Senior Specialist Development

Job Description

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, youll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. Youll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, youll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.SAP S4/HANA ABAP DeveloperRole Summary:The Corporate Applications Services (CAS) IT team is looking for an SAP S4/HANA ABAP DeveloperWith strong analytical skills and expertise in SAP S4/HANA development to take part in the SAP S/4 and BW/4 HANA implementation project and become a member of the SunLife SAP COE Center of Excellence team going forward.The person in this role will be designing, developing implementing and maintaining RICEFW objects utilizing SAP S4/HANA technologies including but not limited to ABAP/4, Fiori and CDS.The role will work with business analysts, designers, architects, business partners and project management to understand the requirements, and design reporting solutions that meet the business needs.Within the operations support component of the role, you will be responding to incidents, service requests, problem solving, maintaining stability, performing technical implementations, coordinate activities and work together with the team members and vendors to maintain, enhance and customize the supported systems and componentsMain accountabilities:

• Development of SAP RICEFW objects in accordance to the user requirement and unit-test/deliver as per the project plan.
• Provide estimates and contribute to defining timelines and project plans
• Support requirements gathering of the end-to-end solution development for Fiori, S4/HANA embedded reporting and Group Reporting.
• Assist the functional project team with draft of functional specifications for Standard FIORI, S4/HANA data models and views.
• Provide the functional team with the necessary guidance of the SAP-provided enhancements (implicit and explicit ones)
• Work on change and service requests as well as defect fixes across the AP, FA, GL, and integration modules
• Performance tracing and optimization (for the existing RICE objects)
• Work with project management to document and communicate risks and issues.
• Work with onshore, offshore and 3rd party development teams to ensure coding, testing, debugging and implementation activities are completed as required
• Ensure alignment to Sun Life SDLC and internal standards and compliance
• Transition projects and enhancements to Operations
• Support our operational team as needed with problem analysis, resolution, escalation and reporting
• Collaborate closely with our internal teams (e.g. data architects, designers, business to business, business intelligence/reporting, server management, etc.) to deliver solutions for business needs.

Core competencies:

• Strong ability to work independently with a bias toward action and results
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to assess situations/problems systematically and deliver effective right-sized solutions in a timely manner
• Excellent organizing, planning and time management skills with the ability to multi-task
• Ability to learn quickly and ramp up on new technologies, systems and business concepts
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience writing technical documentation that articulates the design of the reporting solution

Qualifications/Skills:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education, training or work experience
• Proficient in the development of RICEFW deliverables (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms)
• 5+ years experience with ABAP, preferably 7.4+ (including Object-Oriented ABAP, New Enhancement Framework, OData services, SAP Workflow etc.)
• 5+ years experience with RICEFW objects in SAP
• 2+ years experience with SAP FIORI and UI5 technologies (Basic FLP configuration, standard apps activation, UI5 applications architecture, basic JavaScript, Front End debugging)
• Prior experience with SAP FI/CO or Group Reporting solution, as well as business knowledge in the areas related to accounting, controlling, planning or general Finance
• Expertise in system integration, job flows relative to data integration
• Experience working with large volumes of transactional data
• Familiarity with SAP authorization concept
• Experience with developing SAP S4/HANA CDS Views
• Working knowledge of relational and OLAP databases
• Experience with SDLC methodologies: Agile, Waterfall
• Experience working with application vendors and building solutions involving integrating vendor applications into existing environment.
• Experience with creating effective design documentation and diagrams

Other relevant assets:

• Certification: SAP Certified Development Associate ABAP and/or HANA

• Experience with SAP Group Reporting tool

• Experience with SAP AIF
• Experience with SAP NetWeaver Application Server (understanding of the Basis components and how they interact)
• Familiar with SAP Data Migration tools - LSMW and LTMC
• Familiar with SAP Design Studio reporting
• Familiar with Solution Manager, CHARM

• Familiar with SAP AFO tools (Analysis For Office)
• Familiar with SAP Business Warehouse (BW), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

• Familiar with DevOps Tools (Git, BitBucket, Gradle, Jenkins)
• Familiar with AWS (Amazon Web Services) IaaS platform
• Knowledge/experience with Linux systems
• Knowledge/experience with scripting languages (e.g. bash, Windows scripting, Powershell)
• Experience working with geographically distributed and third-party development teams

Notes / unique requirements:

• Eligible or RCMP (Government Data) clearance
• Occasional work outside of normal business hours as part of a global team
• Occasional weekend work in support of project delivery and implementations
• Occasional travel may be required depending on work assignments

Job Category:IT - Application DevelopmentPosting End Date:05/07/2023

Keyskills :
PowershellWaterfallBitbucketAbapFioriSdlcJenkinsGitGradleLinuxWindows ScriptingAgileBashSap WorkflowAWSSAP S4/HANACDS