Job Description

Closing Date: 2025-07-10
Job Type: Contract
Job Level: Senior
Experience: Between 5 - 7 Years
EE/AA: No
Summary
Our client in Pretoria, is recruiting for a SAP ABAP Developer - (Hana, UI5 & Fiori) to join their team on a long term contract.
Description

• Based on a strong technical ABAP background, play a technical solution architect role for all change requests.
• Mediate between developers and functional team members and will engage directly with product owner(s) and external partner feature team(s) for the respective projects/maintenance/operations requirements.
• Technical oversight of developments on SAP systems that run global business processes spanning the supply, warehouse logistics and sales of automotive parts.
• Technical tasks will include, but not limited to:

• Reviewing proposed solutions and code changes, based on learned knowledge of existing system design and Global Development Guidelines.
• Making sure the development solution will align with the current technical functions of the system and will fit the overall architecture.
• Reviewing and approving the technical specifications.
• Reviewing development, checking code quality against company standards.
• Reconfirming during the code review that the completed development meets the original requirement, as explained by the functional expert.
• Development will also be required, where the above tasks will be conducted by peers.
• The following will also be expected:

• Reviewing & approving the functional specifications, make sure that it is complete, understandable and logically consistent from a development point of view.
• Attending f all team meetings, including Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning meetings etc.
• Understanding the release management process and keeping track of the release schedule.
• Endeavour to understand the SAP system landscape and be abreast of what changes are planned and how they will affect topics planned over a release.
• G-live preparation and post Go-live support.
• Receiving, troubleshooting, resolving, and closing Operational and Maintenance tickets within defined SLA's (Service Level Agreements).
• Interact with consultants of other modules.
• Taking a proactive approach in the software development process.
• Go-Live preparation and post Go-Live Support
• Change Management - Manage changes and present to relevant CAB
• Interaction with clients through meetings, calls and emails.
• Receiving, troubleshooting, resolving, and closing operational and maintenance tickets within SLA's
• Update and maintain documentation as an existing system's functionality is changed.
• Taking a proactive approach in the software development/design process
• Execution according to the Agile Methodology and attending of all team meetings, including Stand ups, Sprint Review, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Planning meetings etc.

• 5-8 years of DevOps (Operations, configuration/development) experience in commercial/and/or retail end user IT applications
• Strong ABAP Development skills including but not limited to:

• Proven track record as a competent ABAP programmer.
• Good knowledge of Object Orientated Design Paradigms.
• Test Driven Development Methodologies and how to make new and existing code testable.
• Very strong understanding of optimized data retrieval and code performance techniques.
• Good understanding of the Agile methodology.
• Confluence and JIRA.
• SAP Slution Manager exposure.
• Modern ABAP understanding (advantageous).
• SAP MM, APO exposure (advantageous).
• SAP S/4 HANA (advantageous).

• Experience in the following modules.

• SAP ABAP, UI5, SAP Fiori, S4Hana
• SAP ABAP Certification
• 6+ years of practical experience (relevant projects)
• Functional exposure to SAP logistics and planning modules
• Problem Solving capabilities.
• Ability to work as part of a team with the Agile Working Methodology.
• Strong ability to understand and interpret business needs and requirements with an aptitude to create technical concepts from proposal to successful implementation.