SAP Programmer Analyst

Department Overview

Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments that collaborate effectively to deliver high-quality technology solutions. The SAP Finance Delivery organization provides SAP IT services to the business units. The organization is responsible for strategic technology planning, roadmap development, solution design, solution delivery, and solution support.

Position Summary

The role of Expert SAP Programmer Analyst involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining SAP enhancements and functionalities across all modules. The Programmer Analyst gathers business requirements, creates functional design documents, and designs and develops programs, reports, and enhancements to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations. The role includes ongoing SAP/Non-SAP system support and analyzing business requirements to develop integrated IT and complex business solutions.

Job Responsibilities

Client Support

• Understand major areas of the client’s business environment and effectively identify current and future business needs.
• Design, develop, modify, debug, and evaluate application programs for the business areas.
• Assignment will be a mix of projects, enhancements, and production support.
• Analyze existing applications and systems and formulate logic for new systems and procedures.
• Assist in the definition, development, and documentation of deliverables and specifications on a project-by-project basis as defined in the IT Methodology, in collaboration with business analysts and other project team members.
• Prepare and obtain approval of system and development documentation.
• Anticipate client concerns and questions and provide timely, professional, straightforward (non-technical) communications.
• Provide on-call support for production systems and provide timely solutions.
• Respond to ad-hoc questions and intra-departmental communications.

Maintenance

• Participate in defect management process, set priorities, research issues, and discuss compliance impacts and timelines.
• Support bug fixes, patches, minor enhancements, and service requests.
• Incident response and end-user support – Provide Level 3 support to the IT Help desk. Help with issue resolution and interact with third-party interface providers for end-to-end solution support.

Qualifications

• Minimum:
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of programming experience in SAP ABAP/4, Adobe Forms, Smart Forms, EDI.
• Proven knowledge with programming principles to enhance system performance.
• Multiple programming languages experience.
• Desired:
• 5+ years of experience designing interfaces from SAP to non-SAP external systems.
• Work experience in SAP Gateway/ODATA development.
• Experience in configuration of SAP Gateway Services.
• Good experience with SAP UI5 / Fiori and in building analytical applications and transactional applications for both mobile and desktops.
• Understanding how HANA works and its impact on developing applications, using SQL in ABAP.
• ABAP CDS Views.
• Knowledge of RESTful ABAP Programming model and experience in development on Suite on HANA.
• Good experience in consuming and exposing web services (i.e., SOAP / REST) and BOPF framework.
• Interpersonal skills: Strong presentation, communication, facilitation, and leadership skills (oral and written).
• Hands-on experience with HANA Cloud platform technologies like SAP Cloud platform integration, API Management cloud, and open connectors.
• Experience with data modeling leveraging HANA information models. Hands-on experience with code push down techniques like AMDP and CDS table functions.
• SAP Cloud Platform and its tools: Web IDE, Cloud Portal, CPI, API Management, HANA XSA development.
• Experience with data transfer and interfacing tools such as BDC, ALE, BAPI, EDI, RFC, PI, SAP Connector.
• SAP S4 HANA Migration Experience.
• Help internal teams develop an agile, future-ready architecture and integrated ecosystem.