SAP ABAP & Basis Manager

The FinanceTech team is responsible for the development and maintenance of IT systems that support the area of corporate finance. We work with systems such as SAP, IBM Cognos, and Kyriba. We ensure that financial, controlling, and procurement processes run efficiently with the support of IT systems.

As a leader of SAP ABAP & Basis, you will be directing a team responsible for the development, configuration, and maintenance of SAP systems at Allegro and its group companies. This role requires strong technical skills in SAP ABAP, Basis, and Security, as well as managerial abilities to lead and support the team.

We are looking for people who have:

• Extensive knowledge of the SAP ECC system, and ideally SAP S4/HANA DB.
• Expertise in ABAP programming language, with a focus on SAP Basis & Security
• Ability to effectively delegate tasks, and manage the team's workload
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and a solutions-oriented mindset
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience in a fast-paced, ever-changing work environment
• Ability to motivate and mentor team members
• Analytical skills, with a focus on process optimization
• Collaborative and goal-oriented approach
• Commitment to ongoing learning and development
• Fluency in English (minimum B2 level)

Additionally, we offer:

• Well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)
• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)
• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job
• 16" or 14" MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon processor and, 36GB RAM or a corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs) and other gadgets that you may need 
• Working in a team you can always count on — we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise
• A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your team’s work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things
• Hackathons, team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (including training courses on work organization, means of communications, motivation to work and various technologies and subject-matter issues)
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In your daily work you will handle the following tasks:

• Leading and mentoring the SAP ABAP & Basis team to ensure high-quality outcomes.
• Delegating tasks and monitoring their completion.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translating them into technical specifications.
• Developing, testing, and implementing SAP solutions using ABAP programming.
• Providing support for SAP updates and patches to maintain system integrity. Managing SAP system configurations and regular system maintenance.
• Monitoring system performance and proactively resolving issues.
• Collaborating with other IT teams and vendors to ensure seamless operation of SAP system integrations.
• Ensuring compliance with SAP best practices and organizational policies. Participating in both internal and external licensing and security audits.

Why is it worth working with us

• The IT team is made up of over 1700 members who have shared their knowledge at multiple conferences, such as Warszawskie Dni Informatyki, Perspektywy Women In Tech Summit, and co-create a blog: allegro.tech
• Microservices – a few thousand microservices and 1.8m+ rps on our business data bus
• Big Data – several petabytes of data and Machine Learning used in production
• We practice Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, depending on the team
• Our internal ecosystem is based on self-service and widely used tools, such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub or GitHub Actions. This will allow you, from day one, to develop software using any language, architecture and scale, restricted only by your creativity and imagination. 
• To match the scale, we also focus on building entire Platforms of tools and technologies that accelerate and facilitate day-to-day development, and we ensure the best Developer Experience to our teams
• Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand (no need for management’s consent). You are responsible for what you create
• Our deployment environment combines private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)
• Over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on github
• We organize Allegro Tech Live event, a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and we make guest appearances at the invitation of such communities as Warsaw AI, JUG (Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław), WG .Net, Dare IT, Women in Tech Summit
• We focus on development as well. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (e.g. the annual Allegro Tech Meeting), our employees regularly participate in events both in Poland and abroad (Europe and USA), and each team has its own budget for training and study aids. If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge, we will always support you