Senior Engineering Manager - ERP

Xplore Inc; Markham; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Xplore Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a technical team during a company-wide ERP transformation.

You will own the technical vision for migrating core financial and operational capabilities to a modern ERP platform, coordinating data migration, integration, and cutover across teams. You will establish engineering practices (CI/CD, automated testing, observability), practice servant leadership, and collaborate with product and business leaders to align roadmaps and risk

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years leading teams.
• Experience delivering enterprise systems and integrations in complex environments.
• Broad understanding of modern ERP platforms and legacy-to-modern transformations.
• Strong background in modern app development, APIs/integration, and cloud fundamentals (Azure).

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple software teams across Agile programs to deliver business value.
• Drive AI adoption and modernization across ERP landscape.
• Own the technical roadmap for ERP transformation and data cutover.
• Establish and evolve CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure-by-design practices.
• Provide servant leadership to hiring, mentoring, and career development.
• Collaborate with product owners and business partners on roadmaps and risk management.
• Ensure non-functional requirements like performance, security, and scalability are met.

Skills

Leadership

Enterprise systems

ERP platforms

APIs & cloud

Performance & security

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

ABAP/RAP

REST/GraphQL/gRPC

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Activate

Migration Cockpit

Job description

Xplore Inc. is Canada’s fibre, 5G and satellite broadband company for rural living. Xplore is committed to the relentless pursuit of an improved broadband experience for all Canadians. Xplore is building a world-class fibre optic and 5G wireless network to enable innovative broadband services for better every day rural living, for today and future generations.

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow a technical team as we embark on a company-wide ERP transformation. This is your opportunity to use cutting edge tools to modernize the systems that run our business - driving a technical vision while leading teams to transform our ERP platform and deliver modern ERP capabilities, including Financial Management, Procurement & Source-to-Pay, Inventory & Asset Management and Supply Chain Management, alongside our broader Telecom digital and operational domains.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead multiple software developers across cross-functional Agile teams, ensuring consistent delivery of business value, predictable execution, and strong engineering discipline.
• Drive AI adoption, modernization of applications, and integrations across our ERP landscape, aligning delivery with engineering and enterprise architecture direction.
• Own the technical roadmap for our ERP transformation, including migrating core financial and operational capabilities to a modern ERP platform, and coordinating data migration, integration, and cutover across teams .
• Establish and evolve engineering practices for including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, secure-by-design, and operational readiness.
• Practice servant leadership by supporting developers and technical leads through hiring, performance development, career paths, mentoring, and ensuring a culture of accountability, learning, and inclusion.
• Collaborate with product owners, business leaders and partners on roadmap execution, capacity planning, dependency management, and risk/issue escalation across teams and vendors/partners.
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements including performance, security, resiliency, scalability, data integrity, and compliance while adopting modern software development principles, frameworks and platforms

The ideal candidate will possess:

• 8+ years in software engineering roles with 3+ years leading teams (people leadership and delivery accountability) in a product-centric or Agile delivery environment.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise systems and integrations in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Broad understanding of modern ERP platforms, with direct involvement in a legacy-to-modern ERP transformation.
• Experience supporting or delivering core ERP functional domains such as project finance tracking, general ledger, supply chain, and budgeting/planning.
• Strong technical background with modern application development, APIs/integration patterns, and cloud fundamentals (preferably Azure).
• Demonstrated experience building software that accounts for performance, observability and security
• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery outcomes (quality, cycle time, reliability) using metrics, continuous improvement, and pragmatic engineering practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate between business outcomes and technical execution.

Technical Qualifications

• 8+ years working with ABAP/RAP, or other comparable programming languages used in enterprise and ERP application development
• Working experience with APIs using technologies like REST, GraphQL, gRPC, OData, and/or SOAP XML/iDocs for ERP integration
• Hands‑on or delivery experience with SAP S/4HANA or a comparable modern ERP platform (e.g., Oracle Cloud ERP, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics 365), including extensibility via SAP BTP, Fiori/UI5, and ABAP/RAP)
• Demonstrated experience with ERP migration and modernization tooling (e.g., SAP Activate methodology, Migration Cockpit, data reconciliation, and cutover planning) for transformations from legacy platforms
• Working knowledge of core ERP functional domains: project systems/project finance tracking, general ledger and financial accounting (FI/CO), supply chain and materials management, and budgeting/planning
• AI Tooling: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code and/or other equivalent technologies
• Strong understanding of Cloud Native principles and frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Telecom OSS/BSS domains and operational lifecycle processes.
• Experience leading modernization initiatives (legacy decomposition, platform migration, integration modernization, domain/platform realignment).
• SAP certification(s) (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP Activate) or equivalent modern ERP platform credential, and/or experience with ERP reporting and analytics tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud or SAP BW/4HANA.
• Exposure to SRE/production operations practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident management, runbooks, post-incident reviews, operational automation).
• Experience working with distributed teams and vendors/partners

As a condition of employment and in order to comply with industry related data security standards, this position is subject to the successful completion of a Criminal Background Check. Details will be supplied to applicants as they move through the selection process.

Xplore is committed to creating an accessible environment and will accommodate disabilities during the selection process. Please let your recruiter know during the selection process of any accommodation needs.