Sr Abap Technical Lead (Architect)

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

This position will be responsible for analyzing business processes, identifying areas for improvement, and designing solutions to enhance efficiency and productivity within AbbVie's processes in the SAP areas of Record of Report, Order to Cash, Purchase to Pay and Manufacturing. Ensure high quality solutions are designed and built that meet current and anticipated business needs. Responsibilities include partnering with functional architects and project management, provide guidance to offshore developers, drive effective issue management and effective communication with key stakeholders.

The candidate will be responsible for evaluating alternatives to satisfy functional needs and providing estimates.

In this role you'll be responsible for:

• Works closely with Process teams to understand business requirements and scope and to transform business system designs into bug-free application software.

• Creates technical designs, program code and unit test based on functional requirements, adhering to development, testing and documentation standards.

• applies experience and knowledge of different development options to evaluate alternatives and determine the optimal technical solution for business requirements.

• Understand AbbVie's SAP development framework, application architecture and technical architecture to create solutions that fit into the overall system landscape.

• Look and find performance optimization opportunities and redesign applications using code pushdown and new ABAP syntaxes.

• Develop programs with consideration of clean core and cloud ready approach for future compatible using new SAP ABAP tools and technologies.

• Displays an understanding of debugging techniques. Debugs code in technical area of expertise for functional and performance issues.

• Perform POC of SAP new BTP capabilities for business use cases and present it to leadership team to build application road maps.

• Available for critical issues during non-working hours as documented in team support schedule.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with 10+ years of experience, master's degree with 8+ years of experience

• Agile methodologies, scrum and kanban framework experiences

• Experience supporting deployments, including scoping, design, localization, testing, Go Live, and transition to AMS (Application Management Support).

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage and collaborate with contractors and internal stakeholders.

• Resources with 10+ years of experience, must have hands-on experience with ABAP Development, CDS view, OData services API, new S4 HANA ABAP syntaxes and API testing with POSTMAN.

• Well conversant with RICEFW developments and hands-on experience with SAP new UX - Fiori.

• Well experience with B2B and B2C integration with the SAP using APIs.

• Design, develop and support application solutions within S/4 HANA.

• Performance improvements by leveraging SAP code pushdown approach and using SAP standard Core Data Services ("CDS") and Advanced Business Application Programming ("ABAP") Managed Database Procedure ("AMDP")

• ABAP RESTful programing, SAP Classical and developer extensibilities

• SAP ALE/IDOC, BAPIs, Rest APIs and webservices

• SAP Adobe forms

Beneficial:

• Solid knowledge of SAP Fiori design principles, tools, and application development.

• Work experience in the pharma industry.

• Core S4 HANA process area (OTC, SCE, MFG, GTS, PTP and RTR) knowledge.

• good exposure to BTP

• SAP new extension methodologies

• SAP Associate Developer certification

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants