Senior Engineer - SAP Code Management & Release Governance

About the role

Stryker is hiring a Senior Engineer in EDT (Engineering Delivery Team) focused on commercial ERP, code management and release governance. The role leads SAP code management, transport governance and promotion across development, testing, staging and production environments, with a hybrid work arrangement.

Key responsibilities

• Lead SAP code management, transport governance and promotion across development, testing, staging and production environments.
• Ensure end-to-end traceability of SAP development objects by aligning requirements, technical designs, code changes, testing evidence, approvals and production deployments.
• Conduct and coordinate technical reviews, code quality assessments and compliance validations to strengthen security, performance and maintainability.
• Govern release readiness by managing transport inventories, dependency mapping, deployment plans, validation criteria and rollback procedures.
• Partner with development, QA, infrastructure and support teams to execute releases, cutovers, deployments and hypercare activities.
• Maintain technical debt registers and recommend strategies for code simplification and standardisation aligned with SAP best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation of transport controls, quality checks, release reporting and deployment processes.
• Provide technical governance and guidance to internal teams and system integrators, and deliver reporting on code quality, transport status, release readiness, technical debt, compliance and operational risks.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related technical field; Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of professional experience, including a proven track record delivering large-scale global ERP transformation programmes.
• 5+ years of experience in SAP software engineering, technical delivery, transport management, release management, DevOps or code governance.
• Experience implementing development lifecycle controls, code reviews, technical quality assessments and defect remediation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and work across global, matrixed organisations.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to lead initiatives and write executive-ready documentation.
• Travel of about 10%.

Required skills

• Hands-on SAP S/4HANA and ABAP development concepts, technical objects, integrations, transports and release processes.
• Working knowledge of source control, branching strategies, version management, CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates and deployment best practices.
• Proficiency with SAP and enterprise delivery tools such as CTS+, ChaRM, SAP Solution Manager, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Jira and ServiceNow.
• Deep understanding of SAP master data, enterprise integrations, middleware technologies and cross-platform data architectures.