Team Lead/Senior Consultant- SAP ABAP US Projects

A Consultant is an individual who participates in implementation/upgrade/support projects and delivers them either remotely or onsite. The Consultant focuses on ABAP development objects and coordinates with the remote development team. Further, the Consultant would be liaising with the Project Manager for tracking and implementation of projects.

Responsibilities

• Understand the values and vision of the organization and align the activities accordingly.
• Protect the Intellectual Property.
• Adhere to all the policies and procedures.
• Work with other line functions to collect or provide relevant data.
• Ability to coordinate and interact with multiple teams.
• Support business implementations by sharing best practice development skills.
• Ability to set up the development guidelines and methodologies.
• Support the onsite consulting team of experts for all relevant aspects of development work and coordination with remote development teams.
• Capable of performing technical activities beyond coding.
• Capable of building trust and acting as a trusted adviser to the customer.
• Able to manage customer expectations and avoid any escalations.
• Ability to comprehend and envisage appropriate actions.
• Participate in practice initiatives, showing innovation, sharing knowledge, and enhancing reusability.
• Prepare the Technical Specification, build the code, review the code, and prepare the Unit Test Cases.
• Conduct technical research for an optimal solution.
• Help with queries relating to Reports, interfaces, enhancements, ALE/IDoc, Conversions, forms, Adobe forms, ABAP workflow, Web Dynpro, etc.
• Work with the Functional team to assess operational & quality-related issues, identify gaps, and manage closure of gaps, including effective Error Trend Analysis and Problem Management.
• Propose ABAP redesign for performance improvement/tuning of ABAP objects as appropriate.
• Ensure appropriate assessment of SAP OSS notes regarding relevance for ABAP Operations.
• Work closely with SAP Functional Specialists to deliver, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance SAP functionality.

Essential Skills

Job

• Excellent communication skills are essential.
• Should be organized and focused on delivering research tasks within defined deadlines.
• Must be dynamic, flexible, and possess perseverance skills.
• Excellent coding skills are essential.
• Knowledge of SAP Technologies like Web Dynpro, Adobe forms is essential.
• Experience with RAP (RESTful Application Programming model).
• Proficiency in customer relationship management is essential.
• Must have proficiency in ABAP ticket analysis.

Personal

• Should understand business objectives and organization structure.
• Strong work ethics, trustworthiness, and self-confidence.
• Accuracy with attention to detail, maintaining confidentiality and integrity.
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented with a commitment to excellence.
• Ability to work under pressure to achieve multiple daily deadlines with a mature approach.

Preferred Skills

Job

• Good problem-solving approach.
• Self-motivated, fast learner with the ability to operate independently.
• Ability to thrive in a cross-functional team on business-critical projects.
• SAP Certification is preferable.
• Expert knowledge in ABAP technologies, including Interactive Reporting, Dialog Programming, BAPI, RFC, SAP Scripts, Smartforms, ALE/IDocs, Interface Programming, BDC, Workflow, and Data Conversions.

Personal

• Proactive thinking.
• Negotiation and persuasion skills to work with partners and implement changes.
• Ability to work under stringent deadlines and demanding client conditions.
• Strong interpersonal relations and business acumen.