SAP ABAP Lead

**Primary responsibilities**
- SAP (FI-GL, AR, AP, AA, IM, PS, MM, SD, RE-FX and APO)
- SAP GRC
- HR System like Workday
- SAP Fiori
- Responsible for the overall technical design of SAP solutions and support SAP Program(s) enhancements/ implementations.
- Produces conceptual and logical solution designs that address business requirements while respecting corporate and architectural standards and guidelines.
- Develops detailed process models for specific technology solutions in conjunction with functional experts.
- Formulates and presents the architecture, design and implementation methods and status for internal and external customer review.
- Identifies hardware and software architectural needs and solutions.
- Identifies architectural and technology risks with the potential to impact customer or company IS plans; develops goals and plans to mitigate risks.
- Identifies discrepancies between the enterprise technical architecture and systems designs proposed by project teams and assists project teams in resolving the discrepancies.
- Develops and maintains daily routines to review production support metrics
- Develops Architecture/Technical standards and guidelines
- Assists in development of dashboards and reports to regularly communicate results.
- Summarizes and escalates critical or unresolved support issues to leadership.
- Leads requirements and solution design activities with customers, coordinates test case development, user acceptance testing and business approvals for development lifecycle
- Manage project and resources for successful delivery.
- Participates in project related meetings to provide/obtain status, assess risks and implement mitigation strategies, provide SME input as required; staffs projects accordingly using implementation partners and internal resources as required
- Makes recommendations for improvements, standardization, consolidation of reports to common layouts for supportability/usability, and determines ways to optimize information generation and distribution
- Follows change management procedures to enable smooth deployment of new or changed software and to provide recovery options should changes need to be backed out and work with operations staff to support changes released to production

Demonstrates willingness to mentor others and learn new techniques

Must have strong analytical abilities coupled with sound trouble-shooting skills

Development of validation programs to ensure that data quality control standards are achieved. Performs data integrity checks, reports anomalies, and communicates findings with support teams for resolution

**Qualifications & skills**
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years related work experience
- 7+ years of Hands-on SAP development and troubleshooting experience with skills in ABAP/4 Programming Language including SmartForms, User-exits, BADI’s, Idocs, Object Oriented Programming in ABAP, Javascript
- Technical knowledge of SAP systems and a good understanding of several functional areas such as FI, SD, MM, PP, and APO
- Exposure and understanding of SAP security concepts and Basis
- ABAP Fiori UI5 experience
- Ability to depict the architecture views conceptually, logically and physically
- Proven experience translating business problems into actionable initiatives
- Strong customer focus and analytical thinking ability
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
- Experience with Single Sign On, SAML, LDAP, AD integration
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, and IT project team members to define, design, and execute activities related to data validation
- Excellent verbal and written communication; develops and plans communication strategies to ensure activities and accomplishments are communicated to senior management, project stakeholders, and IT teams
- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel and to summarize findings and recommendations for leadership presentations when needed
- Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with all stakeholders to ensure program success