Senior SAP Integration Expert (all genders)

Job description:

As a Senior SAP Integration Expert, you will lead the modernization of client’s integration landscape and play a key role in our digital transformation. You will design and deliver reliable, secure, and scalable integrations across enterprise systems, with a strong focus on migrating from SAP PI/PO to SAP Integration Suite. In this hands‑on senior role, you will architect integration solutions and patterns - covering point‑to‑point, hub‑and‑spoke, API‑led, and event‑driven scenarios using Cloud Integration, API Management, and other BTP services.

Location: across Europe

What’s in it for you?

• You will have the opportunity to work with some of the biggest companies globally designing and delivering SAP‑led complex transformational programs, enhancing new skills in SAP and in Program & Solution Governance.
• This an opportunity to join a European team of senior SAP experts with a focus on "thought leadership, origination, sales and delivery of large transformation SAP programs across industries".
• The opportunity to lead large‑scale PI/PO to SAP Integration Suite migration programs that directly impact mission‑critical business processes.
• Broad functional exposure across EDI/B2B, cloud‑to‑cloud, on‑premise‑to‑cloud, API‑led, and event‑driven integrations, spanning multiple industries.
• Room to build thought leadership—contributing to internal frameworks, reusable assets, knowledge accelerators.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead complex migration initiatives from SAP PI/PO to SAP Integration Suite, covering assessment, solution design, build, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
• Assess existing PI/PO landscapes, analyze interfaces and scenarios, estimate migration complexity, and create detailed migration roadmaps and work plans.
• Design and implement integration solutions using SAP Integration Suite components, including Cloud Integration (CPI), API Management, Open Connectors, Event Mesh, and Trading Partner Management.
• Define and implement API strategies with SAP API Management—design, publish, secure, throttle, and monitor APIs that expose and consume backend services.
• Establish and maintain integration governance frameworks, including naming conventions, design standards, security guidelines, documentation practices, and monitoring KPIs.
• Collaborate with SAP functional consultants, enterprise architects, security teams, and third‑party vendors to ensure integration solutions align with business needs and architectural principles.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to integration developers and junior consultants through design reviews, code reviews, coaching, and knowledge‑sharing sessions.
• Track SAP Integration Suite roadmap and best practices, proactively recommending and driving adoption of new features, patterns, and tools that enhance integration capabilities.

Necessary Knowledge / Skills:

• Extensive, hands‑on experience with SAP integration technologies. Demonstrable experience in working with SAP Cloud Integration (CPI), now a core capability within SAP Integration Suite, plus hands‑on experience with other Integration Suite services (e.g., API Management, Event Mesh, Open Connectors).
• Strong understanding of integration patterns and architecture: synchronous vs. asynchronous messaging, publish–subscribe, request–reply, message routing, content‑based routing, aggregation, orchestration.
• Hands‑on experience designing and building iFlows in SAP Cloud Integration, using various adapters (SOAP, REST, IDoc, SFTP, OData, SuccessFactors, etc.).
• Deep expertise in SAP PI/PO (Process Integration/Process Orchestration), including ESR, Integration Directory, message mappings, and common adapters (Proxy, RFC, IDoc, SOAP, REST, file/SFTP, JMS, etc.).
• Proven experience delivering at least 2–3 full‑cycle PI/PO to SAP Integration Suite migration projects, including cutover and hypercare.
• Solid knowledge of message transformation techniques, including graphical mapping, XSLT, Groovy scripting, and Java mappings.
• Experience with SAP API Management, including API design, policy configuration, security (OAuth/JWT), throttling/rate limiting, and API analytics.
• Deep understanding of integration security concepts: certificate/keystore management, HTTPS, OAuth 2.0, Basic Authentication, Principal Propagation, and secure connectivity via SAP Cloud Connector.
• Strong communication skills, able to explain integration concepts and architectural decisions to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Certifications in SAP Integration Suite, SAP BTP, or cloud platform technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) are advantageous.
• Knowledge of SAP BTP architecture (including subaccount design) and other relevant services, including security and transport management.
• Knowledge of iPaaS concepts and experience comparing or working with other platforms (MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, Informatica, etc.).
• Background in SAP NetWeaver and ABAP, especially for proxies, RFCs, and custom integration enhancements.