Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the installation, technical administration, tuning, and monitoring of SAP ERP (& related) software including R/3 4.7, ECC 5.0 & 6.0, BW, XI 3.0/PI 7.0 & Solution Manager. Also Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server implementations on Windows platform
• Expertise in providing primary support for SAP R/3 related systems
• Apply support packages, and add-ons
• Provide 24×7 hour support for mission critical system software, possible on call schedule
• Effectively communicate and interact with technical personnel in solving complex business and technical problems
• Ability to complete tasks within critical timelines and work well in a high-energy environment

• Prepare status reports and attend status meetings
• Research and provide directions for SAP software corrections including SAP OSS notes and SAP support packages
• Manage the SAP router configuration for SAP support
• Design and document security administration policies and procedures (SOP) for the production environment and train the Helpdesk to perform basic operations tasks on SAP
• Creation of client landscapes and client copies
• Create and maintain RFC connections

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computing related field
• 3+ years Basis administration experience working in a complex SAP environment. R/3 and middleware experience preferred
• Experience supporting and working in a project development and support environment with ability to diagnose and solve problems quickly
• Thorough understanding and skill in database concepts (Oracle preferred)
• Good coding, testing, and documentation skills required
• Have an analytical mind and the ability to delve into detail, but also have an interest in broader business issues
• Exceptional communications (written and oral), change leadership and customer service skills

• Experience in managing SAP environment changes and upgrades
• Forward looking approach that anticipates overall project and engagement needs
• Demonstrated customer service skills/attitude
• Demonstrated value added expertise in special areas of SAP technology
• Demonstrated ability to author technical specifications, presentations, and other documentation

Additional Requirements:

• 100% travel to client sites may be required
• US citizens/permanent residents only

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages day-to-day maintenance of applications & interfaces
• Develop, maintain and support interface scenarios
• Manage technical design and functional specifications for interface scenarios, identify user requirements, use critical thinking to analyze & suggest alternative designs
• Utilizes various methods and processes to determine requirements and design formal solutions in response to those requirements
• Develop test cases, conduct informal and formal testing and document test results appropriately
• Utilize technical expertise with various interfacing technologies, including IDOCs, BAPIs, ALE, EDI and applications such as XI, WebSphere DataStage TX (formerly known as Mercator), Gentran, MQ-Series, Seeberger, iWay etc.
• Provide essential knowledge transfer to junior consultants and provide ad hoc guidance
• Prepare status reports for project management and attend status meetings
• Provide guidance and expertise with SAP’s development and integration technologies including: ALE design and implementation; transport layer, environment planning, upgrades, and risk mitigation
• work with the Basis team and SAP on all aspects of system builds

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computing related field
• 2-4 Years technical (hands-on) experience in SAP related interface technologies
• Experience with IDOCs, BAPIs, ALE, EDI & RFC’s
• ABAP development experience
• Excellent ability to problem solve and analyze complex issues
• Ability to work as a team player and also handle individual responsibilities
• Experience working in complex environments with defined documentation and development methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with SAP 4.6 or higher required.
• Very strong knowledge/expertise with SAP and ABAP
• Functional expertise in core SAP module, e.g. SD,MM or FICO, highly desirable
• SAP implementation and upgrade (desirable) experience
• Hands-on experience and technical proficiency in Object Oriented ABAP (OOPs) with expertise in RICEFW development
• Well-versed in analysis the performance and efficiency of programs and codes using the SAP tools SQL Trace & Runtime Analysis for Performance tuning
• Technical proficiency in use of OSS Notes
• Experience with defining and coding conversions and interfaces using LSMW, BAPI, IDOC, BDC, and call transaction update methods
• Hands-on experience and technical proficiency in User Exits (Field Exits, Menu Exits, Function Exits, Screen Exits, Conversion Exits, BADIs)

Additional Requirements:

• 100% travel to client sites may be required
• US citizens/permanent residents only

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

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages (where applicable) day-to-day configuration/maintenance of middleware technologies, including SAP PI/XI, WebSphere DataStage TX (formerly known as Mercator) & Gentran
• Manage middleware basis configuration
• Responsible for designing, coding, testing and implementing middleware interfaces
• Manages technical design and functional specifications for middleware technologies, identify user requirements, use critical thinking to analyze & make alternative suggestions, where applicable
• Work within guidelines and broadly defined direction
• Provide day-to-day direction to multiple team members. Tendency for functional- and tools- specialization in 1-3 different areas. Ability to effectively deal with 2-3 projects concurrently
• Prepare status reports and attend status meetings

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computing related field
• 2-4 Years technical (hands-on) experience in middleware technogies
• Technical expertise with at least one of SAP PI/XI, WebSphere DataStage TX (formerly known as Mercator) or Gentran
• Experience with at least one of the following – IDOCs, BAPIs, ALE, EDI & RFCs
• ABAP development experience
• Excellent ability to problem solve and analyze complex issues
• Ability to work as a team player and also handle individual responsibilities
• Experience in working in complex environments with defined documentation and development methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Additional Requirements:

• 100% travel to client sites may be required
• US citizens/permanent residents only