SAP Technical Lead

SAP Technical Lead

Location: Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa

Reporting: Global SAP Support Manager

Function: Global Information Systems (Copper)

JOB PURPOSE:

The SAP Technical Lead will be responsible for leading and managing a team of SAP technical professionals to ensure the successful implementation, configuration, and maintenance of SAP S/4 solutions. The technical lead is a key advisor to functional leads/consultants, business process owners and project teams, assessing and articulating effects of solutions on existing technology landscape and identifying scalability and performance impacts.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

Internal:

Information systems PMO, functional and technical resources
Global business process owners
Group IT (Infrastructure, InfoSec, Basis)
Subject matter experts
Senior operations managers

External:

Systems integrators
Other third-party service providers
Consultants

PRIMARY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Play a pivotal role in building the technology roadmap, architecting strategies, policies and standards.
Responsible for authoring and maintaining systems documentation: systems landscape diagrams and solution maps across development, QA and production layers.
Lead integrations between internal enterprise platforms and external systems and services.
Advise on new technology opportunities, verifying continuous improvement of existing technologies, providing long-term stability and cost-effective sustainment of the entire landscape.
Ensure that communication flows horizontally to and from upstream and downstream processes and teams.

QUALIFICATIONS:

University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field.
SAP Certification.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

10+ years’ expert knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA and cross-functional integration points with SAP suite of products
8+ years’ knowledge of ABAP, Fiori UI5, Integration and Cloud Technologies
Strong problem solving and decision-making skills
Strong understanding of integration and build for SAP MM, FI-CO, EAM (PM), PS
Strong understanding of ABAP OO
Integration experience with SAP AIF using IDOCs, SOAP, RESTful APIs
Experience with ODATA and CDS development
Knowledge of BTP, including CPI
Understanding of SAP security including SAP GRC
Familiar with workflow design, implementation, and troubleshooting
Experience delivering SAP upgrades: SPAU and SPDD
Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders across the organization at all levels.
Global, cross-cultural work experience

COMPETENCIES:

Demonstrates expertise in developing, optimizing and maintaining complex, global systems landscapes
Anticipates technical risk and designs error/exception handling measures
Recognizes opportunities for re-use, reduction of dependencies and interactions between components
Understands the SDLC
Takes ownership of issue resolution
Promotes best practices and industry standards
Communicates effectively using plain language and analogies or examples to explain complex concepts to non-technical teams
Communicates a clear vision and objectives
Provides guidance and is adept at coaching other architects and technical specialists
Develops strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Performs well under pressure and can manage multiple priorities
Prefers self-direction
Partners across organizations to deliver outcomes through teamwork

Who we are

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.

With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.

Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.

Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.

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