SAP Sr. Technical Developer

Job Summary: The senior technical developer is responsible for guiding the overall design, developing standards and the day-to-day development of new code within their area of expertise. This includes, but is not limited to, working with the functional and processes, analyzing program requirements, development of requirements, supporting off shore development efforts and the completion of test plans. The current environment consists of ECC, SCM, CRM, GTS, BW, XI, Solution Manager and EP.

Essential Functions: • Participating with the design teams, business stakeholders and architecture groups to develop solution roadmaps to support St. Jude Medical’s business innovation and growth • Collaborate with the design team on developing a strategy for introducing new technical features within your area of expertise. • Responsible for providing technical leadership in area of domain expertise. • Responsible for working with the team members to develop standards and best practices for implementing and supporting new development and technologies. • Responsible for developing and overseeing the development of technical solutions to meet business requirements. • Work as a key project resource taking day-to-day work direction and accepting accountability for technical aspects of development, including guiding and auditing the work of contract resources



Required: • Bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field; • 6 years minimum of IT related experience or the equivalent combination of education and experience. • 5+ years of related development/project experience. • 5+ years of SAP based development including high level of ABAP development expertise. • Demonstrated success in utilizing new SAP development technologies to deliver valuable business solutions • Demonstrated technical and leadership experience of a development group and/or project • Experience and understanding of software engineering concepts such as OOAD. • Ability to translate client requirements into a feasible design solution. • Demonstrated experience working on large projects in a team environment. • Ability to multi-task efficiently on parallel efforts (customer issues, prototyping/architecture, implementation etc). • Able to independently tackle complex assignments with significant initial ambiguity. • Solid understanding of relational databases and database design fundamentals, with experience in Oracle preferred. • At lease 2 years of experience developing solutions on one of the following SAP applications: o CRM development with an emphasis in at least one of the following areas: ? Internet Pricing Configuration ? Variant Configuration Sales Orders ? Middleware and replication ? Custom IBase development o Exchange Infrastructure with an emphasis in at least one of the following areas: ? Realtime inbound and outbound interfaces ? SLD setup and administration ? CMS setup and administration ? Developing custom BPM applications o Enterprise Portal with an emphasis in at least one of the following areas: ? Development using Webdynpro for Java ? Development of applications utilizing CAF ? Object based navigation ? Tag libraries and theme modifications ? User Interaction design • Ability to travel on occasion.

Desired: • Experience in SAP development using ALE/IDOC, RFC, DYNPRO. • Broad understanding of Web technologies: Java, JSP, Servlets, HTML, JavaScript, XML. • Experience and/training in user interaction design. • Experience with developing applications utilizing SAP’s Netweaver Developer Studio or the Composition environment. • Experience working with an off-shore development team. • Java development experience.