SAP SME Consultant

Job Description: SAP SME Consultant
Location : Neenah in Wisconsin (Onsite)
Experience: 12+

Key Responsibilities

Understand technical specifications that are written by ABAP developer on ABAP programs in ECC and S/4HANA systems.
Analyze technical specifications that are written to reverse engineer the custom Z-tables across modules (FI, MM, SD, HR, etc.).
Collaborate with functional teams to understand business logic and data dependencies.
Prepare comprehensive technical documentation including:
oData extraction logic

oField-level mappings

oBusiness rule interpretation

oSource-to-target lineage

Responsible to review the technical specification document and ask the right clarifications such that data engineers could then use the technical specification to develop data lake ETL routines.
 

Required Skills & Experience

Core ABAP (ECC & S/4HANA) experience to review and validate technical specifications:

Classical & OO ABAP programming experience
ALV Reports (Classical and OO)
BDC, BAPI, RFC, SmartForms, Adobe Forms
User Exits, Customer Exits, BADIs
Function Modules, Modularization, Macros

Advanced ABAP (S/4HANA-centric) experience to review and validate technical specifications:

CDS Views (Basic & Composite)
AMDP (ABAP Managed Database Procedures)
OData Services and Fiori integration
ABAP RESTful Programming Model (RAP)
Core Data Services annotations
Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF)

Data Handling & Extraction experience to review and validate technical specifications:

Z-table extraction with joins, filters, delta logic
Performance tuning of SELECT statements
Open SQL and Native SQL usage
Data dictionary object creation (Z tables, views, domains, data elements)
Handling clustered and pooled tables (ECC legacy)

Documentation & Technical Design

Technical Specification Document (TSD) preparation, review and validation
Field-level mapping and source-to-target lineage
Business logic annotation and transformation rules
Functional-to-technical traceability

Preferred Qualifications
8-10 years of SAP ABAP experience with at least 3 years in S/4HANA.
Experience in ECC to S/4HANA development & migration projects.
Good understanding of FI, CO, SD, MM, PP & SRM processes and modules.
Exposure to BI/ BW is an added advantage