SAP Integration SME & Delivery Lead

Job Description:

Role: SAP Integration SME & Delivery Lead

Exp: 10+ Years

Location: Pune / Bangalore /Hyderabad (Looking for Only Pune,Bangalore and Hyderabad Candidates only)

Employment Type: C2H

NP: Immediate

Role Overview

The SAP Integration SME & Delivery Lead will be responsible for end-to-end architecture, delivery governance, and execution of integrations across SAP and non-SAP systems using SAP BTP Integration Suite. This role requires deep hands-on expertise combined with program-level ownership, stakeholder management, and delivery assurance.

The individual will act as the single-point owner for integration strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and clean-core compliant integration designs aligned with SAP best practices.

Key Responsibilities

Define enterprise-wide integration architecture using SAP BTP Integration Suite (CPI, API Management, Event Mesh).

Design integration patterns for S/4HANA (On-Prem & Cloud), ECC, SAP IBP, Ariba, SuccessFactors, and non-SAP applications.

Establish standards for synchronous/asynchronous integrations, APIs, events, and message orchestration.

Drive Clean Core compliant integration designs avoiding custom core modifications.

Lead end-to-end integration delivery across multiple workstreams and vendors.

Own integration roadmap, milestones, RAID, and dependency management.

Review and approve Functional Specs, Technical Specs, and Integration Design Documents (IDDs).

Ensure adherence to SLAs, performance benchmarks, and security standards.

Manage SIT, UAT, Cutover, and Go-Live integration readiness.

Hands-on leadership on:

o SAP Cloud Integration (iFlows, adapters, mappings)

o API Management (REST/OData APIs, policies, throttling)

o Event-driven integrations using Event Mesh

o Secure connectivity via Cloud Connector

Guide teams on OAuth2, Certificates, JWT, PGP, Encryption, and key management.

Act as integration SPOC for business, SAP functional teams, BASIS, security, and infrastructure teams.

Coordinate with external vendors and system integrators.

Define monitoring, alerting, and error-handling strategies.

Lead hypercare and L3 support for critical integrations.

Drive performance tuning, resiliency, and scalability improvements.

Required Skills & Expertise

SAP BTP Integration Suite (CPI, API Mgmt, Event Mesh)

SAP S/4HANA (On-Prem & Cloud), ECC

REST, OData, SOAP, IDoc, RFC, EDI

JSON, XML, XSLT, Groovy scripting

Integration patterns (Point-to-Point, Hub-Spoke, Event-Driven)

API-led architecture

OAuth2, SAML, SSL, Certificates

Clean Core, Extensibility, and SAP recommended practices