Job Title: SAP ABAP Development Specialist
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 6 Months
SAP ABAP Developer
Description of Assignment
The Financial Systems Transformation Project (FSTP) is intended to transform the Client’s 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. This project went live on the 24 November. The role will include hands-on development during hypercare and sustainment 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 a minimum of 3 in-person days at the Metro Hall location (55 John Street, Toronto). The successful candidate will be working seven (7) hours per day, five (5) days per week based on normal working Business Hours.
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 the Client and 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.
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.
2. 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.
3. Experience performing and managing the full SDLC for development deliverables including the preparation of comprehensive documentation and knowledge transfer.
4. Experience providing input and subject matter expertise during requirements gathering, design and functional specification preparation as well as providing feedback during functional specification review.
5. 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.
6. 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).
7. 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.
3. Experience with the Gateway Service Builder (SEGW), Core Data Services (CDS) and ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP).
4. Fiori application development experience. Business Application Studio (BAS) and Gitlab experience are considered assets.
5. Experience creating reports using various techniques including Embedded Analytics and/or SAP Analytics Cloud.
6. Experience implementing enhancements including BADi’s, Customer Exits, BTE’s, explicit enhancement spots and sections, and implicit enhancements.
7. Experience with forms including SAP Adobe forms.
8. Experience with SAP Workflow.
9. Experience with ABAP Test Cockpit and/or Code inspector as well as performing Quality Assurance and Code reviews.
10. Demonstrated experience in the SAP Modules FI, CO, FM, GM, TRM, MM and SD. Experience with RE, PM and HCM considered an asset.
Deliverables
1. Documented Functional specification review feedback.
2. Technical Specifications and documented technical unit testing for all development objects.
3. Run procedures for all development objects.
4. Documentation to support knowledge transfer for all development objects.
5. Documentation and presentations to assist with mentoring, coaching and knowledge sharing.
6. Status updates on development objects.
7. Build of objects in the respective system.
8. Design and documentation of processes and procedures required to sustain development objects within operations.
9. Updated documentation of development objects resulting as part of defect remediation process.
10. Review feedback for documentation provided by the system integrator.
11. Configuration of ABAP Test Cockpit and/or Code inspector as well as Code and QA review feedback using the templates provided.
The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$80.00 and CA$100.00
Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.
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