Columbia Sportswear Company · 1 week ago
SAP S/4HANA Lead – Fashion & Vertical Business
Aurora, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$126K/yr - $210K/yr
8+ years expColumbia Sportswear Company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of their SAP S/4HANA platform tailored for fashion and vertical business. The role involves defining architecture, managing integrations, and ensuring master data integrity while guiding internal teams and external partners.
ApparelInnovation ManagementManufacturingOutdoorsRetailSporting GoodsSports
Responsibilities
Responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application
Maintains thoughtful application design that promotes reuse, portability, and ease of code maintenance
Builds subject matter expertise in the business area that the platform or application supports
Leads with high autonomy the execution and utilization of reference implementations, best practices, frameworks and standards, and architectural and design decisions within a squad
Notifies technical stakeholders of technical or functional changes
Contributes to the team's backlog to capture work that promotes the team's mission and advances the team's technical foundation
Partners with teammates to refine the product backlog
Partners with peer Engineers and the Product Owner to lead the team in breaking down larger bodies of work (epics) into smaller, well-understood items (stories) that can be accomplished in a single iteration
Ensures stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria
Communicates with key partners and dependent squads to understand scope of planned work
Partners with Product Managers in the domain to inform prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap
Generates stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, and simplification
Participates in team's agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives
Helps drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming
Actively seeks ways to drive continuous improvement within team
Leads team through resolution of blockers, and implementation of new practices identified as part of team's continuous improvement goals
Understands the team's application architecture and how it fits into the team's broader area as well as to the enterprise via key dependencies
Partners with Solution Architects to understand, help define, and adopt enterprise patterns and technology goals
Implements reference architectures with tool selection and implementation to deliver cost effective solutions that drive the right business value
Helps maintain architecture documentation for relevant capabilities and systems
Mentors individuals in the squad and peers on partner squads on technical delivery
Works to build technical skills in teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn
Participates in communities of practice on technical topics and encourages team members to join where technical interests or development opportunities align
Partners with established vendors on implementations, modernization, capability improvements, and framework updates
Influences partners' roadmaps
Performs technical evaluations and makes recommendations around new incoming solutions
Establishes and manages quality standards, decisions, and implementations
Leverages automation where possible to create efficiency and reliability in delivery of software
Ensures application, performance, uptime, and scale
Defines and maintains high standards of code quality
Participates in peer code reviews to ensure quality, consistency, and knowledge transfer is part of regular delivery
Troubleshoots and fixes bugs and security risks
Identifies bottlenecks, patterns, and potential solutions related to incoming bugs and defects to improve software efficiency
Partners with peer engineers on software development lifecycle improvements
Creates and maintains support playbooks
Leverages best practices, technologies, and instrumentation to lead the team in regular monitoring and observation of health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support and inform roadmap/backlog improvements
Partners with the squad and peers across squads to diagnose performance issues found in monitoring
Identifies and implements new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers and stakeholders
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience
Typically requires 8+ years of professional experience and mastery of relevant technical or business skills required to accomplish the job
5+ years of designing Big Data systems and processes in a Cloud environment
Expert in SQL and query optimization techniques
5+ years' experience with programming languages
3+ years of Apache Spark with Python Experience in design and development of an Enterprise CI/CD process
Expert in all technologies in the data platform (Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and SQLDB)
Coding proficiency in a modern programming or scripting language Azure stack experience preferred (Logic and Function apps)
Knowledge of database systems (SQL)
Experience in creating automation of repeatable tasks
Strong understanding of data design concepts
Demonstrated knowledge of SDLC and change management
Demonstrated ability to create logical flow diagrams
Excellent project and time management skills
Ability to work and collaborate with cross functional teams, and manage partner expectations
Ability to influence without direct authority
Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
Ability to evaluate processes and drive improvement
Ability to foster new ideas and concepts and make decisions surrounding complex issues
Functional understanding of data architecture concepts
Intermediate understanding of privacy laws and regulations
Travel: None
Work Schedule: Standard Hours
Lead the design, build, and implementation of prAna's SAP S/4HANA platform tailored for fashion and vertical business—built entirely from the ground up
Own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA implementation: architecting solutions, defining master data models (article, fashion master), and driving MRP and segmentation logic
Design and configure SAP S/4HANA for Fashion/Vertical Business capabilities including seasonality management, variant configuration, aATP, and supply assignment (ARun)
Lead integrations with external systems (e.g., eCommerce, CRM, third-party logistics), enabling multichannel order management, ATP, and contract management flows
Manage critical SAP business runs: order allocation, MRP for fashion, site master setup, and SAP FMS migration/transformation
Serve as the technical and functional lead—guiding internal teams and external partners while ensuring master data integrity, compliance, and scalability
A seasoned SAP S/4HANA expert in fashion or vertical industry implementations
A strong solution architect who bridges business requirements and SAP capabilities, including supply chain, merchandising, and order management
A master of master data design—article master, variant configuration, site master, segmentation
An integration-savvy leader fluent with multichannel commerce setups, ATP/aATP, and SAP FMS migration
A confident individual contributor who leads cross-functional teams across IT, supply chain, merchandising, and external integrators
8+ years of SAP experience, with at least 4 years focused on S/4HANA—designing/configuring Fashion & Vertical Business processes
Deep mastery of article/fashion master data, segmentation/variant config, allocation runs, fashion MRP, and aATP
Proven record leading SAP integrations—order management, retail site, contract management, fulfillment
Experience managing data migrations and transformations from legacy SAP solutions (e.g., FMS) to S/4HANA
Preferred
Experience with SAP FMS (Fashion Management System) migration to S/4HANA
Knowledge of SAP retail site master, contract management, and multichannel commerce ecosystems
Exposure to SAP integration technologies (e.g., SAP PO/PI, middleware) and real-time interfaces for omnichannel readiness
Benefits
Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.
Company
Columbia Sportswear Company
Based in Portland, Oregon, Columbia Sportswear Company (NASDAQ: COLM) is a global outdoor brand that crafts active lifestyle gear fortified with industry-leading technologies and tested in our backyard.
5001-10000 employees
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