Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Valvoline Global Operations is a pioneer in the automotive and industrial solutions industry, committed to innovation and sustainable solutions. The IT Senior Manager – Back Office Applications provides strategic and operational leadership for development teams supporting Valvoline’s back-office application portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and delivery of scalable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing SAP ABAP, SAP BTP, and other Backoffice development teams, driving accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Champion Fit-to-Standard delivery by aligning designs to standard SAP capabilities, minimizing customizations, and ensuring solution sustainability
- Establish and enforce SAP engineering standards, code review practices, and quality controls that reduce technical debt and improve maintainability
- Drive system and code performance through proactive performance engineering, tuning, and remediation to prevent regression and improve throughput
- Partner with functional leads, process owners, and delivery leaders to translate requirements into secure, scalable technical designs and well-executed solutions
- Own development discipline within the change lifecycle by leveraging SAP Cloud ALM (CALM) and ServiceNow for change, transport, release, and audit-ready documentation
- Collaborate with peer leaders to provide development services that integrate seamlessly into their delivery models and roadmaps, supporting a matrixed operating environment
- Coordinate with Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, and Run/Ops teams to ensure interoperability, NFR compliance (performance, security, resilience), and stable deployments
- Manage vendor and system integrator contributions where applicable, ensuring engineering quality, standards compliance, and effective knowledge transfer
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive-level audiences, through clear status, risk, and performance reporting
- Travel to corporate offices on a quarterly basis to build alignment with IT leaders, strengthen partnerships, and support key planning and execution activities
Skills
- 8–12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise application development, with 3–5+ years leading SAP ABAP engineering teams
- Deep expertise in SAP ABAP development (ECC and/or S/4HANA) including performance engineering, code quality, and scalable design patterns
- An understanding of the BTP Cloud Development and how it augments and enhances SAP solution delivery
- Demonstrated experience delivering Fit-to-Standard outcomes in SAP programs, balancing business needs with standard capability adoption
- Working knowledge of SAP Cloud ALM (CALM) for requirement-to-deploy traceability, testing, defect management, and release governance
- Strong experience using ServiceNow (or comparable ITSM) for change management, approvals, and audit-compliant change documentation
- Proven ability to lead across a matrixed organization, partnering with peer leaders and delivery teams to achieve shared outcomes
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills; comfortable interfacing with business leaders, architecture, and delivery executives
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required
- Ability to travel to corporate offices on a quarterly basis
- SAP certification(s)
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