SAP ABAP Developer

Location: US – Multiple Locations

Required Skills Summary

• 5+ years in SAP ABAP software development
• Strong ABAP skills with significant version experience in SAP 4.6c and higher
• At least 5 full lifecycle SAP implementations
• Full understanding of the SAP transport process
• High level understanding of business processes in multiple SAP functional modules, e.g. FI, SD, MM, PP, HR, PS, PM, WM
• Experience with Enterprise Portal, Web Dynpro, and Web Methods
• SAP ABAP Certification
• Experience with 3rd party applications within SAP, e.g. Sabrix, Vistex, Vertex, etc

Primary Responsibilities

• Involved in the lifecycle of critical projects from design through go-live
• Provide technical designs from functional designs with high level coding designs
• Assist functional team with technical direction to design high quality solutions
• Code, test and implement ABAP programs and modifications based upon specifications
• Provide robust, scalable, error free and efficient technical solutions with the minimum of management supervision
• Troubleshoot, identify and resolve day to day problems that occur with programs or software
• Provide production support and technical assistance
• Assist in identifying and resolving SAP issues across multiple functional areas
• Provide problem resolution for SAP support issues to internal business partners and maintain support logs and technical documentation
• Establish coding and development standards for portal technologies
• Facilitate code reviews and identify opportunities to improve existing programs
• Resolve issues with programs that are causing system performance problems
• Research SAP/OSS notes to resolve issues
• Assist with OSS note, upgrade and support pack evaluation, installation and testing
• Prepare development estimates that will be used for project planning purposes
• Strong experience in at least one SAP functional area and/or end-to-end business process, e.g. quote to cash, procure to pay

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SAP ABAP software development
• At least five full life cycle SAP project implementations
• ABAP development and workbench experience in SAP releases 4.6c, 4.7, ECC 5.0 and ECC 6.0
• Technical skills including: interfaces/integration, BAPIs, BADIs, parallel processing, screen and dialog programming, ALV reporting, table control, user exit / customer enhancements, transaction VOFM, custom application design, performance optimization, techniques for investigating performance issues, BI, SAPscript, Smartforms, Adobe Forms, Barcoding output, EDI/IDOC/XI
• Familiarity with the SAP data dictionary in a broad range of SAP modules
• Experience creating dynamic reports and subroutine pools for dynamic programming in ABAP
• Experience with ETL concepts and implementation
• Design skills including: proven ability to take defined business needs and create designs, propose and evaluate alternatives, estimate development hours, test plans, execute positive and negative tests and validate test results
• Proven ability to execute technical design reviews and code reviews

Additional Desirable Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and code debugging skills
• Able to work with business users directly as well as technical resources in a cross-functional multidisciplinary environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with SAP version ECC 6.0 and NetWeaver Developer / Development tools (NWDS, NWDI)
• Experience with BI Explorer (Bex) Objects
• Consuming 3rd party remote systems using ABAP proxies / Web Services
• Exposing RFC-enabled function modules as a Web Service