SAP PO CONSULTANT

Position: SAP PO Technical Delivery Specialist

Employment Type: FTC

Location (onsite): 1st preference is Calgary and 2nd preference is Toronto

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION: As a Technical Delivery Specialist within the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) team of Information Services, you will play a key role in providing services that support the delivery of Application-to-Application and Business-to-business solutions;

• Design, Plan, Build and maintain interfaces using SAP Process Orchestration (PO);
• Maintain a strong knowledge and understanding of EAI services and how they pertain to the delivery of our PO services.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Work with development teams from project initiation through to production implementation in a consultative role, representing both EAI and PO;
• Provide status updates on assigned project deliverables;
• Work with application support teams to ensure PO environment availability through effective proactive monitoring and prevention to avoid unplanned outages;
• Ensure SAP PO application failures are handled effectively and resolved in a timely fashion. Analyze dumps, traces, and logs in order to determine root cause of specific problems;
• Manage stakeholder expectations to ensure level of service is understood;
• Identify and prioritize enhancements to existing SAP PO interfaces and ensure execution per plan;
• Work with EAI team members to determine best value service improvement opportunities. Actively seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction;
• Deliver on chosen improvement opportunities following established service development best practices;
• Ability to define, document, implement, and operate repeatable, well purposed processes;
• Coordinate diverse groups who contribute to the SAP PO environment and build consensus for requirements across the various IS groups;
• Identify assumptions, constraints, and anticipate and manage risks;
• Liaise with architecture to ensure PO functional and non-functional requirements are considered (i.e. security, compatibility and maintainability).

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• University Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Science, Commerce/Business Administration or equivalent practical experience;
• 7+ years of pure SAP PO experience with increasing degrees of responsibility
• Proven strong communication skills – both written and oral – with technical and non-technical staff and with management;
• Expertise in facilitation, negotiation, gaining consensus and managing conflict of diverse stakeholder groups;
• Understand and manage change in working environment;
• Appreciation and understanding of how to deal with different cultural values and sensitivities and how to work in a virtual work environment;
• Comprehension of Enterprise Application Integration principles and practices;
• Strong organizational and time management skills. Work effectively in ambiguous or stressful situations;
• Stay current with industry directions and technology capabilities;
• Develop relationships with business partners internally and externally to foster a consistent and outstanding business partner experience;
• Interact effectively with various levels of the organization;
• Ability to work both in an independent or a highly interactive team situation;
• Ability to independently research and learn new skills to solve challenging problems;
• Experience in SAP Process Orchestration 7.5;
• Experience in System Landscape Directory (SLD);
• Experience in NetWeaver Administrator (NWA);
• Hands-on experience in Interface Design & Configuration using SAP-PO;
• Hands-on experience in ABAP, JAVA & XSLT;
• Strong Graphical Mapping skills;
• Experience with SAP-PO Advance Adapter Engine;
• Hands-on experience in developing & configuring Adapter Module;
• Experience with SAP-PO Alert Management;
• Experience with SAP PO directory APIs and other standard system APIs
• Hand-on experience in defining & configuring adapters such as File, JMS, JDBC, SOAP, SFTP, REST, oData etc.;
• Experience with AWS messaging standards, such S3 and SQS;
• ;Hand-on experience in developing Proxy;
• Experience in defining High Availability of SAP-PO systems, Message Security etc.;
• Experience with developing B2B scenarios using SAP PO B2B Toolkit.
• Experience with API Development and its standards;

Asset to have:

• Fundamental knowledge of railway operations and processes;
• Experience in non-SAP EAI tools and their integration with SAP-PO;
• Experience in SAP ASAP methodology;
• Experience in PO and AIF integration and reporting;
• Experience in NetWeaver BPM and BRM;
• Experience with developing e-SOA applications using SAP-PO and other SAP components;
• Experience with SAP best practices for Design & Configuration;
• Experience with SAP-PO industry adapters.
• Experience with Java Proxy;
• Basic Administration experience in SAP PO;
• Experience with third-party adapters;
• Hands-on experience in Boomi;
• Hands-on experience in MuleSoft;
• Hands-on experience in IBM API Connect;