SAP Platform Engineer, SAP Platform Services

Requisition Number: 71392

 

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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.  ​  

 

How do we do this? With our people. They break through limitations and expectations – not once in a career, but every day. They help move our company, and the world, forward. ​  

 

​At Corning, there are endless possibilities for making an impact. You can help connect the unconnected, drive the future of automobiles, transform at-home entertainment, and ensure the delivery of lifesaving medicines. And so much more.​   

 

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The global Information Technology (IT) Function is leading efforts to align IT and Business Strategy, leverage IT investments, and optimize end to end business processes and associated information integration technologies.  Through these efforts, IT helps to improve the competitive position of Corning's businesses through IT enabled processes.  IT also delivers Information Technology applications, infrastructure, and project services in a cost efficient manner to Corning worldwide.

Role Purpose

Overview: 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 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.

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.