SAP Functional SME
Databricks · Posted Oct 21
Data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI intelligence platform services
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About the role
The Databricks IT organization is a product-led engineering team building AI-powered internal platforms, with a finance vision centered on eliminating manual work through automation, insights, and end-to-end workflow orchestration. SAP S/4HANA will serve as the foundation for core finance processes including Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash. This role owns the functional blueprint for those processes—process discovery, AS-IS/TO-BE design, S/4HANA configuration—and defines requirements for an AI and agentic automation layer, working between Finance process owners and engineering pods.
What you will do
- Own Functional Design: Lead end-to-end process discovery and AS-IS/TO-BE design for major finance processes (Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash), define S/4HANA solution scope, and design to standard, clean-core capabilities wherever possible.
- Configure S/4HANA: Own functional configuration, business rules, and master-data strategy for your domain, and partner with developers on extensions, APIs, and orchestration where standard functionality falls short.
- Drive Process Intelligence: Use process mining and business process intelligence (leveraging SAP Process Intelligence and related tools) to identify root causes, quantify opportunity, and prioritize improvements; translate those findings into concrete S/4HANA requirements.
- Shape the AI & Agentic Layer: Define the requirements for AI-assisted and agentic process improvements—task automation, intelligent recommendations, anomaly detection, and generative assistants—and make clear judgments about where AI belongs in a controlled, auditable process, where human-in-the-loop is required, and where a deterministic rule is the better answer.
- Bridge Business and Engineering: Serve as the connective tissue between Finance process owners and the engineering pods, partnering with architects and developers to embed AI safely and to define the data flows between S/4HANA, process intelligence tools, SAP BTP, and Databricks AI.
- Run Workshops and Validate Value: Facilitate stakeholder workshops to validate business value, define acceptance criteria, and lead user acceptance testing for both functional and AI features.
- Measure Outcomes: Define KPIs and track ROI for process improvements—cycle time, touchless transaction rate, exception and manual-touch reduction, adoption—and build the business cases for prioritized automation and AI initiatives.
- Enable Adoption: Coach and upskill process owners and functional teams on process intelligence, best practices, and AI adoption, and drive readiness and change management for what you ship.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 6+ years of SAP functional consulting experience, with hands-on delivery across at least one full S/4HANA lifecycle and deep expertise in one or more finance domains—Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, or Order-to-Cash—plus working fluency in adjacent areas and in master-data governance.
- Process Intelligence: Demonstrated experience leading process discovery, process mapping, and process mining using SAP Process Intelligence or equivalent BPI tools, and translating mining outputs into solution requirements.
- Clean-Core Mindset: Strong bias toward standard, clean-core S/4HANA design, with sound judgment about when a requirement genuinely warrants an extension versus a change in process.
- AI & Agentic Automation: Practical experience applying Databricks AI and agentic capabilities to enterprise processes, with strong judgment on where AI can drive automation and decision support while maintaining appropriate governance, controls, auditability, and human oversight.
- Integration Awareness: Solid understanding of integration patterns (APIs/OData, IDoc, SAP Integration Suite / BTP) and the data requirements that feed process mining and AI models.
- Governance Rigor: Working knowledge of SAP authorizations, SoD, SOX and audit requirements, and the ability to design processes and automation that satisfy them.
- Stakeholder Leadership: Excellent workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and change-management skills, and the ability to present executive-level ROI and translate technical capability into measurable business value.
- Business-First Mindset: Pragmatic, outcome-driven approach to reducing process waste and risk, and comfort leading through ambiguity across complex business and IT landscapes.
Preferred qualifications
- SAP S/4HANA Associate or Professional certification for a relevant module, and SAP Activate methodology experience.
- Certification or training in SAP Process Intelligence, or experience with Celonis or other process mining vendors.
- Hands-on experience delivering at least one AI-assisted process improvement in production.
- Familiarity with the SAP AI and extension stack (BTP, AI Core, Joule) and a point of view on build-versus-adopt tradeoffs against a Databricks-native approach.
- Experience working alongside data teams to make ERP data usable for analytics and AI on modern data platforms (such as Databricks), and prior work in a high-growth technology company where ERP had to scale quickly.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Databricks
Databricks is a data and artificial intelligence company that provides a unified Data Intelligence Platform built on a lakehouse architecture. The platform combines data engineering, data warehousing, machine learning, and generative AI to help organizations manage and scale their data assets natively across major cloud providers. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks enables thousands of enterprises worldwide to power advanced analytics, business intelligence, and autonomous AI agents.
- Industry
- Data and AI Platform Software
- Company size
- 17300+ employees
- Founded
- 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $25.2B raised
- 2026-08-13Series L$5.0B
Leadership
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Chief Financial Officer
Co-founder and Chief Architect
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