SAP Technical Solutions Consultant

Job Classification

Job Req - 141672

Closing date - 17 October 2025

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self Leading Expert

Job Purpose

To apply specialisation within multiple SAP projects and support and technical expertise that meets customer business needs by interacting with stakeholders to define requirements and priorities. Performs systems analysis solution design develop supports and maintains SAP system. Drvies technical solution design system integration SAP architecture and landscape.

Job Responsibilities

• Preparing Architecture with complete analysis of the system connection system authentication requests responses logging etc
• Liaise with the business / functional consultants and conduct JAD sessions to understand their requirements in order to inform solution designs
• To have practical understanding of Agile practices and tooling such as Jira and Confluence
• To have the ability to conduct unit E2E and Regression testing as well as ensuring all technical specifications are documented in detail
• Collaborate and share knowledge with the team
• Implementation and Configuration: Overseeing the implementation and configuration of SAP CPI integrations including adapter setup and managing different SAP modules and non-SAP systems
• Performance Optimization: Identifying performance bottlenecks and providing tuning recommendations for SAP CPI processes to improve integration performance
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Monitoring CPI flows proactively identifying issues and troubleshooting errors in real-time to ensure smooth integration
• Security Management: Ensuring security protocols are adhered to in CPI integrations including certificate-based authentication OAuth and handling encrypted data transfers
• Data Mapping and Transformation: Managing and optimizing complex data transformations using Groovy and message mapping for different scenarios
• Documentation: Creating detailed technical documentation of integration flows configurations and best practices to ensure clear communication across teams
• Groovy script and Message mapping
• Knowledge of SAP CPI Design Best practices Error Handling Mechanism SAP CPI Architecture
• API Management: Experience in integrating with SAP API Management and handling API Gateway configuration
• Adapters Configuration: Expertise in configuring adapters such as SOAP REST SFTP SuccessFactors and IDOC
• Performance Tuning and Optimization: Ability to identify performance bottlenecks in integration scenarios and optimize CPI flows
• Drive the overall SAP integration strategy and architecture across business units ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives
• Mentor and upskill junior and senior team members fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
• Engage with executive stakeholders to align integration solutions with broader business goals and priorities
• Evaluate and introduce emerging SAP technologies and best practices to maintain a leading-edge integration landscape
• Establish and enforce integration governance standards and quality assurance processes to ensure robust scalable and secure solutions
• Version Control: Familiarity with version control for integration artifacts
• Transport: Experience with transport integration and continuous deployment using solution manager
• Good understanding on the integration patterns best practices cloud and on-premises application integration concepts
• Work on complex mapping transformation resolving technical issues adapter configurations
• Security Integration: Knowledge of securing integration processes including OAuth2 SAML certificates and tokens
• SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) - Cloud Foundry would be beneficial
• Extensive experience leading large-scale SAP CPI/BTP projects and complex migration initiatives delivering robust and future-ready integration solutions
• Recognized expertise in SAP integration security compliance and risk management with a strong focus on safeguarding data and ensuring regulatory adherence
• Exposure to multi-cloud and hybrid integration architectures
• Experience with SAP roadmap planning and digital transformation initiatives

Technical Knowledge

• SAP PI/PO (Process Integration/Orchestration)
• Cloud Integration with third-party systems
• OAuth and SAML for secure integrations
• SAP ABAP
• ABAP and backend SAP ODATA Services
• SAP Cloud System
• SAP Cloud Connector
• Node JS
• SQL database queries
• SAP CAP (Cloud Application Programming)
• JMS Queue background
• SAP Cloud Connector
• SAP ECC SAP Business Technology Platform (Cloud Foundry) SAP BW ARIBA SuccessFactors Fieldglass Groovy scripts.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Bcom/IS/IT ENG/BSc/Com Science related degree

Preferred Certifications

Preferred certifies in more than multiple SAP module /ASAP certification

Minimum Experience Level

10 years plus SAP Functional experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies