SAP Specialist

1.0 Description of Assignment

The Financial Systems Transformation Project (FSTP) is intended to transform the financial processes and move the SAP Finance related modules from the

current on premise ECC environment to the new SAP S/4HANA. A consultant with

extensive experience in SAP development is required to augment the development

team bringing both expertise and demonstrated competency spanning the

spectrum of techniques required for the development of reports, interfaces,

enhancements, forms and workflows as well as enhancing functionality. The role

will include hands-on development in both SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC including

the creation of all required documentation as well as coaching and knowledge

sharing to assist the team to produce high quality deliverables within the prescribed

timelines.

The Development Consultant will be working in a hybrid mode, which includes a

combination of remote and in-person work. There will be 2-3 in-person days at the

downtown location. The successful candidate will be

working five (5) days per week based on normal working

Business Hours.

2.0 Assignment Duties

 Design, document, develop, and unit test required development objects

adhering to current best practices in SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC for both

project and sustainment development deliverables.

 Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC)

including initiation, planning, requirements gathering, design, development,

testing, implementation, and maintenance of SAP applications for both

project and sustainment development deliverables.

 Report status, highlight risks and issues and make recommendations to

streamline development and ensure high quality deliverables that are on

time and on budget.

 Support defect investigation and remediation for all development objects in

SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC during project testing cycles including

escalation with SAP if required.

 Design and implementation of processes and procedures required to

sustain development objects within operations including but not limited to

error handling and monitoring.

 Provide knowledge transfer sessions including presentations and

documentation for development deliverables.

 Fully document development deliverables including technical specifications,

technical unit tests and run procedures.

 Provide knowledge sharing sessions for development techniques and

select development objects that have been developed throughout the

duration of the project i.e. not just developed as part of this assignment.

 Provide coaching and share knowledge with the development team

members thereby assisting in the upskilling of the developers to enable the

sustainment of the development objects created as part of the project.

 Review of documents, processes and procedures provided by the system

integrator.

 Perform code and Quality Assurance (QA) reviews for System

Integrator.

 Assist with integration activities with divisional systems

 Assist in the design of project/sustainment procedures including but not

limited to QA, Fiori application management etc.

3.0 Qualifications

It is important that the Services be undertaken by a consultant that has extensive

hands-on SAP development experience, has been immersed in all aspects of the

software development lifecycle, and is proficient in the creation of documentation

as well as knowledge transfer/sharing.

Qualifications and Experience:

1. Post-secondary education in computer science, or the approved equivalent

combination of education and/or experience. Development related

certification is considered an asset.

1. A minimum of 10+ years hands-on experience in ABAP Development

(including ABAP Objects and ABAP 7.4 and 7.5 Syntax) spanning the full

RICEFW development object spectrum in SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC.

1. Experience performing and managing the full SDLC for development

deliverables including the preparation of comprehensive documentation

and knowledge transfer.

1. Experience providing input and subject matter expertise during

requirements gathering, design and functional specification preparation as

well as providing feedback during functional specification review.

1. Experience mentoring, coaching, and sharing knowledge with developers

to assist with hands-on learning and overall upskilling of the team. This

includes RICEFW development and tools/applications including but not

limited to Business Application Studio, Eclipse ADT and Gitlab.

1. Experience using tools such as: SAP Solution Manager (Project

Management, Change Management, Service Request, and Incident

Management), Jira, and SAP Quality Center by HP(HPQC).

1. Experience in project methodologies such as: Agile, Waterfall, etc.

Technical Capabilities:

1. Development experience with Eclipse ADT and SAPGUI.

2. Experience in integration between SAP S/4HANA/ECC and other

systems/applications using a variety of methods including IDocs and APIs

(OData, REST APIs and SOAP Webservices). Experience with Cloud

Integration (CI) Integration Flows (iFlows) or other middleware and

Application Interface Framework (AIF) are considered assets.

1. Experience with the Gateway Service Builder (SEGW), Core Data Services

(CDS) and ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP).

1. Fiori application development experience. Business Application Studio

(BAS) and Gitlab experience are considered assets.

1. Experience creating reports using various techniques including Embedded

Analytics and/or SAP Analytics Cloud.

1. Experience implementing enhancements including BADi's, Customer Exits,

BTE's, explicit enhancement spots and sections, and implicit

enhancements.

1. Experience with forms including SAP Adobe forms.

2. Experience with SAP Workflow.

3. Experience with ABAP Test Cockpit and/or Code inspector as well as

performing Quality Assurance and Code reviews.

1. Demonstrated experience in the SAP Modules FI, CO, FM, GM, TRM, MM

and SD. Experience with RE, PM and HCM considered an asset.