Associate Principal - SAP

ROLE: Senior SAP ABAP CDS Consultant
ROLE DESCRIPTION
The CDS ABAP Senior Consultant is a critical role responsible for developments covering all aspects of development life cycle including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, implementation, configuration and support for SAP systems including integration with non SAP applications in a project in S4 HANA environment. 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architecting, designing and helping successful implementations of SAP S4 HANA in customer organizations.
• Liaising with Delivery Teams to help grow the Business around upcoming technical features in line with Organizational strategy and goals.
• Mentoring Junior ABAP or Technical Team members within the Organization.
• Drive with building Assets and Accelerators in SAP ABAP and other niche technical areas.
• Ability to devise and lead Go To Market strategies to assist Sales and Alliance teams in expanding Bristlecone’s Technical footprint globally.
• Build Assets and Accelerators to reduce the overall cost to serve.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• 8 plus years of ABAP Development experience, at least 3 years in SAP ABAP CDS.
• At least 3 end to end implementations not including Rollouts.
• ABAP Certification would be an added advantage.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Worked in real time environment in HANA.
• Worked on ABAP on HANA with experience at tech lead level.
• Expertise in Calculation Views, CDS and ODATA.
• Extensive experience in AMDP classes.
• Aware on Transport mechanism for HANA artefacts.
• Understanding of HANA architecture.
• Understanding of inmemory concept.
• Expertise in Core ABAP Reports, Module Pool, Smart forms, OOP.
• Expertise in Enhancement and Modification Framework.
• Understanding of Workflow and Adobe forms.
• Operations architecture Backup and Recovery, Disaster recover, High availability etc.
• Infrastructure architecture Sizing, virtualization, desktops, networks etc.
• System landscape design and management experience in operations and project scenarios.
• Plan and manage SAP systems maintenance schedule.
• Involved in planning and testing of the Development Objects.
• Manage all SAP technical changes.
• Deep understanding of SAP best practice on Backup and Recovery.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Team Handling.
• Client Communication. 

SOFT SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills, verbal as well as written.
• Positive attitude with flexibility and maturity to work in a challenging client environment.
• Should have ability to manage customer expectations and deal diligently as per the need of the situation. 
• Willing to go the extra mile to achieve organizational goals.

ABOUT US:

Bristlecone is the leading provider of AI-powered application transformation services for the connected supply chain. We empower our customers with speed, visibility, automation, and resiliency – to thrive on change.

Our transformative solutions in Digital Logistics, Cognitive Manufacturing, Autonomous Planning, Smart Procurement and Digitalization are positioned around key industry pillars and delivered through a comprehensive portfolio of services spanning digital strategy, design and build, and implementation across a range of technology platforms.

Bristlecone is ranked among the top ten leaders in supply chain services by Gartner. We are headquartered in San Jose, California, with locations across North America, Europe and Asia, and over 2,500 consultants. Bristlecone is part of the $19.4 billion Mahindra Group.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Bristlecone is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

INFORMATION SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand and adhere to Information Security policies, guidelines and procedure, practice them for protection of organizational data and Information System.
• Take part in information security training and act while handling information.
• Report all suspected security and policy breach to InfoSec team or appropriate authority (CISO).
• Understand and adhere to the additional information security responsibilities as part of the assigned job role.