SAP Technology Development Lead

Introduction to the job
You will lead, build, and support the SAP Application Development Competence and manage together with our Enterprise Service Providers the flex capacity and skill availability with our partners. As such, you have great responsibility and freedom in how you will approach and prioritize a wide range of activities to develop the SAP application development skills, methods, standards, and guidelines. You also work on bringing the demands into place for faster/smarter developments which are to be supported by one of the SAP Platform ART teams.

Here you collaborate closely with the Product Owners of the On Premise, BTP and Security & Authorizations team. You work closely with the ART teams and other IT ARTs in understanding the step ups they need. You facilitate in learning and knowledge sharing and build a highly engaged community of SAP application development professionals. You drive the roadmap of the SAP Application Development Competence and organize quarterly competence increments of which you align the outcomes with the Chief Product Owner of the SAP Platform ART.

Role and responsibilities

As SAP Technology Development Lead you'll maintain the roadmap to facilitate application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements. You'll plan major changes in close consultation with other IT competences / IT teams and collect business requirements using a variety of methods such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals. As SAP Technology Development Lead, you’ll:

• Be responsible for standards, guidelines and principles for the SAP technology stacks used
• Support onboarding of new developers to the competence, i.e., support in interviews, explain purpose, structure, guidelines, tools together. You do this together with the leads from the partners
• Organize competence events for roadmap planning and progress tracking of competence development
• Enable Clean Core coding concepts on major SAP solutions used in ASML
• Develop SAP Application Development Technology Roadmap with System Architect, Chief Product Owner and Product Owners of the SAP Platform ART and the SAP development community in ASML

Education and experience
To help us tackle the technical challenges we face, you’ll need experience working on High Tech products and with complex processes. As SAP Technology Development Lead, you’ll need:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in an IT / Application Development
• 10-15 years of professional (= post-degree) SAP Application Development skills with track record at large enterprise organizations
• Excellent overview of the SAP Application Development capabilities, professional SAP Application development and in-depth understanding of its value and challenges
• Willingness to step out of developing code and as Lead to move into coordination and competence development, paving the future SAP Application Development route for ASML
• Ability to deal with resistance and convince others of the value of Professional SAP Application Development
• Experience in leading development teams, managing capacity and capability.
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Skills
Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems. To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Fluency in English
• Highly motivated team player with excellent communication skills
• Ability to motivate and lead a team
• Flexible, open-minded, and able to work in a challenging, dynamic environment
• Ability to work under time pressure and rapidly changing conditions

Diversity and inclusion

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

About Us

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, we’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now.

We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.