Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : SAP Product Lifecycle Management
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Summary:
As an SAP PLM Consultant, you will own a module workstream end to end, from design decisions through to cutover, leading a small team while remaining hands-on for D2C (interpretation to be confirmed) within the Supply chain & logistics tower of the DRS SAP programme. The role exists to own product lifecycle data and its readiness for direct-to-consumer channels, where product information must be complete and governed before a product becomes sellable.
You carry the workstream delivery commitment: defensible estimates, early disclosure of risk, and diagnosis to root cause rather than escalation. You are expected to make AI a measurable productivity lever for your team, governed by a defined validation standard.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Scope & Decision Rights: Own the module design. You determine configuration approach, estimates and sequencing for the workstream and approve the deliverables of the engineers you lead cross-module design changes are agreed with the process area lead.
Product Structure & BOM Management: Configure and support product master, bill of material structures, document management and classification across the product lifecycle.
Engineering Change Management: Configure engineering change management, including change requests and change orders, effectivity and the controlled release of product changes into manufacturing and sales.
Channel Data Readiness: Define and govern the product attributes, media references and channel-specific data required for direct-to-consumer selling, and the gate that stops incomplete products reaching the channel.
Lifecycle Status Governance: Own product status and lifecycle governance so that introduction, change and discontinuation are controlled events rather than data edits.
Integration & Dependencies: Work with Material Master in the Procurement tower, with Production Planning for manufacturing handover and with Order Management for sellable product data. The D2C scope definition is to be confirmed with the programme.
Workstream Delivery Ownership: Estimate, sequence and deliver the module workstream against milestones, enforcing the quality gates for configuration, specifications, test evidence and defect containment.
Issue Diagnosis & Corrective Action: Lead resolution where product data gaps blocking channel launch or uncontrolled engineering changes reaching production places a milestone at risk: diagnose across configuration, data and integration layers, evaluate options against time and risk, and drive the agreed course to closure.
AI-Enabled Delivery & Joule Agent Specification: Build and maintain the reusable prompt and accelerator set for product data quality analysis, change impact assessment and validation rule generation, define the validation standard applied within the team, and evidence the effort saved. Use SAP Joule for Consultants as standard practice and curate its grounding content for this module. Identify Joule agent use cases, write the specification and supply the process context the AI and AIDLC tower builds, and you validate the result against the business outcome.
Team Leadership & Mentoring: Lead a small delivery team, allocate work to capability, review deliverables before release, and develop engineers in both module depth and delivery discipline.
Stakeholder Management: Lead requirement and design workshops with business process owners, present options, impacts and risks in business terms, and defend scope where change threatens the committed date.
Professional & Technical Skills:
Must-Have Skills
SAP PLM Core: Design and configuration ownership of product master, BOM management, document management system and classification in SAP PLM.
Engineering Change Management: Deep expertise in ECM including change requests, change orders, effectivity and release control.
Product Data Governance: Demonstrated experience defining product data completeness rules and enforcing them before downstream release.
Cross-Module Product Flow: Strong working knowledge of how product data flows into MM, PP and SD and what breaks downstream when it is incomplete.
Scope Clarification: Readiness to confirm the D2C scope definition on appointment and re-baseline responsibilities accordingly.
Hands-On Currency: Current and continuous hands-on configuration work on the primary skill, with no sustained break from build activity in the last 18 months.
AI-Enabled Delivery: Demonstrated use of AI to raise workstream throughput through prompt sets, accelerators or analysis routines adopted by others, governed by a defined validation standard.
SAP Joule for Consultants & Agent Specification: Working use of SAP Joule for Consultants, including grounding it in client-specific content, together with the capability to identify Joule agent use cases in the module and specify them for a dedicated AI capability to build. Where prior Joule exposure is absent, working proficiency is expected within 90 days of joining.
Evidence of AI Adoption: Demonstrable adoption of AI in delivery work, evidenced through AI assistant use, reusable accelerators, automation of recurring delivery tasks or codified playbooks adopted by others, together with the judgement to verify generated output before it is acted on.
Workstream Management: Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of an SAP module workstream: estimation, milestone commitment, defect management, integration test and cutover.
Team Leadership: Demonstrated leadership of a small delivery team and direct ownership of business stakeholder relationships, including contested scope discussions.
Good to Have Skills
SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
Interfaces to Teamcenter, Windchill or equivalent PLM systems
SAP Commerce Cloud product data integration
SAP Master Data Governance for Product
Additional Information:
A 15-year full-time education is required, as stated in the approved demand record.
Minimum 12 years of experience on the primary skill, as specified in the approved demand record.
Hands-on configuration work on the primary skill current at the point of application.
Workstream ownership across at least two full lifecycle SAP implementations or large rollouts.
Evidenced examples of AI-assisted delivery methods adopted by other members of the team.
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