A Senior Consultant is an individual who participate s in implementation/upgrade/support projects and deliver them either from remote or Onsite. Th e Senior Consultant focuses on ABAP development objects and coordinates with remote development team. Further, the Senior Consultant would be liaising w ith Project Manager for tracking and implementation of projects .

Responsibilities:

Understand the values and vision of the organization and align the activities accordingly

Protect the Intellectual Property

Adhere to all the policies and procedures

Work with other line functions to collect or provide relevant data

Ability to set up the development guidelines and methodologies

Support the onsite consulting team of experts for all relevant aspects of development work and coordination with remote development teams

Participate in practice initiatives, showing innovation, sharing knowledge and enhancing reusability

Prepare the Technical Specification, build the code, review the code and finally to prepare the Unit Test Cases and conduct technical research for an optimal solution

ABAP code modification for BDC, interface program, report, module pool arising out of non- discretionary services

Optimize custom developed programs for minimizing resource utilization and run times

Develop/Update Technical Documentation with respect to functional requirements/ Specifications as per prescribed format

Test specific objects as and when initiatives such as Migration to Higher version Hot Packs, Version Upgrades and the like are taken

Develop and maintain appropriate documentation for knowledge management

Provide Bug fixes as and when reported within the agreed time frames and Quality standards

Assist with queries relating to Reports, interfaces, enhancements, ALE/IDoc, Conversions, forms, Adobe forms, ABAP workflow, Webdynpro etc.

Work with Functional team to assess operational & quality related issues, identify gaps, and manage closure of gaps, including effective Error Trend Analysis and Problem Management

Provide proposal for ABAP redesign for performance improvement / tuning of ABAP objects as appropriate

Ensure appropriate assessment of SAP OSS notes regarding relevance for ABAP Operations

Should have strong hands-on knowledge in ABAP technologies i.e. Interactive Reporting, Dialog Programming, BAPI, RFC, SAP Scripts, Smartforms, ALE/IDocs, Interface Programming, BDC, Workflow and Data Conversions

Support business implementations by sharing best practice development skills

Working closely with our SAP Functional Specialists to deliver, maintain and troubleshoot and enhance SAP functionality

Essential Skills

Job:

Excellent communication skills are essential

Should be organized and focused on delivering research tasks within defined deadlines

Must be dynamic, flexible and possess perseverance skills

Excellent coding skills are essential

Proficiency in customer relationship management is essential

Expertise on SAP Technologies like Webdynpro, Adobe forms

Must be proficient in ABAP ticket analysis

Capable of performing technical activities beyond coding

Capable of building trust and acting as trusted adviser to the customer

Ablility to manage customer expectations and avoid any escalations

Ability to comprehend and envisage appropriate actions

Exhibit reactiveness and constructiveness at work such as, suggesting innovative but pragmatic solutions

Utilize secondary research sources and techniques

Personal:

Should have understanding of business objectives and organization structure

The candidate must have strong work ethics, trustworthiness and self-confidence

The candidate should work accurately with good attention to detail by maintaining confidentiality and integrity

Must be highly collaborative and team oriented with commitment to excellence

Ability to work under pressure to achieve the multiple daily deadlines for client deliverables, with a mature approach

Preferred Skills

Job:

The candidate should have an expertise in problem solving

Self-motivated, fast learner with the ability to operate independently

Must have proven track record of impacting results throughout career

Ability to thrive in a cross-functional team on business critical projects

The candidate must be a highly versatile thinker who can assimilate knowledge and has understanding across different industries, products, technologies, disciplines etc.

Personal:

Demonstrate proactive thinking

Negotiation and persuasion skills are required to work with partners and implement changes

Should have strong interpersonal relations, expert business acumen and mentoring skills

Have the ability to work under stringent deadlines and demanding client conditions.

About the Practice:Answerthink, a division of The Hackett Group, is a certified SAP Platinum Partner that develops and offers qualified SAP® Business All-in-One solutions, as well as SAP application management services, training, support, analytics, mobility, cloud offerings and SAP HANA® platform. By leveraging The Hackett Group’s leading repository of enterprise best practices, strategies and metrics, Answerthink helps customers improve performance and maximize returns on investments in SAP software.

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