AVI Limited Senior SAP Technical Developer Jobs in South Africa
Job Description
AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands! Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our brands span a range of categories including hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, out-of-home ranges, personal care products, cosmetics, footwear, accessories, and fashion apparel.
We have a well-developed Shared Services structure spanning: International, IT, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Procurement and Field Marketing, which allows us to take advantage of our scale. Our single-minded purpose is our brands’ growth and development.
An exciting opportunity exists for a SENIOR SAP TECHNICAL DEVELOPER at IT Shared Services Division in Waterfront, Cape Town or Bryanston, Johannesburg.
The purpose of the role is to design, build, test, implementation and on-going maintenance of SAP ERP-related solutions, including enhancements to SAP standard functionality, custom add-ons to a SAP ERP instance, integration technology and mobile and web-based front-ends to carry out existing SAP functionality. Mentor junior members of team, carry out complex development.
Key Performance Areas:
Interaction with Users
Communicate with users in the business units at all levels, up to and including executive level
Purpose of communication is on the following levels:
To understand a business process from a user perspective, to understand the procedures followed, the nature of interaction between the users and their customers and the system, and thus to identify gaps in their process, pain-points and bottle-necks that can be closed off with the introduction of a mobile application.
This can involve the modification of a current business process, or the introduction of an entire new process.
To identify, propose, explain and get agreement on a high-level user interface design, and also the design of how the app interacts with back-end ERP functionality.
A collaborative approach, using an Agile methodology is applied here, and the design/build phases do not necessarily follow a waterfall flow sequence, but will frequently iterate.
To facilitate, expedite and guide user testing without allowing for scope creep.
To provide training material and conduct user training where necessary
Interaction functional consultants
Obtain thorough understanding of current system-level processes
Through a collaborative approach, to arrive at an interaction design whereby mobile apps interact with the back-end ERP system process in a manner that adheres to standard best-practices, with a minimum of customisation.
To collaboratively conduct tests of back-end integration, to ensure that transactional data is captured correctly
Trouble-shoot and debug issues on existing solutions
Top-down binary elimination of possible causes approach
Build solutions in ERP system, PI, GRC and mobility environment
Programming and configuring solutions using best-practice and AVI policy
Test and ensure excellence of solutions delivered
Detailed pre-design of test plans that include methods to prove that ALL new requirements are met
Test plans that ensure that ALL existing functionality is not affected
Document (both user and technical) solutions delivered
Word, Adobe and SAP tools
In-line documentation
Research, recommend and document new best practices
Theoretical knowledge, imagination, and the ability to engage with a broader international IT community
Minimum Requirements:
Experience:
8 years’ experience working as a SAP Technical Developer
5 years working knowledge of SAP back-end modules and processes (including HR, FI, MM, SD, PM)
5 years working knowledge of ABAP, including OO, Function Modules, ALE/Idocs, Dynpro, Reports, Forms, the SAP Enhancement Framework and SAP Workflow
Previous experience in SAP HANA S4 would be highly advantageous
Qualifications:
Relevant Tertiary Qualification
Additional Requirements:
Knowledge of “Standard” Web Technologies (HTML5, Javascript, the DOM (Document Object Model) IE, Chrome, and how to make use of the Consoles and debugging tools within the various browsers)
Knowledge of ERP concepts
Knowledge of User Experience Theory
Non-ERP SAP Systems (PORTAL/GRC/SOLMAN/PO)
Object-oriented programming concepts
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; AVI Limited Senior SAP Technical Developer Jobs in South Africa
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