Lead Engineer, IT - SAP Data Services

We are Builders FirstSource, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You’ll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.

PURPOSE

This role is for a Technical Lead with ownership over the SAP Data Migration aspects of the BFS Data Engineering Team. The ideal candidate will have experience leading the technical aspects of the Data Migration team including providing oversight and ownership over the technical architecture and end to end development process, implementing data migration solutions using SAP Data Services and is responsible for the timely delivery of high-quality, reliable and cost-effective migration solutions from a diverse set of ERP sources into SAP S/4 Hana among other targets including Azure Cloud. This includes defining design guidelines using best practices related to SAP Data Services. The engineer will also be responsible for coding/building pipelines, peer reviews, and general oversight, the complexity of which is driven by business need.  As the maturity of the environment increases, this role will be responsible for helping to develop our cloud data platform.  As such the role will require cloud architecture and data engineering expertise.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads complex projects from end to end.
• Drives analyses from technical design through completion; guides others on working in a dev ops structure/ environment.
• Acts as point of escalation/ deep SME resource to manage admin failure and messaging events.
• Develops complex data extracts, applications, and ad-hoc queries as requested by internal and external customers using ETL toolsets.
• Conducts complex ETL processes and troubleshooting.
• Defines requirements for ETL solutions, ensure data quality and match-back to core systems transaction results.
• Identifies and documents process for building data models; ensures data is clean and usable through validation, testing and troubleshooting.
• Leads data architecture and pipeline development to store and process high-volume data sets.
• Identifies immediate and larger scope problems through thorough code reviews.
• Tests and reviews code to optimize scale, velocity, and reliability of deliverables.
• Collaborates with Data Scientists to ensure architectural and project specification needs are being met.
• Designs solid, robust, and extensible data warehouse system, and prepares data to support key business flows.
• Defines standardization and reuse opportunities, abstractions and patterns across classes and components to streamline design and development of data integration solutions.
• Determines data mapping tools and techniques, reviews, and highlights process improvement opportunities.
• Devises new methods and procedures for collecting data; performs complex data analyses.
• Designs and creates reporting and visualization for communicating data insights, underlying principle, and linkage of data to business outcomes; presents findings to senior stakeholders.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 7+ years relevant work experience.
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience leading ETL having worked on multiple SAP data migration projects from end to end.  Demonstrated high involvement with SAP data object migration processes / tools and complex data extractions, transformations, and data loading techniques.
• Experience in SAP Data Migration Toolset: SAP Data Services (BODS) including the setup and maintenance of the environment (Job Servers, Client, VMs, etc), iDoc, BAPI, LSMW, RFC, DMC including the creation and execution of the programs to perform data extraction, transformation and loading of legacy data.
• Manages and resolves data conversion issues during loading, upon consulting with functional team/client
• Demonstrated experience in performance tuning pipelines and applications related to the Data Migration process, providing quick resolution to such issues
• Demonstrated experience in IT security practices in data at rest and in motion
• Maintain Technical and Functional Documentation / Standards including Field Mapping, Validations, Process Flows, Relevancy Rules, etc.
• Experience in Azure data engineering toolset: Databricks, Microsoft SQL Databases (SQLMI), Azure DevOps, etc.
• Experience in basic data warehousing and modeling practices and techniques
• Operating System Technologies: Windows, Linux/Unix including VMs
• Database Technologies: Microsoft SQL, S/4 Hana, Sybase, ODBC/JDBC connection management
• Programming Languages: SQL, Python

COMPETENCIES

1. • Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
   • Technical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
   • Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives.
   • Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations.
   • Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.
   • Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments of internal and external customers and needs of the market.
   • Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggests improvements to current ways of working.

BFS COMPETENCIES

• Business and Financial Acumen
• Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis
• Teaches business and financial acumen to others.
• Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money.
• Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.
• Understands customer sales and engagement.
• Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise.
• Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.
• Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.
• Results Driven
• Holds self and others accountable.
• Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver.
• Manages competing priorities effectively.
• Demonstrates appropriate urgency.
• Drives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values.
• Embraces and follows best practices.
• Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.
• Strategic Thinking and Decision Making
• Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner.
• Balances short-and-long term priorities
• Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking.
• Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.
• Servant Leadership
• Demonstrates humility by putting others first.
• Builds trust-based relationships.
• Leads by example with kindness and respect.
• Collaborates well across all areas of the business.
• Advocates for others
• Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.
• Demonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same.
• Emotional Intelligence
• Demonstrates situational awareness – knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations.
• Demonstrates self-awareness – understands strengths and weaknesses.
• Demonstrates empathy – puts themselves in other’s shoes.
• Assumes positive intent.
• Develops and Leads Others
• Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations.
• Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations.
• Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment.
• Empowers, motivates, and inspires others.
• Coaches and mentor others for their development.
• Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes.
• Growth Mindset
• Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes.
• Perseveres and champions growth, even in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or possible failure.
• Thinks like an owner with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity.
• Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth.
• Sees possibilities over problems – actively seeks solutions.
• Innovation
• Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things.
• Continuously seeks to improve and simplify pain points in the business.
• Anticipates, embraces, and leads change.
• Develops and executes breakthrough strategies.
• Integrity
• Does the right thing even under challenging circumstances?
• Communicates with honesty.
• Consistently treats others fairly and equitably.
• Demonstrates reliability and does what they say they will do.
• Conducts tough conversations and delivers difficult messages with kindness and respect.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.
• Occasional travel may be required.

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This position was posted on June 4, 2026 and we anticipate it will be open for a minimum of five days, though it may be open for a longer period. We encourage your prompt application.

Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You’ll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore – all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS.

In addition to the base wage listed, this position is also eligible to earn an annual bonus subject to changes in plan design and documents and in accordance with applicable law. Eligibility and the amount of the bonus varies based on overall company success, thresholds met and other terms and conditions of the Company’s active bonus policy for the respective year.

At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. Our goal is simple — provide great plans that help you and your family to live happier, healthier and more secure lives. This role is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance plans, 401(k) retirement savings plan, PTO (including paid sick time), and 8 paid holidays per year (for salaried and hourly team members). Details about Builders FirstSource’s benefits offerings are available here www.bldrbenefits.com.

Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.

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