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 SCM APO Advanced Planning & Optimization
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 12 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Summary:
As an SAP PP/DS Production Planning 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 Production Planning within the Manufacturing tower of the DRS SAP programme. The role exists to own production planning and detailed scheduling, where the plan must be feasible against actual capacity rather than balanced in theory.
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.
You lead a small delivery team and hold the working relationship with the business process owners for this module, while remaining hands-on in configuration.
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.
Planning Configuration: Configure PP/DS planning procedures, heuristics, planning strategies and the detailed scheduling board, and tune them to produce schedules the plant will follow.
Resource & Model Setup: Model resources, production data structures or production process models, setup matrices and campaign requirements to reflect how the plant actually runs.
Capacity & Sequencing: Configure capacity levelling, sequencing and setup optimisation, and resolve the conflicts between throughput, changeover cost and due date adherence.
Exception & Pegging Management: Set up alert monitoring, pegging and exception handling so that planners see material exceptions rather than undifferentiated alert volume.
Integration & Dependencies: Work with Planning Integration for the CIF data flow, with Plant Operations for execution feedback, with Inventory for stock and with Procurement for component supply.
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 plans that planners override manually, or scheduling runs that cannot complete inside the planning window 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 plan quality analysis, alert clustering, scheduling run performance analysis and scenario 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
PP/DS Configuration: Design and configuration ownership of PP/DS planning procedures, heuristics, strategies and the detailed scheduling board, in APO or embedded in S/4HANA.
Resource & PDS/PPM Modelling: Deep expertise in resource modelling, PDS or PPM generation, setup matrices and campaign planning.
Capacity Planning: Strong expertise in finite capacity planning, levelling and sequence optimisation.
Planning Data Integrity: Strong working knowledge of how master and transactional data quality determines whether the plan is usable.
Planner Partnership: Demonstrated capability to work with production planners and tune the solution until it is adopted rather than overridden.
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
Embedded PP/DS in SAP S/4HANA and the migration path from APO
SAP IBP for response and supply
SAP Digital Manufacturing integration
Optimiser profile configuration and tuning
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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