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Professional Engineer roles in civil, mechanical, electrical, and structural disciplines qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification. Employers file on your behalf, certifying the role meets DOL prevailing wage standards. Licensed PE credentials and a relevant bachelor's or master's degree are the foundation of a strong sponsorship case.
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Get Access To All JobsSAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional Lead
Chicago, IL – Remote Job (Travel on needed basis)
12+ months contract
Role Overview
SAP Cloud ERP professional services functional lead Own the functional design, configuration, stabilization, and optimization of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services processes for a project-based enterprise. Focus on customer project lifecycle, work packages, staffing-relevant project structures, time/cost capture integration, project billing, profitability, and operational controls while partnering closely with Finance and adjacent workforce/resource systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the post-go-live functional roadmap and configuration backlog for SAP Professional Services/customer project capabilities.
- Configure and support customer project structures, project stages, work packages, roles, planned effort/cost/revenue inputs, and project lifecycle controls within deployed scope.
- Own functional design for project billing preparation, billing plans, billing elements, project billing requests, and handoffs to billing/accounting.
- Support project financial planning, actual cost/revenue visibility, project margin analysis, and integration with Finance and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
- Define and maintain project master-data standards, templates, derivation rules, validation controls, and governance.
- Partner with resource-management and time systems to ensure project, role, assignment, budget, and time data are fit for downstream processing.
- Analyze production defects involving customer projects, project billing, time/cost postings, master data, workflow, or integration dependencies.
- Lead functional acceptance criteria, test scenarios, regression packs, and business validation for Professional Services changes.
- Maintain end-to-end process documentation from project setup through time/cost capture, billing, revenue recognition, and closure.
- Drive fit-to-standard decisions and minimize unnecessary custom extensions around project operations.
- Support business teams during billing cycles, project setup peaks, period-end activities, and critical incidents.
- Review SAP release changes affecting Professional Services and determine business impact, test scope, and adoption opportunities.
- Coordinate functional dependencies with Finance, Billing, HR/time, resource management, CRM/engagement systems, data, and integration teams.
- Lead backlog refinement and prioritize changes based on operational risk, business value, and go-live stabilization needs.
- Provide quality oversight for SI-delivered configuration, test evidence, and production fixes.
SAP / Product-Specific Responsibilities
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services / customer project management capabilities.
- Plan Customer Projects and project lifecycle concepts, work packages, billing elements, billing plans, and project billing.
- Manage Project Billing and related billing request/document handoffs.
- Integration with Event-Based Revenue Recognition, General Ledger/Controlling, time recording, expenses, and enterprise resource-management solutions.
- SAP Fiori role-based applications, configuration lifecycle, and Public Cloud release adoption.
Operational Responsibilities
- Own stabilization of customer-project and project-billing processes, with clear severity and SLA-based triage.
- Monitor recurring errors in project setup, time/cost postings, billing preparation, project closure, and integrated master data.
- Maintain business-ready operating procedures, support playbooks, known-error records, and release regression scenarios.
- Drive continuous improvement in project setup cycle time, billing readiness, data quality, and user adoption.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Professional Services operations, Project/Engagement Management, Finance/Controllership, Billing, Revenue Accounting, HR/time, resource management, Data, Integration, Security, QA/Release, and implementation partners.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline. 8+ years of SAP project systems/professional-services functional experience, including S/4HANA-era delivery. Hands-on configuration experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer project processes strongly preferred. Strong understanding of project-based services economics, time/cost capture, billing, margin, and revenue-recognition dependencies. Experience supporting production operations after ERP go-live.
Required Technical / Functional Skills
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer projects.
- Project lifecycle, work packages, project billing, billing plans, project master data, and project financial controls.
- Integration with Finance/Controlling and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
- Time/expense and resource-management integration concepts.
- Fiori applications, testing, defect triage, configuration governance, and release impact assessment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in consulting, accounting, engineering, legal, or other project-based professional-services firms.
- Experience integrating SAP with workforce/resource planning or time systems such as Deltek Replicon and Dayshape.
- Current SAP credential aligned to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services or related implementation learning is preferred.
SAP Cloud ERP Professional Services Functional Lead
Chicago, IL – Remote Job (Travel on needed basis)
12+ months contract
Role Overview
SAP Cloud ERP professional services functional lead Own the functional design, configuration, stabilization, and optimization of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services processes for a project-based enterprise. Focus on customer project lifecycle, work packages, staffing-relevant project structures, time/cost capture integration, project billing, profitability, and operational controls while partnering closely with Finance and adjacent workforce/resource systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the post-go-live functional roadmap and configuration backlog for SAP Professional Services/customer project capabilities.
- Configure and support customer project structures, project stages, work packages, roles, planned effort/cost/revenue inputs, and project lifecycle controls within deployed scope.
- Own functional design for project billing preparation, billing plans, billing elements, project billing requests, and handoffs to billing/accounting.
- Support project financial planning, actual cost/revenue visibility, project margin analysis, and integration with Finance and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
- Define and maintain project master-data standards, templates, derivation rules, validation controls, and governance.
- Partner with resource-management and time systems to ensure project, role, assignment, budget, and time data are fit for downstream processing.
- Analyze production defects involving customer projects, project billing, time/cost postings, master data, workflow, or integration dependencies.
- Lead functional acceptance criteria, test scenarios, regression packs, and business validation for Professional Services changes.
- Maintain end-to-end process documentation from project setup through time/cost capture, billing, revenue recognition, and closure.
- Drive fit-to-standard decisions and minimize unnecessary custom extensions around project operations.
