SAP Ariba Integration Consultant – Contract at Salt South Africa

Role Purpose

• Responsible for designing, implementing, configuring and supporting integrations between SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA / SAP ERP and third-party applications. The role ensures reliable data exchange across procurement and source-to-pay processes, while supporting integration design, testing, troubleshooting and deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, configure and maintain integrations between SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA / ERP and external systems.
• Analyse business and technical requirements and translate them into integration solutions.
• Configure Ariba integration scenarios across master data, suppliers, purchase orders, invoices, receipts, sourcing, contracts and procurement.
• Develop and maintain interfaces using SAP Integration Suite / CPI, Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG), APIs, REST/SOAP web services and SPROXY.
• Monitor interfaces and resolve integration errors and data discrepancies.
• Perform unit, system integration, regression and UAT testing.
• Support deployments across development, testing and production environments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, functional consultants, developers, SAP teams and external vendors.
• Maintain integration designs, mappings, configurations and technical documentation.
• Ensure compliance with security, architecture, data governance and organisational standards.
• Provide production support and troubleshooting for integration incidents.
• Support SAP Ariba implementations, upgrades, enhancements and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer where required.

Key Skills

• SAP Ariba Integration & Configuration
• Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG)
• SAP Integration Suite / Cloud Integration (CPI)
• SAP S/4HANA & SAP ERP integration
• Integration architecture & solution design
• APIs, REST, SOAP, web services & SPROXY
• XML, JSON, CSV & cXML
• Data mapping & transformation
• Integration troubleshooting & testing
• SAP ABAP knowledge is advantageous

Qualifications

• SAP Ariba Integration Certification
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Informatics, Computer Science or equivalent

Experience

• Minimum 2+ years’ experience as an SAP Ariba Integration Consultant