Senior Specialist: SAP Development & Integration (Fixed Term Contract) at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To provide technical expertise in custom development and contribute to strategic decisions with associated development plans, by implementing continuous improvements, to support the entire software application life cycle, providing resolutions, ensuring best practice integration and operational implementation, through the achievement of SAP Development objectives

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Information Technology (IT) Fields: Information Technology, Computer Science, B‐Com, Finance, Management and Engineering AND 8-10 years' experience in a SAP Development environment, of which 3-4 years is at a junior specialist level.

ALTERNATIVE #

• Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 15 years  experience in a SAP Development environment, of which 4-3 years is at junior specialist level.

 Minimum Functional Requirements

• Experience and knowledge of key integration points between SAP modules.
• Relevant SAP Development or integration analysis and development experience. SAP SKILLS Strong background in SAP programming.
• Basic understanding of overall business ERP system landscapes including data flows and internal/external integration.
• Understanding of SAP tables and data structures desired. SAP Procurement Configuration Skills.
• Relevant training and/or certification related to - SAP ABAP, SAP BRF; SAP PI/ PO, and SAP WF training

Job Outputs:

Process

• Acts as liaison with client for troubleshooting: investigate, analyse, and solve critical SAP functional and application problems and map client business requirements, processes and objectives. Develop necessary product modifications to satisfy clients' needs.
•  Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices.
•  Analyse and Review requirements, perform configuration and testing in various SAP Modules, such as Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Security, Revenue Management, Governance and Application, Lifecycle Management, Cloud Solutions, etc.
• Close communication with functional teams /designers, understand the requirements from provided functional designs and transform these requirements into the technical designs.
• Contribute to high productivity and motivation of working team with the use of your communication skills and cooperation; reach and realize project aims and outputs.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
• Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Ensure proper testing has been completed and proper documentation exists to support new/modified applications in production and address any documentation gaps.
• Incident Resolution for Severity 1 and 2 issues and assist with Business escalations for issues raised.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
• Perform complex tasks and guidance during implementation, maintenance and support of various SAP modules to enhance business functionality and overall performance, while maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
• Plan maintenance of current system solutions for various SAP Modules, such as Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, Security, Revenue Management, Governance and Application Lifecycle Management, Cloud Solutions, etc.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
• Provide expert knowledge of industry best practices and recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, policies and procedures, and execute the implementation of change and innovation initiated by the organisation.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Review documentation for approval of all work tasks (definition) based on BRS and ensure adherence to SAP Support SDLC.

Governance

• Develop and /or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.

People

• Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
• Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

Client

• Develop and ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence and encourages others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
• Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.

Behavioural competencies

• Accountability
• Adaptability
• Analytical Thinking  
• Attention to Detail 
• Customer service
• Commitment to Continuous Learning 
• Conceptual Ability 
• Expertise in Context
• Fairness and Transparency
• Honesty and Integrity
• Organisational Awareness
• Respect
• Trust

Technical competencies

• Business IT Systems
• Business Knowledge
• Computer Literacy
• Data Collection and analysis
• Efficiency improvement
• IT Knowledge
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Problem Analysis and Judgement
• Reporting
• System thinking
• Technical analysis

Deadline:1st February,2026