes core business capability safely to satellite applications, partners,
and AI services.
● Provide the technical foundation for AI and agent enablement — Joule extensibility, AI Core and AI Foundation
services, and integration patterns that are production-grade rather than demo-grade.
Reusable assets and enablement
● Build and maintain the golden path: reference architectures, code templates, integration patterns, security
patterns, and shared services that teams consume rather than rebuild.
● Support deployment waves through interface build, conversion support objects, performance tuning, and
hypercare defect resolution.
● Partner with security on authorization design, SoD-safe development, and evidence generation through GRC.
● Manage system integrator and AMS partner engineering quality, staffing continuity, and adherence to Xylem standards.
Qualifications
Required
● 15+ years in SAP technical development, with at least 5 years leading global engineering teams.
● Deep, current, hands-on ABAP expertise: ABAP for Cloud, RAP, CDS views, OData, AMDP, OO ABAP, and
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