Sap Abap Developer

Role & responsibilities

Crafts architecture for systems and data integration, that enables the organization to deliver integration at scale

• Analyzes system operations through monitoring, capacity analysis and root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance
• Assists in the overall maintenance and support of the efficient integration solutions
• Leads integration testing phase of software and applications under development to identify and remedy potential issues
• Demonstrates knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), modeling of business processes, application design patterns, and business/functional documents
• Supports the building and maintenance of an Enterprise portfolio to support Application capabilities lifecycle and roadmap initiatives
• Supports development of Platform Reference Architectures and Roadmaps
• Advises business areas in the analysis of innovative technologies and how they impact the broader Enterprise Architecture
• Analyzes the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend tactical and strategic changes
• Participates in the life cycle planning of existing IT assets
• Analyzes the impact of implementing new technologies into the IT infrastructure
• Develops a technical strategy for data integrations and implement a scalable design using industry best practices
• Drives simplification and standardization of enterprise integration solutions and ensures low-cost, effective solutions that meet business requirements
• Assists in the analysis, design, and development of the integration roadmap
• Provides guidance, direction, and support to junior members of the technical team
• Analyzes industry standards and trends in integration technologies

Job Description

Under general direction of the Manager, responsible for working directly with functional team members deployment team and Systems Integration (SI) partner team members.
1. Takes a hands-on approach as it relates to the design development and implementation.
2. Works with the functional team to ensure requirements are met by technical design.
3. Facilitates issue resolution during testing process.
4. Operates as the internal technical expert on Customer ABAP Development, ABAP, UI5, HANA, and other SAP related technologies to develop functional solutions that solve business needs and align with IT strategy
5. Functions as the technical designer of future enhancements on Customer ABAP Development.
6. Performs related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Requires training in fields such as information systems computer sciences or similar vocations obtained through completion of a four-year bachelors degree program; normally requires a minimum of 4 plus years directly related and progressively responsible experience designing building testing and deploying enterprise SAP solutions; 3 plus years of SAP application development (certification preferred) with in-depth experience in ABAP Workbench, ABAP Objects, BAPI, BADIs, RFC Smart Forms, Adobe Forms, IDOCs, BDC and ALV Programming.

SAP Sr ABAP Programmer

What you will be doing

• Analyzes system operations through monitoring, capacity analysis and root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance.
• Assists in the overall maintenance and support of efficient software solutions. Collaborates with technology teams across the Organization to leverage resources and expertise, establish software best practices and standards, and build for partnerships with IT teams.
• Responsible for program designs, development, unit testing, peer reviews in an SAP ABAP environment.
• Responsible for identifying development tasks in support of project planning and estimation.
• Participates in and makes performance recommendations to code during peer reviews.
• Works with functional and business users to troubleshoot issues in production.
• Demonstrates knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC), modeling of business processes, application design patterns, and business/functional documents
• Supports the building and maintenance of an Enterprise portfolio to support Application capabilities lifecycle and roadmap initiatives.
• Advises business areas in the analysis of innovative technologies and how they impact the broader Enterprise Architecture
• Assists in the analysis, design, and development of the business solutions.
• Analyzes industry standards and trends in integration technologies.
• Provides technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members.
• Conducts SAP unit testing to ensure systems meets user specifications.
• Requires increased skill in multiple technical environments and knowledge of a specific business area.
• May participate in the project planning process with team members.
• May meet with process team to analyze business processes, understand requirements, and recommend technical solutions.
• May provide production support as needed. Identifies recurring and potential problems.
• Reviews and may assist in development of policies and procedures for production monitoring, scheduling, restart and recovery procedures.
• Conducts SAP unit testing to ensure systems meets user specifications.
• May analyzes existing SAP platform to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements, when assigned.
• Troubleshoots existing information systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develop solutions.
• Provides technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members.
• Develops reports and presentations for senior management, as needed.
• Works with functional users to troubleshoot issues in production.
• Troubleshoots and resolves production problems.
• Escalates issues to manager and admin and process teams where necessary.
• Identifies recurring and potential problems and recommends procedures and controls for prevention.
• Recommends ideas for improving production support.
• Documents technical design and test activities/results
• Follows established change control procedures.
• Provides input to the development and maintenance of development standards for full life cycle implementations or upgrades.
• Assists in evaluating new SAP application development tools.
• Demonstrates knowledge of ABAP development
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills
• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail
• Good conceptual and problem solving skills to evaluate business problems and apply applications knowledge to identify appropriate solutions
• Good interpersonal skills; effective team player