Lead Engineer- SAP Financials

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Lead Engineer – SAP Financials will be the direct leader responsible for the day-to-day development and support of our SAP-related financial applications working with our global teams. The position requires a strong well-rounded SAP technical leader to quickly learn the overall business and technology processes supported by the team while also eager to learn and grow skills within the SAP landscape consisting of SAP ECC, S/4, BTP (Business Technology Platform) and multiple SaaS solutions. Position requires hands on development expertise along with solid integration and security knowledge.
Lead Engineers are expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. The Lead Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Frequently advise others on complex engineering matters.

• Build foundation to translate strategy into challenging and meaningful goals

• Manage teams that are responsible for strategic and critical pieces of architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business.

• Act as an authority in software best practices and be relied upon to propagate these in the broader organization, beyond their individual team.

• Expert ability to view the organization as a whole.

• Leverage and influence key stakeholders

Specific to SAP technical responsibilities:  

• Designing, configuring, and implementing SAP solutions to meet complex business challenges.

• Working directly with business and technical teams in assessing and providing technology support

• Understanding multiple end-to-end business and technology processes

• Knowledgeable of technical details, integration, and functions of SAP and non-SAP systems 

• Evaluating potential system enhancements and upgrades and influencing the product roadmap

• Identifying and implementing process improvements and product simplification opportunities

• Providing technical or functional leadership for team members

• Ensuring industry and technology best practices are followed for development.

Job Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in SAP Financials, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership or managerial role. (Preferred)

• You have deep understanding of SAP S/4 and the modern SAP ecosystem

• You have software configuration and development experience in areas of ABAP, CDS views, OData services, API’s and ABAP RESTful programming

• You have experience working in SAP-Fiori/UI5, BRF+, Workflow

• You have deep understanding of technology best practices in areas of development and security.

• You have experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Agile SCRUM methodologies.

• You have excellent problem-solving skills and love to continuously learn.

• You are a team player and have well-developed verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

• You are dedicated, self-directed, motivated, proactive, and inquisitive.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 10 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

#LI-MF1

Skills

Leadership, SAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming), SAP FI CO Finance, SAP Financial Accounting, SAP Knowledge, SAP Solutions, SAP Systems, Team Management

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $141,800.00 - 219,200.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.

For jobs in San Francisco, please click “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

To view the “EEO is the Law” poster click “here”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

To view the FMLA poster, click “here”. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.

It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.