SAP Platform Engineer - SAP Platform Services

Overview

Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible. The global Information Technology (IT) Function aligns IT and business strategy, optimizes end-to-end processes, and delivers IT applications, infrastructure, and project services worldwide.

Requisition Number: 72224

At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. Corning welcomes you to break through with us.

Overview: Corning’s global IT team aligns IT and business strategy, maximizes IT investments, and streamlines end‑to‑end processes. We deliver applications, infrastructure, and project services worldwide to improve business competitiveness.

We are consolidating Corning’s ERP environments onto a shared SAP S/4

HANA platform to increase capabilities, efficiency, agility, and reduce cost. This includes migrating from ECC 6 and People Soft via greenfield and brownfield projects, maintaining stable ECC operations while building and scaling S/4

HANA, and supporting multiple global implementations.

Seeking an experienced engineer to build and evolve our shared SAP platform - tools, services, processes, and data - spanning infrastructure, applications, integrations, and strategic objectives.

• Provide technical thought leadership to internal and project teams around SAP platform services and capabilities.
• Collaborate across SAP Platform Services, Solution Architecture, Basis, DBAs, Cloud/Infrastructure, Operations/Delivery, Data Office, and Service Line leaders.
• Implement SAP technical best practices; monitor and optimize performance; automate deployments; maintain and update platform components; troubleshoot issues; stay current on industry trends.
• Support a hybrid on-prem/cloud landscape across S/4
  
  HANA and related systems (MDG, CFIN, SLT, BI, ECC, GTS, HCM, SRM, SCM, BW), add-ons/bolt-ons, BTP, Open Text, Vertex.
• Partner with Security, Development, and PMO on outages, maintenance, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Drive cross-team architecture and design; plan/design/build/support IT products; run design walkthroughs; serve as an escalation point; improve system design and delivery; contribute to the strategic roadmap; validate requirements against extensibility frameworks and SAP BTP.
• Understand emerging cloud tech (AWS, SAP BTP, Cloud ALM, and SAP cloud services); guide estimation and planning; lead small work groups and report KPIs.

• BS in IT, engineering, or business.
• 10 years leading complex ERP/SAP development projects with on-time delivery.
• Deep SAP technical skills including in-depth experience in at least one of the following areas: ABAP, Fiori/UI5, integration, reporting with hands-on S/4
  
  HANA, including upgrades.
• Experience with modern SAP technologies including in-depth experience in at least one of the following areas: BTP, HANA/CDS, Fiori, in-app extensibility, SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Strong decision-making and collaboration; able to escalate appropriately.

Less than 25%

Monday–Friday, standard business hours. Some early/evening meetings and periodic weekend work for time zones and maintenance windows.

• Critical thinking, problem solving, and bias for action.
• Coaching/mentoring and continuous improvement mindset.
• Strong cross-organizational communication, facilitation, and teaming.
• Ability to balance competing interests and solve problems in global, virtual environments.
• Sound judgment, listening, creativity, negotiation, and willingness to challenge the status quo.

This position does not support immigration sponsorship.

The range for this position is $ - $ assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.