What are the responsibilities and job description for the SAP ABAP Developer position at Wakefern Food Corp.?
About Company:
Wakefern Food Corp. is the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States and supports its co-operative members' retail operations, trading under the ShopRite®, Price Rite®, The Fresh Grocer®, Dearborn Markets®, and Gourmet Garage® banners.
Employing an innovative approach to wholesale business services, Wakefern focuses on helping the independent retailer compete in a big business world. Providing the tools entrepreneurs need to stay a step ahead of the competition, Wakefern’s co-operative members benefit from the company’s extensive portfolio of services, including innovative technology, private label development, and best-in-class procurement practices.
Responsibilities:
• Analyze and map business requirements, processes, and objectives to develop necessary product modifications.
• Understand client requirements, provide solutions and functional specifications, and implement technical components accordingly.
• Collaborate with the business and IT to analyze and define business requirements, processes, and objectives to scope projects and deliverables.
• Lead architecture discussions within IT and with Business and internal/external subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Assist in developing the overall project plan and individual work plans; act as a liaison with the business for troubleshooting and resolution.
• Implement, customize, and test solutions and develop specific enhancements to meet business requirements as needed.
• Facilitate communication between business and technology stakeholders to ensure desired business outcomes are met.
• Provide ongoing troubleshooting and support after go-live.
• Drive business value and successful outcomes by helping the business understand how to best leverage, implement, and sustain the solution.
• Provide thought leadership and resolution of complex issues in projects.
• Create Technical Design Documents (TDD) and Unit Test documents for the technical solutions being implemented.
Experience:
• Key qualifying experience in following: ABAP, HANA, Fiori.
• Minimum of 10 years development experience.
• Demonstrated experience in ABAP RICEFW: Forms (SAP Scripts / Smart Forms/Adobe Forms), Reports (ALV / Classical), Interfaces (ALE/IDOC, BAPI), Conversions (LSMW/BDC), Enhancements (User Exits, Dynpro, BADI, Enhancement Spots), Object Oriented ABAP.
• Experience w/ CDS, OData & AMDP
• Front End Development with SAPUI5, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery; Developing OData services using ABAP.
• Implementing Fiori Architecture that includes a full end to end deployment including Fiori apps.
• Experience defining software components/stacks, OS/DB/network requirements, security requirements for both Fiori Frontend and backend systems.
• Should be proficient in developing Enterprise System Repository (ESR) and Interface Registry (IR) objects, Graphical and Java mapping and proficient on XML Technologies.
• Ought to have done at least 3 SAP Implementations / Rollout projects.
• Familiarity on the basic business processes with any of the following Functional Areas: Financials and Logistics (OTC, P2P, IM, etc)
• Experience with integration to Oracle and other legacy systems using 3rd party adapters.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to present and discuss strategies and the technical information in a manner that establishes rapport, persuades others, and establishes an understanding for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Developing strategy; as well as writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting cogently; to and/or for all levels of audiences, internal staff, and management, such as presentation slides; change management plans and/or project plans; workshops and whitepapers; methodologies and tools; policies and procedures; and/or other standard business communications.
Other Qualifications and Competencies:
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a relevant field.
• Previous experience in a team lead role with a track record of providing mentorship and leadership.
• Proficiency in using SAP Process Orchestration (PI/PO) to design and develop Application to Application (A2A) and Business to Business (B2B) integrations.
• Familiarity with SAP BTP.
• Understanding of business processes in the Retail Industry.
• Knowledge of SAP Retail solution portfolio and product strategy.
• Understanding of SAP technologies, database platforms, and integration platforms.
• First-hand project experience within SAP S/4HANA is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of integration points between SAP CAR and POS applications.
