SAP PI/PO Managing Consultant

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• SAP PI/PO/CPI consultant with 10+years of experience in various implementations, rollout, and support, encompassing a wide range of skillset, roles and industry verticals including Tax Revenue management, Human Resource, Workday, Manufacturing etc. 
• SAP Process Orchestration (SAP PO): Mastery of SAP PO . This includes understanding its architecture, components, and functionalities such as Enterprise Service Repository (ESR), Integration Directory (ID), and Business Process Management (BPM).
• Integration Technologies: Strong knowledge of various integration technologies supported by SAP PO such as XML, SOAP, REST, JDBC, JMS, RFC, etc.
• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): Understanding of ESB concepts and how SAP PO serves as an ESB within the SAP landscape.
• SAP Systems Knowledge: Familiarity with different SAP systems (e.g., SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP CRM) and their integration patterns.
• Integration Patterns: Understanding of different integration patterns like synchronous/asynchronous, point-to-point, publish-subscribe, etc., and their implementation within SAP PO.
• Mapping and Transformation: Proficiency in SAP Integration Builder for mapping and transforming data between different formats (e.g., XML, JSON, IDoc, flat files).
• Java Development: Knowledge of Java for custom development within SAP PO, especially for custom adapter modules and Java mappings.
• Security: Understanding of security concepts and best practices in SAP PO, including SSL/TLS, SFTP, user authentication, and authorization.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Ability to monitor message flows, analyze errors, and troubleshoot issues within SAP PO using tools like SAP Solution Manager or third-party monitoring tools.
• SAP NetWeaver: Familiar with SAP NetWeaver platform and its components, as SAP PO is built on top of NetWeaver.
• Documentation and Communication: Strong documentation skills to capture integration requirements, design specifications, and configuration details. Effective communication skills to interact with stakeholders and team members.
• Continuous Learning: SAP landscape is constantly evolving, so staying updated with the latest SAP PO releases, features, and best practices.

• Solution Design: Analyze business requirements and design integration solutions using SAP PO. This involves understanding the existing systems landscape, identifying integration touchpoints, and defining integration patterns and architectures.
• Development: Configure integration scenarios within SAP PO using tools like Enterprise Service Repository (ESR) for service development, Integration Directory (ID) for configuration, and Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) for process modeling. Develop mappings, transformations, and adapter configurations as per requirements.
• Interface Development: Build interfaces to enable communication between different systems and applications, including SAP and non-SAP systems. This involves developing mappings, message routing rules, and custom adapter modules as needed.
• Testing: Conduct unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing of integration scenarios to ensure they meet functional and non-functional requirements. Collaborate with functional teams and business users to validate the solution.
• Deployment: Plan and execute the deployment of integration scenarios from development to production environments. Ensure proper version management and transport of objects between different SAP PO landscapes.
• Monitoring and Support: Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor message flows, system health, and performance of integration scenarios. Provide support for incident resolution, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Documentation: Maintaining comprehensive documentation of integration solutions, including design specifications, configuration guides, test cases, and operational procedures. Ensuring documentation is up-to-date and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
• Training and Knowledge Transfer: Conducted training sessions for end-users, administrators, and support teams on using and maintaining the integration solutions built with SAP PO. Facilitate knowledge transfer to ensure smooth handover and continuity of operations.
• Continuous Improvement: Staying updated with the latest SAP PO releases, features, and best practices. Continuously assess and optimize existing integration solutions to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborating with business stakeholders, IT teams, and third-party vendors to understand business requirements, align integration solutions with business goals, and manage expectations regarding timelines and deliverables.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, the ability to clearly and concisely communicate with others.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Understanding of business processes for focus areas or multiple modules.
• Ability to do research and perform detailed tasks.
• Strong analytical skills.

• Aptitude for working in a team environment; problem-solving skills, creative thinking, communicating clearly and empathetically, strong time management, and ability to collaborate with all levels of staff.  
• Ability to explain ideas and concepts to other project team members and to client personnel.
• Has a solid foundation for consulting “soft” skills necessary for client engagements and may act as a coach for others related to these soft skills.
• Ability to interpret requirements and apply SAP best practices.
• Ability to identify upsell opportunities and assist in the management of scope.
• Create professional relationships with clients
• Develop new professional relationships for additional business or possible new consultants
• Help develop overall marketing messages
• Communicates project resource requirements to staffing coordinator/clients
• Ensures quality implementation (works with QA program)
• May participate in Pre-Sales as part of the client pursuit team

• Seeking ways to increase the project team’s effectiveness
• Acts as a mentor to Consultants and Sr. Consultants
• Works well as a member of a team
• Seeking ways to increase their level of contribution and therefore team effectiveness

• Development of consultants to meet your project’s requirements
• Maintains knowledge of focus area at an expert level (known as the consultant’s consultant)
• Give effective feedback (Immediate and Evaluations) 

• Evaluates and design application and/or technical architectures
• Leads team effort in developing solutions for projects
• Completes assignments within budget, meets project deadlines, makes and keeps sensible commitments to client and team
• Meets billing efficiency targets, and complies with all administrative responsibilities in a timely and effective manner
• Keeps project management appraised of project direction and client concerns