Corning Incorporated
SAP Platform Engineer, SAP Platform Services
Corning Incorporated, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28245
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SAP Platform Engineer, SAP Platform Services
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Corning Incorporated
Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. Our global Information Technology (IT) function aligns IT and business strategy, maximizes IT investments, and streamlines end‑to‑end processes. We deliver applications, infrastructure, and project services worldwide to improve business competitiveness.
Role Purpose We are consolidating Corning’s ERP environments onto a shared SAP S/4HANA platform to increase capabilities, efficiency, agility, and reduce cost. This includes migrating from ECC 6 and PeopleSoft via greenfield and brownfield projects, maintaining stable ECC operations while building and scaling S/4HANA, and supporting multiple global implementations.
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate across SAP Platform Services, Solution Architecture, Basis, DBAs, Cloud/Infrastructure, Operations/Delivery, Data Office, and Service Line leaders.
Implement SAP technical best practices; monitor and optimize performance; automate deployments; maintain and update platform components; troubleshoot issues; stay current on industry trends.
Support a hybrid on‑prem/cloud landscape across S/4HANA and related systems (MDG, CFIN, SLT, BI, ECC, GTS, HCM, SRM, SCM, BW), add‑ons/bolt‑ons, BTP, OpenText, Vertex.
Partner with Security, Development, and PMO on outages, maintenance, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
Drive cross‑team architecture and design; plan, design, build, and support IT products; run design walkthroughs; serve as an escalation point; improve system design and delivery; contribute to the strategic roadmap; validate requirements against extensibility frameworks and SAP BTP.
Understand emerging cloud tech (AWS, SAP BTP, Cloud ALM, and SAP cloud services); guide estimation and planning; lead small workgroups and report KPIs.
Travel & Work Schedule Travel Remote Eligible: 15–20%.
Work Schedule: Monday–Friday, standard business hours. Some early/evening meetings and periodic weekend work for time zones and maintenance windows. Remote work acceptable.
Required Experience & Education
BS in IT, engineering, or business.
10+ years leading complex ERP/SAP development projects with on‑time delivery.
Deep SAP technical skills (ABAP, Fiori/UI5, integration, reporting) with hands‑on S/4HANA, including upgrades.
Experience with modern SAP technologies: BTP, HANA/CDS, Fiori, in‑app extensibility, SAP Analytics Cloud.
Strong decision‑making and collaboration; able to escalates appropriately.
Desired Skills
Critical thinking, problem solving, and bias for action.
Coaching/mentoring and continuous improvement mindset.
Strong cross‑organizational communication, facilitation, and teaming.
Ability to balance competing interests and solve problems in global, virtual environments.
Sound judgment, listening, creativity, negotiation, and willingness to challenge the status quo.
Other Information This position does not support immigration sponsorship.
Salary Range: $123,662.00 – $170,036.00 (depending on location, market, experience, and education).
Benefits
Company‑wide bonuses and long‑term incentives.
100% company‑paid pension benefit with fixed contributions; matching contributions to 401(k) up to 12%.
Health and wellbeing benefits: medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, life insurance, disability, disease management, paid time off, Employee Assistance Program.
Recognition program to celebrate successes and reward exceptional contributions.
We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will provide reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. To request accommodation, contact accommodations@corning.com.
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SAP Platform Engineer, SAP Platform Services
role at
Corning Incorporated
Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. Our global Information Technology (IT) function aligns IT and business strategy, maximizes IT investments, and streamlines end‑to‑end processes. We deliver applications, infrastructure, and project services worldwide to improve business competitiveness.
Role Purpose We are consolidating Corning’s ERP environments onto a shared SAP S/4HANA platform to increase capabilities, efficiency, agility, and reduce cost. This includes migrating from ECC 6 and PeopleSoft via greenfield and brownfield projects, maintaining stable ECC operations while building and scaling S/4HANA, and supporting multiple global implementations.
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate across SAP Platform Services, Solution Architecture, Basis, DBAs, Cloud/Infrastructure, Operations/Delivery, Data Office, and Service Line leaders.
Implement SAP technical best practices; monitor and optimize performance; automate deployments; maintain and update platform components; troubleshoot issues; stay current on industry trends.
Support a hybrid on‑prem/cloud landscape across S/4HANA and related systems (MDG, CFIN, SLT, BI, ECC, GTS, HCM, SRM, SCM, BW), add‑ons/bolt‑ons, BTP, OpenText, Vertex.
Partner with Security, Development, and PMO on outages, maintenance, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
Drive cross‑team architecture and design; plan, design, build, and support IT products; run design walkthroughs; serve as an escalation point; improve system design and delivery; contribute to the strategic roadmap; validate requirements against extensibility frameworks and SAP BTP.
Understand emerging cloud tech (AWS, SAP BTP, Cloud ALM, and SAP cloud services); guide estimation and planning; lead small workgroups and report KPIs.
Travel & Work Schedule Travel Remote Eligible: 15–20%.
Work Schedule: Monday–Friday, standard business hours. Some early/evening meetings and periodic weekend work for time zones and maintenance windows. Remote work acceptable.
Required Experience & Education
BS in IT, engineering, or business.
10+ years leading complex ERP/SAP development projects with on‑time delivery.
Deep SAP technical skills (ABAP, Fiori/UI5, integration, reporting) with hands‑on S/4HANA, including upgrades.
Experience with modern SAP technologies: BTP, HANA/CDS, Fiori, in‑app extensibility, SAP Analytics Cloud.
Strong decision‑making and collaboration; able to escalates appropriately.
Desired Skills
Critical thinking, problem solving, and bias for action.
Coaching/mentoring and continuous improvement mindset.
Strong cross‑organizational communication, facilitation, and teaming.
Ability to balance competing interests and solve problems in global, virtual environments.
Sound judgment, listening, creativity, negotiation, and willingness to challenge the status quo.
Other Information This position does not support immigration sponsorship.
Salary Range: $123,662.00 – $170,036.00 (depending on location, market, experience, and education).
Benefits
Company‑wide bonuses and long‑term incentives.
100% company‑paid pension benefit with fixed contributions; matching contributions to 401(k) up to 12%.
Health and wellbeing benefits: medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, life insurance, disability, disease management, paid time off, Employee Assistance Program.
Recognition program to celebrate successes and reward exceptional contributions.
We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will provide reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. To request accommodation, contact accommodations@corning.com.
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