Job Description

Main Tasks / Scope of Work

Consulting tasks
 Guides the middleware DevOps team together with the product manager and product architect
 Create the Product Roadmap and align it with the organizational and internal Business Partner goals
 Tackle with the Product Manager product-related impediments to provide the best possible environment for the team to perform at its best.
 Consults the BPI team in technical application questions during the solution design and functional specification phase
 Provides effort estimation for realization and contributes to project planning
 Creates Technical Design Document supported by the Business
 Performs configuration and development in systems (e.g. customizing in SAP and / or KAFKA and SAP HANA DB, or in technology stack e.g. java)
 Manage development activities (internal and external resource planning for development)
 Supports testing and service transition
 Collaborates with support team to identify areas of process implementation issues /continuous improvement
 Translates stakeholder requirements into concrete specifications for different Integration technologies, like SAP CPI, Kafka, API-Management, use of technology stack using java

Software engineering tasks:
 Focus is software design and software architecture of components and applications.
 Independent development, enhancement, and migration of applications / modules / interfaces / tools / communication solutions
 Integration and testing of software components within the existing application landscape.
 Quality assurance and documentation of software developments.

Job Requirements
Focus on the minimum requirements to carry out the work –
you might want to point out “additional plus/nice to have skills” that are not mandatory
Education  Master's degree in computer science or STEM major with 4-6 years of IT or related field experience OR
 Bachelor's degree in computer science or STEM major with 6-8 years of IT or related field experience OR
 Diploma or comparable training with 6+ years of professional experience in IT/application development
Work Experience  Minimum 6 years related working experience, thereof 2 years as a digital product owner.
 Experiencing Agile way of working or agile implementation approach
 Work experience in an international company is a plus
Technical & Professional Knowledge (mandatory and nice to have) Our main requirements:
 Experience as a digital Product Owner
 Experience with integration tools like SAP CPI, Trading Partner Management, Integration Advisor
 Experience in different integration scenarios (orders, invoices, etc.)
 Familiar with Azure DevOps (or GitHub or similar)
 Experience in operating/supporting systems as 2nd or 3rd level support
(root cause analysis and provide solutions for production and development issues).
 Message monitoring to ensure solutions are performed as expected
 Document test plans and complete unit testing of developed object
 Participate in collaboration on break/fixes, enhancements, and projects
 Broad overview of integration technologies esp. regarding SAP

Personal traits:
 You can demonstrate fluent communication skills in English (spoken and written)
 Well-developed sense of teamwork in an international DevOps team with strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication and conflict resolution skills.
 Business acumen with focus on business strategy, product management and cost/benefit management
 Technical consulting skill with a focus on architecture and standardization
 Ambitious, proactive & entrepreneurial character
 Highly developed sense of self-responsibility
 High customer- and service-orientation
 Time flexibility to work across different time zones

Nice to have:
 Familiar with EDI, SAP IDOC
 Experience in any of the following SAP S/4 modules SD, MM or TM
 Familiar with Kafka publish-subscribe principles
 Experience in Kafka connectors and integration scenarios on different hyperscalers
 Experience in transformation tools like KSQL Streams
 Experience in SAP SLT (or other ETL tools)
 Experience with API Management, SAP HANA DB
 Experiences in AI supported coding and coding of AI agents / AI based communication
 Experience in Cloud Big Data technologies and architectures within AZURE or AWS
 Experience in Java, Scala, Python, MySQL
 Familiar with event-driven microservices
 Certifications in agile, SAP, Hyperscalers
Language Proficiency  Fluent spoken and written English proficiency