Principal IT Technologist - SAP ABAP

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Develops, documents, and configures systems specifications that conform to defined architecture standards, address business requirements, and processes.
• Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting hardware and software compliance and security standards.
• Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements and characteristics of overall system.
• Establishes and documents system design, parameters and formats, ensures hardware and software systems functionality, performance and compatibility, and coordinates and/or modifies system parameters in terms of configurations, such as existing and projected computer capacity and capabilities.
• Actively identifies system functionality or performance deficiencies, executes changes to existing systems, and tests functionality of the system to correct deficiencies and maintain more effective data handling, data integrity, conversion, input/output requirements, and storage.
• May document testing and maintenance of system updates, modifications, and configurations.
• May act as a liaison with key technology vendor technologists or other business functions.
• Function Specific: Strategically design technology solutions that meets the needs and goals of the company and its customers/users.
• Leverages platform process expertise to assess if existing standard platform functionality will solve a business problem or customization solution would be required.
• Gather and prioritize integration requirements.
• Test the quality of a product and its ability to perform a task or solve a problems.
• Perform basic maintenance and performance optimization procedures in each of the primary operating systems.
• Technology: Using computational thinking to define technological solutions to real life problems.
• Design technology that allows for the optimal user experience and broad accessibility.
• Ability to document detailed technical system specifications based on business system requirements.
  Differential factors include,
• SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.
• Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes.
• Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.
• Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results.
• May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.
• Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation.
• Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
• Implements solutions to problems.
• Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels.
• May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.
• Leadership and Talent Management: Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
• Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
May have broad knowledge of project management.

• 14+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 12+ years with an advanced degree
• Strong experience in independently handling end to end lifecycle of development objects in Greenfield & Brownfield SAP S/4HANA Implementation projects
• Have knowledge of handling custom code utilization and able to transform custom code from ECC to S/4HANA
• Should be responsible for understanding various business requirements, translating them into technical designs, development, unit testing, supporting documentation and work along with functional, Integration and Business stakeholders
• Good understanding of SAP SD/MM/FI/CO modules and able to navigate well through these process areas for technical requirements gathering or testing activities
• Strong Experience in S/4 HANA Implementations/Conversions, HANA Architecture, CDS Views & Annotations, AMDPs, Custom Code Remediation and working on Eclipse ADT
• Good expertise in SAP UI5 Framework, Fiori, Fiori Elements and Fiori Dashboards
• Development experience in BTP architecture and its services, Side-by-side extensions (CAP), Restful Application Programming (RAP), SAP Cloud Foundry, and Tools experience in SAP BAS, and GitHub
• Extensive working knowledge in OData, Gateway services & troubleshooting using standard debugging tools/process
• Good understanding of SAP and Non-SAP integrations and able to work with the technology vendors/providers to ensure timely delivery and quality of development.
• Must adhere to SAP ABAP NW 7.5 syntax & coding standards, and proficient with performing various ATC Variants
• Experience in Web Services, BRF+ and AIF frameworks
• Experience in Reports (SALV), Interfaces (ALE-Idocs & Proxies), Conversions, Enhancements (Exits, BADIs and BTEs) , Forms(Smart Forms and Adobe Forms) and Workflow
• Working knowledge in OOPS and Class Builder
• Experience in Upgrades (SPAU&SPDD), Regression Testing & Performance
• Analyse and troubleshoot complex issues related to SAP ECC, S4 ABAP, Fiori and BTP applications
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Nice to Have previous Medical devices and/or Pharma experience
• Nice to have experience of working on Production Planning, and Plant Maintenance modules
• Good to know Bitbucket
• Good Knowledge in Security and Authorization Objects
• Possess a deep understanding of SAP integration methodologies and principles
• Good to have SAP Certifications in ABAP and related technologies

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

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Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people. 
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