- Support business teams during billing cycles, project setup peaks, period-end activities, and critical incidents.
- Review SAP release changes affecting Professional Services and determine business impact, test scope, and adoption opportunities.
- Coordinate functional dependencies with Finance, Billing, HR/time, resource management, CRM/engagement systems, data, and integration teams.
- Lead backlog refinement and prioritize changes based on operational risk, business value, and go-live stabilization needs.
- Provide quality oversight for SI-delivered configuration, test evidence, and production fixes.
SAP / Product-Specific Responsibilities
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services / customer project management capabilities.
- Plan Customer Projects and project lifecycle concepts, work packages, billing elements, billing plans, and project billing.
- Manage Project Billing and related billing request/document handoffs.
- Integration with Event-Based Revenue Recognition, General Ledger/Controlling, time recording, expenses, and enterprise resource-management solutions.
- SAP Fiori role-based applications, configuration lifecycle, and Public Cloud release adoption.
Operational Responsibilities
- Own stabilization of customer-project and project-billing processes, with clear severity and SLA-based triage.
- Monitor recurring errors in project setup, time/cost postings, billing preparation, project closure, and integrated master data.
- Maintain business-ready operating procedures, support playbooks, known-error records, and release regression scenarios.
- Drive continuous improvement in project setup cycle time, billing readiness, data quality, and user adoption.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Professional Services operations, Project/Engagement Management, Finance/Controllership, Billing, Revenue Accounting, HR/time, resource management, Data, Integration, Security, QA/Release, and implementation partners.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline. 8+ years of SAP project systems/professional-services functional experience, including S/4HANA-era delivery. Hands-on configuration experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer project processes strongly preferred. Strong understanding of project-based services economics, time/cost capture, billing, margin, and revenue-recognition dependencies. Experience supporting production operations after ERP go-live.
Required Technical / Functional Skills
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services/customer projects.
- Project lifecycle, work packages, project billing, billing plans, project master data, and project financial controls.
- Integration with Finance/Controlling and Event-Based Revenue Recognition.
- Time/expense and resource-management integration concepts.
- Fiori applications, testing, defect triage, configuration governance, and release impact assessment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in consulting, accounting, engineering, legal, or other project-based professional-services firms.
- Experience integrating SAP with workforce/resource planning or time systems such as Deltek Replicon and Dayshape.
- Current SAP credential aligned to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Professional Services or related implementation learning is preferred.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Professional Engineer
Get your PE license recognized early
State PE licensure is a hiring requirement for most civil, structural, and environmental roles. Confirm your foreign engineering credentials qualify for NCEES credential evaluation before applying, since PERM petitions often list licensure as a minimum requirement for the position.
Target employers with active PERM filings
Engineering firms that have filed PERM applications before are far more likely to sponsor again. Use Migrate Mate to filter Professional Engineer roles by green card sponsorship history so you're not starting the conversation from scratch.
Understand how EB-3 differs from H-1B
Unlike H-1B visa, EB-3 green card sponsorship has no lottery and leads to permanent residency. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification, I-140, and adjustment of status typically span two to four years for most nationalities.
Align your resume to the PERM job description
Your qualifications must match the minimum requirements stated in the employer's PERM application exactly. Listing experience that exceeds the stated requirements can trigger USCIS scrutiny, so coordinate with your employer's immigration counsel before finalizing the job description.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating your offer
DOL sets the prevailing wage floor for your specific PE role and location using the OFLC Wage Search tool. Your offered salary must meet or exceed this level for the PERM application to be certified, so check it before you accept any offer.
Ask about concurrent filing eligibility at the offer stage
If your priority date becomes current, you may be able to file I-140 and I-485 simultaneously, cutting months off your wait. Confirm whether your employer's legal team handles concurrent filing before signing, since not all firms manage this proactively.
Green Card Professional Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Professional Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most PE roles qualify for EB-3 as skilled worker positions requiring a bachelor's degree in engineering. Roles requiring an advanced degree or involving research leadership can qualify for EB-2. The determining factor is the minimum educational and experience requirements the employer sets in the PERM application, not simply your individual credentials.
How does the PERM green card process differ from H-1B sponsorship for engineers?
H-1B is a temporary work visa subject to an annual lottery with a six-year cap. PERM-based EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no lottery. The tradeoff is time: PERM requires DOL labor market testing before the I-140 petition, adding roughly six to eighteen months compared to a straightforward H-1B filing.
Which engineering disciplines sponsor green cards most frequently?
Civil, structural, geotechnical, and environmental engineering firms sponsor EB-3 green cards regularly, particularly for project-based roles that are difficult to fill domestically. Electrical and mechanical engineering roles in manufacturing and infrastructure also appear frequently in PERM filings. O*NET classifies most PE roles in Job Zone 4 or 5, which supports specialty occupation and advanced-degree eligibility arguments.
How can I find Professional Engineer jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Search Migrate Mate to filter PE job listings by employers with documented green card sponsorship history. This saves significant time compared to applying broadly and then asking about sponsorship mid-process. Engineering firms that have sponsored before have established relationships with immigration counsel and understand the PERM timeline, making them more predictable sponsors.
Does my country of birth affect my EB-3 green card wait time as an engineer?
Yes. Nationals of India and China face significantly longer priority date backlogs due to per-country caps under U.S. immigration law, even at the EB-3 level. For most other nationalities, EB-3 priority dates are current or near-current, meaning the PERM and I-140 stages determine the majority of your total wait. USCIS publishes the Visa Bulletin monthly with current priority date cutoffs.