Technology Senior Consultant - SAP Ariba

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Summary:

SAP Ariba Procurement Technology Services is a team of high skilled diverse technology consultants that support complex technical configurations to enable spend management business processes and seamless integrations between SAP Ariba cloud solutions and enterprise resource planning systems or external systems. Our team is looking for a SAP Technical consultant with 3 - 15 years of experience. This role leverages consulting skills, advisory skills, business knowledge and strong solution expertise to effectively manage and deliver large scale complex integrations for SAP Ariba cloud offerings.

Role:

• Deep programming experience on SAP technologies (SAP Fiori, BTP Development, SAP CPI) or languages like JAVA, Python or similar.
• Exposure to SAP MM, SAP Ariba & good understanding of Procurement and supply chain processes.
• Propose, conceptualize, design and implement solutions that involve integrations between SAP cloud offerings, S/4 HANA and/or SAP ECC.
• Demonstrate knowledge of key integration points across SAP modules, technical components and SAP Ariba solutions to provide strategic technical and functional direction.
• Proactively apply global SAP implementation experience to guide complex fit/gap analysis and design decisions.
• Organize and facilitate collaborative solution architecting workshops with consulting partners, client business managers and end-users to drive industry best practices.
• Validate and assess feasibility on business requirements analysis or design decisions made by consulting partners, customer’s business and IT delivery team members.
• Develop functional specifications and work with other Technical Teams to complete object development and testing.
• Prepare technical artifacts including technical design documents, integration design documents and quick reference guides.
• Lead and manage technical development and configurations for SAP Ariba, SAP ERP, SAP BTP and SAP Middleware solutions.
• Enable business rules and integration configurations on SAP ERP and Ariba applications suite.
• Facilitate SAP software components installation and configuration.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical or business problems.
• Establish and nurture relationships with business users, help analyse their processes, make value driven choices by being proactive and adaptive.
• Integrate technical expertise and business understanding to create superior solutions for customers.
• Demonstrate broad technical leadership, exert influence outside of immediate team and drive change.

Role requirements:

• Bachelor or master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business Informatics, Business Administration with focus on Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering or related area.
• Minimum 4 years of technical programming experience.
• Should have exposure to Procurement solutions, preferably SAP Procurement or Ariba.
• Hands on project-based experience designing and implementing solutions preferably SAP ERP/Ariba Solutions that involved green field implementations, system conversions or landscape transformations.
• Exposure to SOAP, Micro Services and one or more SAP Cloud Platform Capabilities – Integration, Workflow, User Experience, Mobility, Analytics, Machine Learning, Block Chain etc. is preferred.
• Strong business process knowledge and ability to map business requirements to standard SAP processes with minimal or no customization.
• Global Delivery Model experience working with geographically distributed teams positioned across global time zones.
• Ability to handle high pressure and high demand situations effectively as a technical consultant.
• Experience with SAP implementation methodologies and SAP Solution Manager is preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to impart ideas in both technical and user-friendly language, presentation skills and influencing skills.

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
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Requisition ID: 408345  | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.