Lead & develop the team: coach, hire, and grow a highperforming group of integration engineers; set goals, define ways of working, and foster a learning culture.
Own the integration roadmap: prioritize with business stakeholders; plan and deliver features across SAP BTP Integration Suite (e.g., Cloud Integration, API Management, Event Mesh) and adjacent platforms.
Deliver new businessdriven development: shape solution designs, ensure robust CI/CD, testing, and observability; manage lifecycle from idea to run.
AI as a business enabler: identify highvalue use cases, coordinate data & platform prerequisites, and lead pilots into production (governed, secure, and supportable).
Reliability & security: enforce integration SLAs, incident/problem management, cost control, and security/compliance standards.
Stakeholder & vendor management: align with Product Owners, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and external partners; manage contracts, SOWs, and budgets.
Ways of working: drive agile delivery, documentation standards, and reusable integration assets (patterns, templates, reference APIs).
Total of 6-8 experience in similar field!
Leadership: 3+ years leading engineers/consultants in integration or platform teams; proven coaching and performance management skills.
Integration expertise: 6–8+ years designing/delivering integrations; strong handson understanding of SAP BTP Integration Suite, APIled design, eventdriven patterns, and secure connectivity to SAP S/4HANA and satellite systems.
Engineering excellence: experience with Agile, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring/alerting, versioning, and change control for integrations.
AI enablement: practical exposure to shipping AI/ML use cases (e.g., classification, predictions, assistants) and orchestrating data, platform, and ML Ops with IT controls.
Collaboration: comfortable prioritizing tradeoffs with business stakeholders; clear communication in English (Dutch a plus).
Education: Bachelor’s/Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
Experience with SAP API Management, Event Mesh, Integration Advisor.
Familiarity with complementary cloud services (e.g., Azure for identity, data, or AI workloads).
Background in retail/consumer goods or supply chain integrations.
Shimano and its subsidiaries offer a pleasant, informal working environment with colleagues who work well together, and are proud to work for Shimano. Next to good working conditions, Shimano offers you the opportunity to work in a responsible and challenging position within a dynamic, international and ambitious environment. Together we want to win therefore we have a strong focus on team achievement.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy please get in touch with:
taniya.nayyar@shimano-eu.com