SAP Consultant-Technical at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To apply specialisation within SAP projects and technical expertise (under minimal Supervision ) that meets customer business needs by interacting with stakeholders to define requirements and priorities.  
• Performs systems analysis, solution design, develop, supports and maintains SAP system.

Job Responsibilities

• Preparing Architecture with complete analysis of the system connection, system authentication, requests, responses, logging etc.
• Liaise with the business / functional consultants and conduct JAD sessions to understand their requirements in order to inform solution designs.
• To have practical understanding of Agile practices and tooling such as Jira and Confluence.
• To have the ability to conduct unit, E2E and Regression testing as well as ensuring all technical specifications are documented in detail.
• Collaborate and share knowledge with the team.
• Implementation and Configuration: Overseeing the implementation and configuration of SAP CPI integrations, including adapter setup and managing different SAP modules and non-SAP systems.
• Performance Optimization: Identifying performance bottlenecks and providing tuning recommendations for SAP CPI processes to improve integration performance.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitoring CPI flows, proactively identifying issues, and troubleshooting errors in real-time to ensure smooth integration.
• Security Management: Ensuring security protocols are adhered to in CPI integrations, including certificate-based authentication, OAuth, and handling encrypted data transfers.
• Data Mapping and Transformation: Managing and optimizing complex data transformations using Groovy and message mapping for different scenarios.
• Documentation: Creating detailed technical documentation of integration flows, configurations, and best practices to ensure clear communication across teams.
• Groovy script and Message mapping
• Knowledge of SAP CPI Design Best practices, Error Handling Mechanism, SAP CPI Architecture
• API Management: Experience in integrating with SAP API Management and handling API Gateway configuration.
• Adapters Configuration: Expertise in configuring adapters such as SOAP, REST, SFTP, SuccessFactors, and IDOC.
• Performance Tuning and Optimization: Ability to identify performance bottlenecks in integration scenarios and optimize CPI flows.

Critical Knowledge

• Version Control: Familiarity with version control for integration artifacts
• Transport: Experience with transport integration and continuous deployment using solution manager.
• Good understanding on the integration patterns, best practices, cloud, and on-premises application integration concepts
• Work on complex mapping transformation, resolving technical issues, adapter configurations.
• Security Integration: Knowledge of securing integration processes, including OAuth2, SAML, certificates, and tokens.
• ABAP and backend SAP ODATA Services
• SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) - Cloud Foundry would be beneficial. 
• SAP CAP (Cloud Application Programming)
• SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) - Cloud Foundry beneficial

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Bcom/IS/IT ENG/BSc/Com Science related degree 

Minimum Experience Level

• 3 - 5 years SAP Technical experience 
• SAP PI/PO (Process Integration/Orchestration)
• Cloud Integration with third-party systems
• OAuth and SAML for secure integrations
• SAP ABAP
• SAP Cloud System
• SAP Cloud Connector
• Node JS
• SQL database queries
• JMS Queue background
• SAP Cloud Connector