Corning Incorporated
SAP Platform Engineer, SAP Platform Services
Corning Incorporated, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28245
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The company built on breakthroughs. Join us. Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Requisition Number: 71393
Role Purpose Corning’s global IT team 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.
Scope 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.
Role Seeking an experienced engineer to build and evolve our shared SAP platform - tools, services, processes, and data - spanning infrastructure, applications, integrations, and strategic objectives.
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/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 / Remote Eligibility 15–20% travel. Remote work acceptable.
Work Schedule Monday–Friday, standard business hours. Some early/evening meetings and periodic weekend work for time zones and maintenance windows.
Experiences/Education – Required
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 escalate appropriately.
Experiences/Education – Desired
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.
This position does not support immigration sponsorship.
The range for this position is $123,662.00 - $170,036.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.
Benefits
Company‑wide bonuses and long‑term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well.
Fully company‑paid pension benefit; matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, with total contributions reaching 7%–12% of your pay.
Health and wellness benefits: medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company‑paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make 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 ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request an accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@corning.com.
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The company built on breakthroughs. Join us. Corning is one of the world’s leading innovators in glass, ceramic, and materials science. From the depths of the ocean to the farthest reaches of space, our technologies push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Requisition Number: 71393
Role Purpose Corning’s global IT team 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.
Scope 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.
Role Seeking an experienced engineer to build and evolve our shared SAP platform - tools, services, processes, and data - spanning infrastructure, applications, integrations, and strategic objectives.
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/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 / Remote Eligibility 15–20% travel. Remote work acceptable.
Work Schedule Monday–Friday, standard business hours. Some early/evening meetings and periodic weekend work for time zones and maintenance windows.
Experiences/Education – Required
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 escalate appropriately.
Experiences/Education – Desired
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.
This position does not support immigration sponsorship.
The range for this position is $123,662.00 - $170,036.00 assuming full time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.
Benefits
Company‑wide bonuses and long‑term incentives align with key business results and ensure you are rewarded when the company performs well.
Fully company‑paid pension benefit; matching contributions to your 401(k) savings plan, with total contributions reaching 7%–12% of your pay.
Health and wellness benefits: medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, family building support, fitness, company‑paid life insurance, disability, disease management programs, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Recognition program to celebrate successes and reward colleagues who make 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 ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request an accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@corning.com.
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