SAP Functional Consultant ABAP at Vivo Energy (Shell licensee in Africa)

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.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Responsible primarily for providing ABAP support on operational issues.
• 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.

Requirements

• Degree in information technology or relevant qualification
• Minimum of 8 years of ABAP experience
• SAP Fiori development experience is required (1 year)
• Gateway development
• HANA Exposure