SAP ABAP Consultant

Description : Focusing on developing and maintaining ABAP programs, collaborating with functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions, debugging, performance tuning, and ensuring quality through code reviews and testing, often involving reports, interfaces, BAPIs, and enhancements within various SAP modules like MM, SD, or FI.

Core Responsibilities :

- Development : Create and modify ABAP programs, reports, interfaces, enhancements, user exits, BAPIs, and BADIs.

- Collaboration : Work with functional consultants and business users to gather requirements and design solutions.

- Maintenance : Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues in existing SAP systems.

- Optimization : Tune applications for performance, speed, and scalability.

- Documentation : Create and maintain technical specifications and documentation for developed solutions.

- Testing : Perform unit testing and code reviews.

- Support project development needs, in particular within work streams of Matters Management and Finance, relative to Professional Services Implementation of SAP S4/HANA

- Participate with customer business and functional team in design workshops / requirements gathering

- Work with functional and other teams to understand business requirements and translate into technical specifications and solutions in accordance with client standards and architecture

- Ability to design and develop EDI standards and EDI/IDOC data mapping

- Track and fully document change to ensure that issue logs are clearly documented and articulated

- Perform end user training internal cross training to other team members as necessary

- Understand user and process requirements and ensure those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables within the SAP landscape

- Design, code and correct large and/or complex programs and program modifications as custom development, or within an existing application

- Understand which requirements can be achieved through customizing, system development or enhancements

- Define test cases and run unit tests on developed, or modified system changes

Key Skills & Qualifications :

- Proficiency in ABAP programming, Object-Oriented ABAP (ABAP Objects).

- Strong understanding of SAP architecture and integration technologies (IDoc, RFC).

- Experience with specific SAP modules (FI, CO, MM, SD, HR, etc.).

- Familiarity with SAP development tools (ABAP Workbench) and techniques (enhancements, user exits).

- Problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

- Bachelor's degree in a related field (CS, IT).

- Common Deliverables

- Custom reports, data conversions, interfaces.

- Business Process customizations.

- Workflow developments.

- OData services (for modern SAP systems).