SAP Functional Consultant ABAP at Datacentrix

Our external client is currently in a process in recruiting for a SAP ABAP -  Functional Consultant  (12 Months Contract) to  Support of SAP modules through delivery of expert consulting services and solutions. This role uses consulting skills, business knowledge, and SAP solution expertise to effectively integrate SAP technology into the business environment.

Responsibilities 

• Responsible primarily for providing ABAP support on operational issues.
• Working across all countries and all business areas.
• Act as the technical expert, ensuring quick turnaround in identifying application issues and providing timely solutions.
• Transform business function requirements into technical program specifications to code, test and debug programs.
• Develop, code, document and execute unit tests, systems, integration and acceptance tests and testing tools for functions of high complexity.
• Perform performance tuning to improve performance over multiple functions
• Engage other technical team members in the design, delivery, and deployment of solutions.
• Ensure integration system activities including monitoring the technical architecture (particularly scalability, availability and archiving) meet all SLA's.
• Manage operational support, performing work during change windows as well as providing on call support as required by the team.
• Undertake performance-tuning activities for SAP integration activities.
• Provide consulting services on new and existing initiatives.
• Contribution to solution development as required by the function
• Support the implementation of new SAP products in the organisation and ensure knowledge transfer to users
• Close cooperation with the teams at group level regarding knowledge-sharing and business development for specific expert topics across Africa.

Key Challenges: 

• Management of a large number of stakeholders across all functions and countries
• Working independently and remotely from stakeholders
• Being strong in response to challenge and conflict

Job Knowledge, Skills & Experiences

• Degree in information technology or relevant qualification

• Minimum of 8 years of ABAP experience

• Strong object orientation experience

• SAP Fiori development experience is required (1 year)

• Gateway development

• HANA Exposure

• Strong analytical skills and ability to write technical specifications

• Experience in working with Oil & Gas client, preferably Oil Downstream (Fuel Retail), HCP or Java experience as well as the ability to write functional specifications.

• ABAP Reports, Classical Reports, dialog programming, module pool programming and ALV

• ABAP Dictionary

• Performance tuning

• ABAP OO Programming

• Creation of complex transactions

• Dynamic Programming, RTTS concepts

• Data Migration

• Debugging and enhancement

• Experience in SAP Solution Manager

• Experience in ticketing tool such as HPALM

• Ability to multitask and manage multiple deliverables at the same time.

• Must be able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload

• Know-how of project and consulting business practices

• Strong organizational skills and able to collaborate with the business

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

• Experience in working with global teams across geographies.

• Enthusiasm to learn and develop knowledge and skills

• Good interpersonal skills

• Customer focused

• Confidence in dealing with stakeholders

• Strong attention to detail

• Capacity for teamwork, analysis and conceptual thinking

Desired Skills and Experience:

• ALE/IDOC
• BAPI, BADI
• User Exits, Customer Exits
• Basic support knowledge of SAP Functional areas; FI, MM, SD, PP, HR, SCM
• Data profiling / Data assessment
• Exposure to Content Server / OpenText
• Understanding of Archive related t-code
• Archiving Administration, Storing, retrieval, reporting & access of archived data, archive jobs management and Archive Link
• SAP workflow
• Exposure to DaRT, OpenText, Data Volume Management, SARA and TAANA tools
• Conceptual understanding of  SAP ILM-based archiving with good understanding of the features to manage live data archiving and legacy decommissioning