Snr SAP Technical Consultant

*Job Classification*
Job Req

Closing date - 22 October 2025

Job Family
Information Technology

Career Stream
Application Development

Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self Technical

Job Purpose
To apply specialisation Under minimal direction within SAP projects and technical expertise that meets customer business needs by interacting with stakeholders to define requirements and priorities. Performs systems analysis, solution design, develop, supports and maintains SAP system.

*Job Responsibilities*

• Preparing Architecture with complete analysis of the system connection, system authentication, requests, responses, logging etc.
• Liaise with the business / functional consultants and conduct JAD sessions to understand their requirements in order to inform solution designs.
• To have practical understanding of Agile practices and tooling such as Jira and Confluence.
• To have the ability to conduct unit, E2E and Regression testing as well as ensuring all technical specifications are documented in detail.
• Collaborate and share knowledge with the team.
• Implementation and Configuration: Overseeing the implementation and configuration of SAP CPI integrations, including adapter setup and managing different SAP modules and non-SAP systems.
• Performance Optimization: Identifying performance bottlenecks and providing tuning recommendations for SAP CPI processes to improve integration performance.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitoring CPI flows, proactively identifying issues, and troubleshooting errors in real-time to ensure smooth integration.
• Security Management: Ensuring security protocols are adhered to in CPI integrations, including certificate-based authentication, OAuth, and handling encrypted data transfers.
• Data Mapping and Transformation: Managing and optimizing complex data transformations using Groovy and message mapping for different scenarios.
• Documentation: Creating detailed technical documentation of integration flows, configurations, and best practices to ensure clear communication across teams.
• Groovy script and Message mapping
• Knowledge of SAP CPI Design Best practices, Error Handling Mechanism, SAP CPI Architecture
• API Management: Experience in integrating with SAP API Management and handling API Gateway configuration.
• Adapters Configuration: Expertise in configuring adapters such as SOAP, REST, SFTP, SuccessFactors, and IDOC.
• Performance Tuning and Optimization: Ability to identify performance bottlenecks in integration scenarios and optimize CPI flows.
• Version Control: Familiarity with version control for integration artifacts
• Transport: Experience with transport integration and continuous deployment using solution manager.
• Good understanding on the integration patterns, best practices, cloud, and on-premises application integration concepts
• Work on complex mapping transformation, resolving technical issues, adapter configurations.
• Security Integration: Knowledge of securing integration processes, including OAuth2, SAML, certificates, and tokens.

*Technical Knowledge Experience*

• SAP PI/PO (Process Integration/Orchestration)
• Cloud Integration with third-party systems
• OAuth and SAML for secure integrations
• SAP ABAP
• SAP Cloud System
• SAP Cloud Connector
• Node JS
• SQL database queries
• JMS Queue background
• SAP Cloud Connector
• SAP CAP (Cloud Application Programming)
• SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) - Cloud Foundry beneficial

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Diploma
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification
Bcom/IS/IT ENG/BSc/Com Science related degree

Preferred Certifications
Preferred certified in more than one SAP module /ASAP certification

Minimum Experience Level
5 years plus SAP Functional experience

*Technical / Professional Knowledge*

• Technical Proficiency
• Quality assurance
• Relevant project and process applications
• Troubleshooting

Behavioural Competencies

• Managing Work
• Building Customer Loyalty
• Decision Making
• Quality Orientation
• Continuous Learning
• Innovation

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team