SAP Ariba Consultant

Position: SAP Ariba Consultant

Location: Charlotte NC (Day 1 Onsite & F2F Interview is mandatory)

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Job Description:

• Deliver on ongoing product and technical improvements in SAP Ariba Suite.
• Ensure completion of technical deliverables for Ariba Source to Settle as outlined by Product Owner/Application Owner.
• Should be able to analyse and recommend technical architecture technical design and development.
• Conduct requirements analysis with Business Stakeholders.
• Assume responsibility for planning and executing implementation/ Rollout/ Support activities.
• Own and drive issue detection and resolution.
• Independently address complex production issues.
• Troubleshoot complex technology problems and drive root cause analyses.
• Act as contact for business units for application support and production issue analysis.
• Maintains understanding of end-to-end data flows for applications including business logic and controls.
• Working with other applications in the Source to Pay portfolio including but not limited to RelishIQ Vertex Tax engine SOVOS eInvoicing etc.
• Understand and enforce our policies in place to protect information and system stability.
• Work with other technology teams within the organization to deliver project outcomes
• Track application and batch performance and develop plans for remediation of issues.
• Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met.
• Strengthen the teams knowledge of AI functionality in Source to Pay functional area
• Follow application management and governance practices and work on administrative/documentation requirements per WF policies and compliance.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of application development and/or implementation experience
• 5 years of application production support experience
• 5 years of Ariba On demand Implementation experience.
• 5 years of SAP Ariba Solutions (SLP Sourcing Contract Management P2P Guided Buying and Ariba Network) experience.
• Ariba P2P master data and transactional data interface experience.
• Ariba Supplier Lifecycle Performance experience and usage of Ariba open APIs.
• Common Ariba practices like manual file upload/download integration monitoring Approval flow setup Integration setup.
• Integration of SAP Ariba Solutions with ERP including Master Data Integration Transfer of documents Cross system reporting.
• Experience with code documentation API documentation maintaining playbooks and providing timely progress updates.
• Should be able to conduct technical design reviews and code review
• Experience with one or more of the following will be a plus:
  • Skills in Java Javascript XML and JSON
  • Ariba APIs
  • Fiddler or Postman
  • Web services integration
  • cXML
  • Writing SQL queries

Desired Qualifications

• RESTful or SOAP web services experience.
• SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Internet security protocol experience.
• Autosys experience.
• NDM experience.
• Knowledge of compliance and third-party risk for suppliers.
• Contract Compliance
• PeopleSoft ERP/Experience working with non-SAP back-end ERP is a bonus.
• Agile Scrum practices and working in Agile teams