SAP Developer Job Description

SAP Developer Job Description

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SAP developer provides optimization, enhancement and O&M support for ABAP/Non-ABAP applications which perform financial and business management functions in SAP (ECC, HR/HCM, SuccessFactor etc.) instances and external systems.

SAP Developer Duties & Responsibilities

To write an effective SAP developer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included SAP developer job description templates that you can modify and use.

Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Work with functional team members to understand business requirements and build quality technical solutions
Report in to the International ABAP development lead
Provide technical guidance to the team to ensure performance counters have been installed on the servers and on the health check report generation
Review the healthcheck report and identify the discrepancies (utilization)
Analyze the system logs and application usage, if required
In case of any discrepancy, perform rootcause analysis and resolve the discrepancy
Provide technical guidance to the team to identify the specific parameters (disk usage, performance metrics ) to be monitored based on the client requirement
Validate the identified parameters and seek signoff from the customer on the same
Identify the threshold/ benchmark values for those parameters
In collaboration with the client, finalize the threshold and map these requirements to the specific metrics

SAP Developer Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for SAP Developer

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SAP, ABAP, ITIL, HANA, R/3, BW, BI, PMI, ECC, FTPS

Education for SAP Developer

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the SAP developer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business, Science, Education, Technology, Mathematics

Skills for SAP Developer

Desired skills for SAP developer include:

Technology deployed in the business area
ABAP Objects
ABAP Dictionary
ABAP Reports
ABAP online transactions
ALE development and maintenance
BAPIs
Batch programming
Function modules and other development objects
Global classes

Desired experience for SAP developer includes:

Ability to troubleshoot performance problems with SAP Business Objects software such as Web Intelligence, Universes, Crystal Reports, and BOBJ server
SAP BPC experience is a Plus
Ability to resolve time sensitive issues in a fast paced production environment while maintaining strong internal and external customer relationships
Experience with SAP financial modules including GL, BPC and A/P is required
Must possess the ability to contribute to the development of new processes, effectively identify, analyze and resolve highly complex technical issues
On call for critical deployments and escalation point for high-priority system incidents

SAP Developer Examples

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SAP Developer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of SAP developer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for SAP developer
  • Coordinate with the vendors to understand the tool, if required
  • Provide technical guidance to the senior administrator to conduct the POC to define pros and con and costbenefit analysis of the tools
  • In collaboration with the client, finalize the tool
  • Provide technical guidance to the team to install and configure the tool
  • Review the performance of the tool and provide recommendation to the client
  • In case of critical escalation, provide technical guidance to the team to resolve the same
  • Database/ tool Administration New patches administration
  • Understand the environment requirement
  • Provide recommendation to the client in terms of the hardware requirement
  • Review the capacity planning defined by SrAdministrator
Qualifications for SAP developer
  • Gather requirements from the client in terms of application/ systems
  • Review the recommendation ( in terms of version , clustering and system configuration) proposed to the client on the basis of the requirement analysis
  • Post architecture finalization, recommend/ review the prerequisites and share it with the customer
  • Validate the prerequisites with the client
  • Guide the team in setting up the environment
  • Provide technical guidance to the team to dispatch new patches in the testing environment
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SAP Developer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a SAP developer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for SAP developer
  • Database/ tool Administration New upgrade/ new version/ New tool administration
  • Based on the analysis of client pain points (new features etc), provide/ review recommendation to the client to upgrade the system
  • Define the requirements to upgrade the environment, if required
  • In collaboration with vendor, identify the ways to optimize the system upgrades/ environment ready
  • Seek inputs from the client to create project plan for system upgrades
  • Create the project plan and finalize the schedule and timelines
  • Seek signoff from the client on the same
  • Based on the inputs from the client, identify the authorized and unauthorized user access guidelines based on the specification document
  • Based on the requirement, review the defined security matrix
  • Create the security frameworks ( data security and user access security)
Qualifications for SAP developer
  • Provide technical guidance to the team to design roles, permissions and privileges and profiles for application security based on business processes
  • Provide technical guidance to the team to configure secured environment to ensure the security as per the requirement
  • Provide technical guidance to the team to map the user ids to the roles
  • Analyses the security logs to identify any unauthorized/ authorize user access
  • For existing engagement/ databases
  • Understand customer's business and key performance divers
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SAP Developer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of SAP developer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for SAP developer
  • Analyze the health checkup of the system through monitoring tools
  • And seek out long term opportunities to provide inputs to the client for standardization in systems and processes
  • Provide technical guidance to the team to identify workloads, analyze the workload balance and forecast workload evolution, if required
  • Proactively analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks
  • Identify end use/applications performance problems and determine optimal performance settings
  • Support application team in resolution of application performance problems, if required
  • Review the HLD/ LLD design documents created by the architect to ensure high efficiency , if required
  • Provide support to team manager and other relevant stakeholders during new opportunity assessment/pursuit
  • Understand the client requirements shared by the delivery team
  • Understand client's hardware environment
Qualifications for SAP developer
  • Review/ Propose the solution to the client based on the client requirements and industry best practices
  • Review/ design estimate and share it with the delivery team
  • Conduct workshops at client site to assist in sales support, if required
  • Conduct demos of product/ solution to the customer, if required
  • Publishing white papers
  • Incubate new products/ tools/ concepts
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SAP Developer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of SAP developer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for SAP developer
  • Provide guidance to the team to create and update knowledge articles (industry Point of View, Case studies, lessons learnt document etc) in the knowledge management repository
  • Create knowledge articles on the complex problem, workaround solutions
  • Share the best practices with the team
  • Assist the functional team in designing interfaces
  • Configure and develop PI/PO (Process Integration / Process Orchestration) interfaces using various adapters
  • Develop ABAP proxies
  • Configure and develop process modelling in BPM
  • Configure and monitor PI alerts in Solution Manager
  • Transport management using CTS+
  • Assist the Basis Team on Netweaver Administration for PI
Qualifications for SAP developer
  • Able to teach and share technical knowledge
  • Able to solve problems, both technically and operationally, in a timely manner
  • Working knowledge of the new dimension products, such as SRM, BW, EP
  • Establish PI Connectivity with various Application Systems like ECC, CRM and 3rd parties
  • Complete thorough unit testing to validate that the development meets the business and technical requirements
  • Responsible for programming development interface objects across several projects, support or complex enhancements
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SAP Developer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of SAP developer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for SAP developer
  • Assist with on-going application sustaining activities
  • Creating and exposing SAP web services through SAP PI
  • ABAP new development and defect fixing
  • Monitor all technical PI instances, services and applications
  • Configuration of web services for SAP PI system according to best practices
  • Providing stellar end-user support by achieving impeccable service levels and maintaining strong relationships through incident resolution, request prioritization and delivery
  • Escalating process change requests, system enhancements or any other related requests through relevant mechanisms for approval / prioritization
  • Design, develop
  • Provides production support to nightly batch processing
  • Perform solution development for respective Workflow objects
Qualifications for SAP developer
  • Minimum 7 years of hands-on PI/PO development experience
  • Experience in integrating PI with SAP Application systems using ABAP proxies, IDOCs, RFCs, SOAP web services, REST web services
  • Experience in design and developing integrations within PI/PO, SLD, Integration repository, Integration Directory and Monitoring
  • Experience with SAP NWA to trace and log errors
  • Experience in PI/PO transports using CTS+
  • Able to design and develop complex integration scenarios

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