SAP Development and Integration Lead at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Leads a team of ERP programmers on projects of a moderately complex nature by instructing, advising, directing and checking the work of team members.
• Responsible for quality assurance review of development projects and the evaluation and documentation of team procedures.
• Requires full technical knowledge of all necessary phases of the project.
• May be responsible for system design and specifications and advanced programming and applying desktop and main frame technologies. 
• Delivering results with IT development language and types such as SAP and ORACLE.
• As a team player in the SGT SAP CoE team, you and your team will be required to deliver development and integration services relating to S/4HANA Finance, SAP Data Services, Master Data Governance, Insurance Analyser, SAP ECC HCM, Success Factors and SAP Business Technology Platform.
• You will lead a team of SAP development and integration specialists delivering expertise in support of business-as-usual system changes, bespoke Cloud and on-premise applications by using fit-for-purpose SAP technologies. You will be required to act as subject matter expert on latest SAP development tools and provide expert technical advice to functional teams and business stakeholders in search of SAP system solutions.
• You will be required, in your own capacity, to also undertake development and integration requests while guiding the team to adhere to leading SAP development practices.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Receive, assess and allocate JIRA requests 

Assist with:

• Periodic client cadences for alignment, prioritisation and escalation activities
• Adequate resource levelling in response to backlog and incoming JIRA requests
• Adherence to Release, Incident and SAP Change Management procedures
• Audit compliance in change management
• Alignment with SAP CoE governance, procedures and standards
• Troubleshoot technical bugs
• Advise on enhancements to existing integration patterns

Provide support with:

• functional resources with change requests and resolution of issues
• SAP Platform Services in maintenance of landscape
• Provide support during application upgrades
• Undertake development requests 

Qualification

• Grade 12 
• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science or Information Technology  

Experience

• 5 years in SAP Development using required development tools and coding languages
• 3 years in S/4HANA and Business Technology Platform
• 5 years in SAP ECC.

Knowledge 

• Working functional knowledge of SAP ECC HCM, Success Factors, Master Data Governance, SAP Data Services and/or S/4HANA Finance

Knowledge of:

• SAP Integration Suite, Web Services, API’s and other integration patterns
• SAP Business Technology Platform and services
• DevOps using SAP Solutions will be advantageous
• HTML will be advantageous

Functional knowledge of SAP HCM and Success Factors will be advantageous

Ability to:

• Interpret and interrogate written requirements 
• Prioritise tasks based on operational needs
• Deliver in accordance with strict deadlines