Own the end-to-end lifecycle of batch jobs in Redwood RunMyJobs: design, configuration, deployment, monitoring, optimization, and retirement.
Define and enforce scheduling standards, naming conventions, and governance across SAP (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager) and non-SAP platforms (databases, file transfers, custom applications).
Design and maintain complex workflows and job chains: event-driven scheduling, dynamic dependencies, parameterized templates, conditional logic, and cross-system orchestration.
Explore and prototype the use of AI and modern automation techniques to enhance scheduling — for example, intelligent failure analysis, automated remediation workflows, or AI-assisted job design and documentation.
Act as L3 escalation point for complex scheduling incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and define preventive measures.
Collaborate with SAP Basis, Application Owners, and Business stakeholders on landscape changes, release cycles, and business calendars (month-end, year-end, fiscal close).
Mentor junior engineers, review configurations, and ensure knowledge transfer across the team.
Support audit, compliance, and security requirements (SOX, segregation of duties, role-based access in RMJ).

5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise batch scheduling tools, including with Redwood RunMyJobs (or equivalent: SAP CPS by Redwood, Control-M, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, AutoSys).
Strong knowledge of SAP batch architecture: SM36/SM37, background work processes, RFC connections, event-driven jobs, BW process chains, Solution Manager job documentation.
Experience scheduling non-SAP workloads: database jobs (Oracle, SQL Server, HANA), file-based triggers, secure file transfer (SFTP/MFT), custom application workflows.
Solid automation and scripting skills: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Java, applied to building, maintaining, and optimizing scheduling workflows.
Understanding of workflow design principles: dependencies, error handling, retries, parameterization, reusability.
Strong troubleshooting skills, log analysis, and performance tuning of batch environments.
Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus.

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Senior Batch Scheduling Engineer

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